Sr. Dr. Maura Lynch (10 September 1938 – 9 December 2017) was an Irish doctor, a nun, and proponent of women's health.

Lynch entered the convent of the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM) just before her 18th birthday in Clonmel, County Tipperary in 1956.

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] In Angola, then known as Portuguese West Africa, Lynch worked as the medical director of the hospital at Chiulo.

In Nigeria Lynch learned about the repair of obstetrical fistulae which became a major focus of her work.

However less than a month later on the planned date of her golden jubilee celebration of her life in Africa, 9 December, she died in Kampala Hospital and was buried in Masaka, Uganda.