Norma Ford Walker (September 3, 1893 – August 9, 1968) was a Canadian scientist who pioneered the development of medical genetics as a research field.

Norma Henrietta Carswell Ford was born September 3, 1893, at St Thomas, Ontario to Norman W. Ford and Margaret Henrietta Dyke[3] She entered into a BA degree at the University of Toronto in 1914 and completed her PhD in zoology there in 1923, under the supervision of Edmund Murton Walker.

[2] Her early work was in invertebrate zoology, and in addition to her thesis (completed in 1923), she published several papers on the physiology and behaviour of the Grylloblatteria and the sarcophagid fly, Wohlfahrtia[5][6][7][8] In 1937, she was co-principal investigator on a study tasked with determining whether the Dionne Quintuplets were truly genetically identical,[9] and left entomology behind.

Between 1937 and her death she made many valuable contributions to the study of human genetics, and became a globally-renowned expert on multiple births.

[10] She taught Oliver Smithies genetics in her lab[11] and with him, demonstrated that haptoglobin types were inherited[12][13] In 1966, she was awarded an honorary degree from Queen's University, Kingston for her scientific achievements.