Samantha Joan Nutt CM OOnt (born October 1969) is a Canadian physician and philanthropist who is the founder and president of War Child Canada.

Her 2011 book Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid details her work over the course of fifteen years in some of the most devastated regions of the world.

Nutt has worked with children and their families on the front-line of many crises including Iraq, Afghanistan, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Darfur, South Sudan, Burundi, northern Uganda, Ethiopia and the Thai-Burmese border.

[1] Born in Toronto in October 1969, Nutt lived near the town of Durban, South Africa, from the ages one through six years, before she and her family returned to the city.

Her father was a children's shoe designer and his work took the family to Brazil for six months when Nutt was in her early teens.

[6] Nutt has written for Maclean's magazine and The Globe and Mail covering human rights, foreign policy, and war-related issues.