Maud Worcester Makemson (September 16, 1891 – December 25, 1977) was an American astronomer, a specialist on archaeoastronomy, and director of Vassar Observatory.

In Japan, she taught three courses at Ochanomizu Women's University in Tokyo on the history of astronomy, "scientific reading," and "Shelly's lyrics.

"[7] Makemson's interest in non-Western astronomical knowledge resulted in several monographs, The Morning Star Rises: An Account of Polynesian Astronomy (1941),[8] The Astronomical Tables of the Maya (1943),[9] The Maya Correlation Problem (1946),[10] and The Book of the Jaguar Priest (1951, a translation of a sixteenth-century text).

She co-authored a textbook, Introduction to Astrodynamics (1960) with Robert M. L. Baker, Jr.[13][14] In the 1960s, she joined the Applied Research Laboratories of General Dynamics, to consult with NASA on lunar exploration.

Her son Donald E. Worcester (who used his mother's original surname) was an author and a history professor at Texas Christian University.