Jean Overton Fuller

Jean Violet Overton Fuller (7 March 1915 – 8 April 2009) was a British author, poet, mystic, and painter. She is best known for her book Madeleine, the biography of Noor Inayat Khan, an agent of the clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. Noor was executed after she was captured by the Germans. Fuller wrote additional books about SOE, bringing to light the failures of the organization in France during World War II. Fuller also wrote several literary biographies and a book about the identity of Jack the Ripper. She was a painter and poet and, in her youth, an actress.

Critical books about SOE by Fuller and Elizabeth Nicholas, plus inquiries by politician Irene Ward, led to the decision by the British government to publish an official history titled SOE in France.