Rosemary Brown PC OC OBC (née Wedderburn; June 17, 1930 – April 26, 2003) was a Canadian politician.

She worked on improving "services for the elderly, the disadvantaged, immigrants and people with disabilities" [4] as well as prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race or sex.

[5] In 1975, she became the first black woman to run for the leadership of a Canadian federal party (and only the second woman, after Mary Walker-Sawka), finishing a strong second (with 40.1% of the votes on the fourth and final ballot) to Ed Broadbent in that year's New Democratic Party leadership election.

A recreation centre in Burnaby, British Columbia was named in honour of Brown & was completed in April 2024.

It also displays a public art piece, "Gliding Edge", by local BC artist Jinn Anholt.