Lydia Brown was an American missionary to the Hawaiian Kingdom. At the age of 54, Brown was sent to Hawaii by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to teach textiles to native Hawaiian women. She arrived on June 6, 1835, and taught textile production to young Native Hawaiian women on Molokai and Maui until 1857. She also created popular dyed textile designs, which were copied and produced at a factory owned by Kuakini. She died on November 19, 1865 (aged 85), in Honolulu.