Samuelene "Lena" Purcell (25 July 1898 - 20 December 1982) was a New Zealand shop assistant and trade unionist. She was born in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand in 1898. She was active as a trade unionist from the 1920s to the 1960s and, alongside Alice Cossey of the tailoresses' union, was Auckland's most prominent female unionist during that time.