Olive Bernardine White (May 28, 1899 – September 9, 1983) was an American writer, college professor and longtime Dean of Women at Bradley University in Illinois.

Her older sister Helen C. White was also an English professor, at the University of Wisconsin.

White won Radcliffe's Caroline Wilby Prize twice, and was the only person to do so, when she won in 1918 for her undergraduate thesis, "The Verse Translations of John Dryden",[5][6] and shared the prize with Eleanor Lansing Dulles in 1926, for her dissertation "The Background of English Renaissance in 15th Century Oxford".

[17] "Although the book proceeds slowly and takes considerable more time in telling its story than is necessary," noted one reviewer of the latter novel, "it is not without its good points.

[21] There is a tradition on the Bradley campus that White's ghost haunts Constance Hall, once a women's dormitory, now the music building.