Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (June 24, 1929 - August 13, 2021) was an American astronomer and a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. She discovered 32 comets (then a record for the most by an individual) and more than 500 asteroids.

Having earned degrees in history, political science, and English literature, she had little interest in planetary science until she met and married geologist Eugene Merle Shoemaker.