Olive Evelyn Smuts-Kennedy QSO (née Wright; 23 March 1925 – 19 December 2013) was an activist and local politician in Wellington, New Zealand.

[1] Her grandfather, Fortunatus Evelyn Wright was an early New Zealand settler, having arrived from England aboard the ship Samarang in 1852.

[6] In 1965 Smuts-Kennedy won a seat on the Wellington City Council on a Labour ticket which she was to hold until 1973 when she resigned.

[6] She was particularly opposed to the council passing an act to build a motorway through the Bolton Street Cemetery, arguing that the plan to bisect the cemetery for the Wellington Urban Motorway would destroy part of the city's heritage.

She said "What a sacrilege it would be if [the city] were all to be made so municipally trim as to take away its soul … [W]e have no ancient buildings and few early relics of a lasting character — the more reason to preserve what we have".