Maya Deren, geboren als Eleanora Solomonovna Derenkovskaya (* 29. April 1917 in Kiew, Ukraine; † 13. Oktober 1961 in New York City), war eine US-amerikanische Avantgarde-Regisseurin, Tänzerin und Filmtheoretikerin der 1940er und 1950er Jahre. ()
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleonora Derenkowska (Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська), was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.