Pauline von Mallinckrodt, SCC (3 June 1817 - 30 April 1881) was a German noblewoman, Roman Catholic professed religious and the foundress of the Sisters of Christian Charity.

Born into an aristocratic Mallinckrodt family as the daughter of a Lutheran father and Catholic mother, from her adolescence she began to tend to the blind and sick.

This venture expanded into what became a religious congregation which spread at a rapid pace; she herself traveled to a range of places to oversee its growth and development.

[2] Upon her return from Switzerland her parents wanted her to integrate into aristocratic circles and, despite finding social functions a distasteful affair, she did so.

In 1840 her father retired from public service to his manor at Boeddekken near Paderborn and it was at this stage she entertained notions of becoming a Vincentian Sister.

[4] From this developed an institution for blind children who were provided a home in a former Capuchin convent where she took up residence after the death of her father in 1842; she was at his bedside as he died.

It spread at a rapid pace that in the time before the Kulturkampf (1871–78) - which saw a brief suspension of its growth - it ran 20 establishments and had 250 members in various parts of the nation.

Upon his death in 1879 she accompanied his remains in secret across the border to Paderborn where the bishop was buried with full solemn honors.

[4][1] On 25 April 1881 she caught a chill and a fever as her condition grew worse - her sisters confined her to bed but she preferred to rest on a sofa.

[2] Her religious order owns and operates the "Haus Pauline von Mallinckrodt" retirement home in Paderborn.

The "Mallinckrodt Scholars Program" for undergraduates at the "Ann Ida Gannon, BVM, Center for Women and Leadership" at Loyola University Chicago is named in her honor and focuses on developing leadership reflecting Mallinckrodt's spirit of compassion and action in its students.

Pope John Paul II approved her life of heroic virtue and named her as Venerable on 13 January 1983.