Yolanda Murphy (née Bukowska, April 10, 1925 – June 3, 2016) was a Polish-born American cultural anthropologist who was the co-author of classic anthropology text Women of the Forest with her husband, Robert F. Murphy.

This text was based on field work done in 1952 among the Mundurucu Indians of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

When she was still a young child, she and her widowed mother moved to the United States.

They also did work in the western United States in the 1950s, among the Shoshone and Bannock peoples, in connection with a land claims case.

[3] Bukowska met her husband Robert F. Murphy while they were graduate students in at Columbia University.