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.^[1]

Naomi Adeline Helen Bokenham was on 16 July 1914 in Green Point, Cape Town.^[2] She graduated the Wynberg Girls’ High School and entered the University of Cape Town in 1932, completing a master's degree in 1935.^[2]

In 1938, Bokenham married Arthur Millard and later settled in Pillans Road, Rosebank, raising a son and a daughter.^[2]

In 1942, Millard was awarded a Ph.D. degree, and in 1946, she was appointed to the permanent staff as a lecturer.^[2]

In 1951, Millard published Observations and experiments on fouling organisms in table Bay Harbour, south Africa in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa.^[3] By 1952, she was awarded a University Fellowship for the number and quality of her scientific publications.^[2] In 1958, Millard was promoted to a senior lectureship and in 1963 became a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.^[2]

From 1961 to 1972 Millard was an Honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of South Africa Executive Council.^[4] In 1967, Millard published a work Hydrois from the south-west Indian Ocean. Annals of the South African Museum.^[5]

In 1971, she retired from the University and joined the staff of the South African Museum as marine biologist studying South African hydroids.^[2]

In 1972-1977 Millard was a Journal Editor of Zoological Society of South Africa Executive Council.^[4] Another Millard's work on hydroids was published in 1977 - Hydroids from the Kerguelen and Crozet shelves, collected by the cruise MD.03 of the Marion-Dufresne. Ann. S. Afr. Mus.^[6] During her career she described over 100 South African taxa.^[7]

In 1980, Millard was awarded the Gold Medal of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa.^[2]

Naomi A. H. Millard died on 12 June 1997.^[2]

• 1951 - Observations and experiments on fouling organisms in table Bay Harbour, South Africa.
• 1967 - Hydrois from the south-west Indian Ocean. Annals of the South African Museum.
• 1977 - Hydroids from the Kerguelen and Crozet shelves, collected by the cruise MD.03 of the Marion-Dufresne. Ann. S. Afr. Mus.

• Gymnangium millardi Ronowicz sp. nov.^[8]