Mary Estelle White (1908–1977) was a Canadian classicist and university Professor.

She was the first editor of the journal Phoenix, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

[1] Mary White graduated with her bachelor's degree at Queen's University, Kingston in 1929, having specialized in Greek and Latin, and quickly followed this with a post-graduate programme in the United Kingdom where she studied Literae Humaniores at St. Hugh's College, Oxford University.

After this contract became permanent in 1946, she was a founding member of both the Classical Association of Canada and its journal Phoenix, which she edited from 1946 to 1964.

[1] White eventually gained an endowed professorship in 1963 and, in 1965, became the head of the Graduate Department of Classical Studies for the University of Toronto.