Shirley Mathis McBay (born May 4, 1935, Bainbridge, Georgia) is the founder and former president of the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, a non-profit dedicated to improving minority education.
She was the Dean for Student Affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1980 to 1990.
She was the first African-American to receive a PhD from the University of Georgia (1966, Mathematics).