Pamela Munro (b. May 23, 1947) is an American linguist who specializes in Native American languages. She is a distinguished research professor of linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she has held a position since 1974. She earned her PhD in 1974 from the University of California, San Diego, where her graduate adviser was Margaret Langdon. Her dissertation, entitled Topics in Mojave Syntax, was published by Garland in 1976. Munro was named to be the Ken Hale Professor at the 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute held at UC-Davis.