Rose Whitty, (November 24, 1831 – May 4, 1911) was an Irish Dominican religious sister and founder of convents.
Whitty entered St. Catherine's Convent, Sion Hill, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, in her 19th year, 25 March 1849.
Seventeen years later, at the request of Bishop Patrick Moran, who then had charge of the Eastern Vicariate of South Africa, she with five others began their work at Port Elizabeth, 23 November 1867.
The diamond jubilee of her religious profession was celebrated in 1910, and a Mother Rose scholarship was founded as an appropriate memorial of her long devotion to the work of education.
Whitty's good health continued till within a month or two of her death in her 80th year.