Marija Aušrine Pavilioniene (born April 6, 1944 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian philologist, professor, human rights activist, feminist writer and politician.
She had been a member of Seimas from 2004 to 2008 as a member of Liberal Democratic Party of Lithuania and since 2009 as a member of Social Democratic Party of Lithuania.
Marija Aušrine was born in the family of actors Vladas Fedotas-Sipavicius and Jadvyga Ramanauskaite and finished the 23rd Vilnius School.
In 1967 she graduated from Vilnius State University, continuing her studies in American literature problems.
In 1977 she maintained a thesis for a PhD degree in Philology in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Her husband Rolandas Pavilionis was a Member of the European Parliament and had been a dean of Vilnius University from 1990 to 2000.
The two had two sons, one of whom is an ambassador to the United States.