Marye Anne Payne Fox (9 December 1947 – 9 May 2021) was an American physical organic chemist and university administrator.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences,[2] Fox served as president of the scientific research society Sigma Xi.

Even as a university administrator, she maintained an active research program in the fields of organic photochemistry and electrochemistry.

Miami President Donna Shalala delayed her university's acceptance of the ACC invitation to the last possible day explaining "We had numbers on Boston College-Virginia Tech.

"[8] The ensuing delay forced the ACC to spend the 2004–5 academic year as an 11-team conference, one shy of the dozen required by the NCAA for the ACC to hold a lucrative championship football game, and resulted in Boston College playing a "lame duck" year in the Big East.

[9] Media reports suggested Chancellor Fox, a University of Notre Dame trustee, may have cast her vote against Boston College to provide time for the ACC to consider extending membership to the Fighting Irish.

In the same year, and in spite of the faculty's censure vote, the NCSU Board of Trustees named a building after her, the Marye Anne Fox Science Teaching Laboratory.