
Cynthia Cockburn (1934 – 12 September 2019) was a British academic, feminist journalist, and peace activist. She was active in the international women's peace movement. Cockburn was a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at City University London and honorary professor in the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick.
Cockburn was widely published in academic journals, including in Feminist Review, Gender & Development, Journal of Classical Sociology, Peace in Process.
Cockburn died on 13 September 2019 of thyroid cancer at her London home at the age of 85.