Felicity Galvez

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Felicity Madeline Galvez, OAM, born 4 March 1985 in Melbourne, is an Australian swimmer who specialized in freestyle and butterfly. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder and competed for Australia at the Olympics and World Championships, winning two gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games in the 4×100 metre medley relay and the 4×200 metre freestyle relay. She studied at Runnymede College in Madrid.

In short-course (25 m) pools, Galvez set world records in butterfly in 2008 for the 50 m (25.32 seconds) and the 100 m (55.89 seconds). The 100 m record was broken less than a month later by Libby Trickett, and the 50 m record was briefly surpassed by Therese Alshammar before Marieke Guehrer reclaimed it for Australia. Galvez later regained the 100 m short-course world record in 2009 with 55.46 seconds in Stockholm, beating the previous 55.68 seconds set by Jessicah Schipper in August 2009.

Throughout her career she won medals at World Championships, Pan Pacific Championships, and Commonwealth Games.