Mary Reynolds Babcock (August 8, 1908 – July 17, 1953) was a philanthropist.
Mary Reynolds Babcock was the daughter of R.J Reynolds and Katharine Smith Reynolds and therefore inherited considerable wealth from her father's foundation of the R.
J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company.
She was a founder for both Zachary Smith Reynolds Foundation and Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation.
She and her husband Charles Babcock gifted Wake Forest University 350 acres, and the university moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina.