Rachel Selina Reynolds (née Pinkerton, 19 December 1838 – 21 August 1928) was a New Zealand social worker and community leader.

[2] On their return, they purchased a large hillside house in Dunedin, Montecillo and lived there for the next 40 years, raising a family of nine children, four daughters and three sons.

She was also active in encouraging the University of Otago to admit women students, a goal which was also realised in 1871.

In the 1870s Reynolds worked with Presbyterian minister Rutherford Waddell to provide food, clothes and other welfare services to poor women and children in Dunedin.

[1] Reynolds devoted a large amount of time to addressing the needs of children, leading to the opening of New Zealand's first free kindergarten in 1889.