Kezhekapt Rukmini Menon

Kizhakkepat Rukmini Menon (6 September 1922 – 23 December 2009) was an Indian diplomat, and the second woman to be a career diplomat for the Indian Foreign Service. She was also the first female officer to be enrolled at India's National Defence College.

Career Menon was born in Kerala, and studied in Bengaluru. She completed her post-graduate education at Presidency College, Chennai, and the London School of Economics. She was the first woman officer to be enrolled in India's National Defence College, and the second woman to be a career diplomat in India, after C B Muthamma. In 1949, she started working in the High Commission of India in London, and joined the Indian Foreign Service, and served as the Indian ambassador to several countries, including Australia, Canada, Italy, Denmark, and Nigeria.