Dorothy Owen MBE (nee Williamson) (1920-2002) was a medieval historian and archivist. She published extensively on medieval church and administrative history and produced editions of manuscripts. She worked in Lincolnshire Archives, Lambeth Palace archives, was Curator of Ecclesiastical Archives and then Keeper of the University Archives at Cambridge, where she also taught palaeography and diplomatic. She was Editor and later President of Lincoln Record Society, and Chairman of the British Records Association.