Professor Susan Povey FMedSci (24 April 1942 – 11 January 2019), was a British geneticist.

She was educated at Notre Dame Collegiate School for Girls, and then entered Girton College, Cambridge.

[1] Povey graduated with a degree from the University of Cambridge in 1967, after reading Genetics in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos.

She then completed a diploma in tropical medicine, and spent a year in Algeria working for Save the Children.

[2] She was Haldane Professor of Human Genetics, at University College London from 2000 to 2007,[3] becoming Emeritus on retirement.