Naomi A.H. Millard

Naomi Adeline Helen Millard, née Bokenham (16 July 1914, Green Point, Cape Town – 12 June 1997) was a South African biologist, one of the founders of the Zoological Society of South Africa and the Zoologica Africana Journal.

Life Naomi Adeline Helen Bokenham was on 16 July 1914 in Green Point, Cape Town. She graduated the Wynberg Girls' High School and entered the University of Cape Town in 1932, completing a master's degree in 1935. By 1952, she was awarded a University Fellowship for the number and quality of her scientific publications. In 1967, Millard published a work Hydrois from the south-west Indian Ocean. Annals of the South African Museum.

In 1971, she retired from the University and joined the staff of the South African Museum as marine biologist studying South African hydroids. During her career she described over 100 South African taxa.

In 1980, Millard was awarded the Gold Medal of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa.