Pamela Susan Courson (December 22, 1946 – April 25, 1974) was the long-term companion of Jim Morrison, singer of the Doors.

Courson and Jim Morrison met at the London Fog nightclub on the Sunset Strip in 1966, while she was an art student at Los Angeles City College.

In his 1998 memoir, Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors, keyboardist Ray Manzarek stated that Courson and a friend saw the band during their stint at the London Fog.

According to Morrison's will at the time, which stated that he was "an unmarried person", Courson was named his heir, and therefore in line to inherit his entire fortune.

Early in 1974, Morrison's will was executed as per his wishes, and Courson inherited his entire estate shortly before her own death in April of the same year.

Friend Diane Gardner is quoted as saying in the book Break on Through by Riordan and Prochnicky:Pam was one of the funniest people I ever met.

Former Doors manager Danny Sugerman became friendly with her in Los Angeles during this time and later wrote in Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess about an experience of taking quaaludes and snorting heroin with Courson.

[16] On April 25, 1974, Courson died of a heroin overdose on the living room couch at the Los Angeles apartment she shared with two male friends.

Jim Morrison's parents later contested the Coursons' executorship of the estate, leading to additional legal battles.

The stormy friendship between Courson, Morrison and actor Tom Baker is depicted in the stage play The Lizard King[19], written by Jay Jeff Jones, which was produced in Los Angeles in 1991.