Anneila Sargent

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Anneila Sargent (born 1942) is a Scottish–American astronomer, who specializes in star formation.

Sargent completed a BSc Honours degree in Physics at the University of Edinburgh in 1963 and is currently a professor of astronomy at Caltech and has served as director of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy. She served as president of the American Astronomical Society from 2000 to 2002.

Sargent won the NASA Public Service Medal in 1998. Asteroid 18244 Anneila is named in her honor.

Her husband is fellow astronomer Wallace L. W. Sargent.