Miriam Cohen (Hebrew: מרים כהן; born October 1941 died October 2023) was an Israeli mathematician and a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev whose main areas of research are Hopf algebras, quantum groups and Noncommutative rings.

[1][2] Miriam Cohen (née Hirsch) was born in Ramat Gan, British Mandate of Palestine.

Her parents Dr. Hanna and Jusin Hirsch fled Nazi Germany to Palestine in 1939.

In 1978 the family moved for idealistic reasons from Herzliya Pituach to the development town of Yeruham and lived there for 10 years.

In 1983–5 Cohen was a visiting Associate Professor at the University of Southern California and at UCLA in Los Angeles.