Dame Lucy Ruth Kirk DBE (née Miller, 28 April 1922 – 20 March 2000) was a New Zealand prominent anti-abortion campaigner.

[2] Her husband worked at Firestone (now Bridgestone) in Papanui and in the evenings and weekend, built their house in Kaiapoi, where land was cheaper.

[4][5] Her husband died in August 1974,[2] and in the 1975 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for public services.

[6] Three months after her husband's death, she put gifts given to him by foreign leaders up for auction, which sparked some public debate.

[1] Kirk largely withdrew from public life in later years, but was famously remembered for ringing a Christchurch talkback radio show in 1993 to voice her fury at Helen Clark's ousting of Mike Moore as Labour party leader.