Georgina Kirby

Dame Georgina Kamiria Kirby (31 January 1936 – 11 June 2021) was a New Zealand Māori leader and women's advocate. She was a member of the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi. She attended Horohoro School, Rotorua High School, and the University of Auckland. She had a number of jobs in the 1950s and 1960s including being a junior assistant teacher at Whakarewarewa School from 1953 to 1954, a toll operator from 1955 to 1956, and a training officer from 1956 to 1963 with the New Zealand Post Office.

Kirby formed Māori Women's Development Incorporated to help Māori women who could not obtain loan grants.

Organisations The following list includes some of the organisations that Kirby was connected with:

Māori Education Fund, trustee In 1993, she was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal. In the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the Māori people.