Rebecca Wakefield née Brewin (19 August 1844 – 16 July 1873) was a British Methodist missionary wife who worked and died in what is now Kenya.

At Zanzibar Nellie Wakefield was born on 16 October 1870 and they made their new home in a stone built two room house.

Leopards would take their foal and goats and the ants and rats would eat away at woodwork including the loss of the mission's piano.

Her brother Robert wrote her biography, Memoirs of Rebecca Wakefield, wife of the Rev.

T. Wakefield, United Methodist Free Churches missionary in eastern Africa, which was published in 1876.