Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng MAE FIET[7] (born 25 October 1952) is a British computer scientist.

[8] Wendy Hall was born in west London and educated at Ealing Grammar School for Girls.

[5][2] Hall returned to the University of Southampton in 1984 to join the newly formed computer science group there, working in multimedia and hypermedia.

[14] In 2006, along with Tim Berners-Lee, Nigel Shadbolt[15] and Daniel Weitzner, Hall became a founding director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI).

[23] In 2020, she was appointed as Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute by the Nuffield Foundation – the organisation's independent funder, succeeding Alan Wilson.

[30] Her nomination for the Royal Society reads: Distinguished for her contribution to understanding the interactions of humans with large scale multimedia information systems.

[41] In February 2013, she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

In addition to over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles, Hall co-authored Four Internets with Kieron O'Hara and Vint Cerf in 2021.