Gladys Bustamante

Gladys Maud, Lady Bustamante ( Longbridge; 8 March 1912 – 25 July 2009) was a Jamaican workers' and women's rights activist and wife of Sir Alexander Bustamante, Jamaica's first Prime Minister. She was a prominent member of the Jamaican trade union movement, and was affectionately known as "Lady B.".

She has been called the "Mother of the Nation" due to her relationship with many of Jamaica's founders. In her memoir, The Memoirs of Lady Bustamante, she described her birth as a "welcome baby", writing "Being born out of wedlock was not a major issue in rural Jamaica then." She was raised by her grandparents in rural Jamaica following her mother's move to Cuba when she was 3 years old. Bustamante and Longbridge formed a long personal and professional relationship that would last for decades. She served as his secretary through his years as a trade unionist and as a politician, until he became Prime Minister of Jamaica in 1962. That year they married. As the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union was the largest organization in Jamaica at the time, She was moved to the National Indoor Sports Centre for viewing on 7 August 2009.

Gladys Bustamante was interred alongside her husband, Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante, at the National Heroes Park in Kingston, Jamaica.