Sharon Rae Hovey Wilkin (July 1, 1941 – March 8, 2014) was an American vocational rehabilitation counselor and disability rights activist.

In 1958, as a teenaged exchange student from Chautauqua Central School, she survived a serious spinal injury after falling from an amusement park ride in Genk, Belgium, and was quadriplegic after that.

[7] She testified before a 1980 Congressional hearing in support of programs covering personal assistance services for federal employees, and was a member of the board of directors of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association.

[10] In 1965, Sharon Hovey married mathematician Jonathan Wilkin; they met in the disabled students' program at the University of Illinois.

In 1997, a shoulder injury necessitated her move into a motorized wheelchair, with other powered supports in her Vienna, Virginia home.