Maribel Yerxa Vinson Owen (née Vinson; October 12, 1911 – February 15, 1961) was an American figure skater and coach. She competed in the disciplines of ladies' singles and pair skating. As a singles skater, she was the 1932 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World medalist (1928 silver, 1930 bronze), the 1937 North American champion, and a nine-time U.S. national champion. As a pair skater, she was the 1935 North American champion and four-time national champion with George Hill. She also won two national titles with Thornton Coolidge. She was the first female sportswriter at The New York Times, and continued competing and winning medals while working as a full-time reporter.

Vinson is tied with Michelle Kwan for the record in U.S. ladies' figure skating titles.

Maribel Yerxa Vinson was the daughter and only child of Thomas Vinson and Gertrude Cliff Vinson of Winchester, Massachusetts. Both of Vinson's parents were figure skaters and Vinson was made an honorary member of the Cambridge Skating Club at birth. She came from a privileged social background. Her mother, Gertrude Vinson, had progressive ideas and homeschooled Vinson until she was nine. She spent much of her childhood skating.

A good student, Vinson studied at her mother's alma mater, Radcliffe College, and graduated in 1933, all the while pursuing an interest in ice skating. She married Canadian skater Guy Owen in 1938 and they had two daughters, Maribel Yerxa Owen, born in 1940 in Boston, and Laurence Rochon Owen, born in 1944 in Oakland, California

They moved to Berkeley in the early 1940s. During World War II, Guy Owen worked at a shipyard during the day and taught ice skating to students after hours. The couple turned professional, earning a living as performers with ice skating shows such as the International Ice Skate Revue before setting up their own show. Their two daughters stayed with their maternal grandparents in Winchester, Massachusetts while their parents toured in 1945.

Conflict arose in the marriage by the late 1940s. Guy Owen was somewhat shy; Maribel Vinson was loud, extroverted and had a dominant personality. Vinson complained to one of her students about Owen's excessive drinking. Owen found show business, life on the road, and long separations from his family stressful. Owen and Vinson divorced in 1949 and Owen moved to Washington. He was visiting his parents in Ottawa when he was rushed to the hospital with severe abdominal pain in April 1952. He died of a perforated ulcer at age 38. Vinson and their daughters were not mentioned in his obituary. It is not known whether Vinson and their daughters attended Owen's funeral Mass.

Following her father's death, also in 1952, Vinson and her daughters moved back east to Winchester and lived with her mother. In February 1961, Maribel Vinson was killed along with both daughters in the Sabena Flight 548 crash in Belgium.

Vinson began to take lessons with coach Willie Frick at the Boston Arena at the age of nine. She won the U.S. junior ladies' title at the age of 12.