Joan Eardley
 Joan Eardley (18 May 1921 – 16 August 1963) was a British artist.Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was born in Warnham Sussex England where her parents were dairy farmers. Her mother Irene Morrison was Scottish. Joan had a sister Patricia born in 1922 died 2013. Their father suffered a mental breakdown during the girls' early childhood having been wounded in a gas attack during World War I; when Joan was nine he committed suicide.