Nellie Euphemia Coad (15 October 1883 – 6 September 1974) was a New Zealand teacher, community leader, women's advocate and writer.

[1] By 1893 the family had returned to New Zealand, living in the Aro Valley suburb of Wellington (then called Mitchelltown), and Coad's mother was one of the signatories of the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition.

As a young teacher she gave evidence before the 1912 Education Commission, chaired by Mark Cohen, and argued in favour of better salaries for female schoolteachers.

She argued that girls should receive a good general education, rather than being required to specialise early which would limit their choices of career.

[2] After retiring from teaching at the end of 1938, Coad toured Europe, eventually living in England, and served as an air raid warden in London during World War II.