Rajkumari Amrit Kaur DStJ (2 February 1889 – 6 February 1964) was the health minister in the Indian Cabinet for ten years after India's independence from the British Raj in 1947. She was an eminent Gandhian, a freedom fighter, and a social activist.She was also a member of the Constituent Assembly,the body that framed the constitution of India.
From 1957 until her death in 1964, she remained a member of Rajya Sabha. Between 1958 and 1963 Kaur was the president of the All-India Motor Transport Congress in Delhi. Until her death, she continued to hold the presidencies of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, the Tuberculosis Association of India, and theSt. John's Ambulance Corps. She also was awarded the Rene Sand Memorial Award.
She died in New Delhi on 6 February 1964. Today, her private papers are part of the Archives at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, at Teen Murti House, Delhi.
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