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Noel K. Maclaren

Noel K. Maclaren is a pediatric endocrinologist and diabetes researcher known for establishing type 1 diabetes as an autoimmune disease and for predicting who will develop it.

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park (Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado), formerly Huanchaca National Park, is a 1,523,446-hectare Amazonian park in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000, known for the Huanchaca Plateau, cerrado-rainforest ecotone, and the 1997 NKCAP carbon-offset project.

Noel Mikaelian (Նորայր Միքայելյան)

Noel Mikaelian (Norair Mikaelyan, Noel Gevor), Armenian-German cruiserweight boxer born 1990 in Yerevan; two-time WBC cruiserweight world champion (2023, 2025), first German since Schmeling to win a US title.

Noel Neill

Noel Neill (1920–2016), American actress, the first live-action Lois Lane: 1948 Superman serial with Kirk Alyn, then Adventures of Superman TV series 1953–58, later cameos in Superman (1978) and Superman Returns.

Noel Pearson

Noel Pearson is an Australian Aboriginal leader, lawyer, and essayist from Cape York, Queensland, who rose to prominence in 1993 land rights struggles and later championed welfare reform and the Voice referendum.

Noel Purcell

Noel Mary Joseph Purcell (1891-1962), Irish water polo player and solicitor from Dublin; won 1920 Olympic gold for Great Britain, then captained Ireland in 1924, the first Olympian to represent two countries, and was also an Irish rugby international.

Noel Redding

Noel David Redding (born 1945, died 2003), English rock bassist and guitarist, founding bassist of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (1966-1969) on its three studio albums; later led Fat Mattress and the Noel Redding Band in Ireland; his estate lost a 2026 Sony copyright case.

Noel S. Weiss

Noel S. Weiss is an American cancer epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at the University of Washington, known for landmark work on estrogen therapy and cancer screening.

Noel Slater

Noel Bryan Slater (1912–1973) was a British mathematician and physicist known for his statistical theory of unimolecular gas reactions, summarized in his 1959 monograph Theory of Unimolecular Reactions.

Noel Tata

Noel Naval Tata, born 1957, is an Indian-born business executive and half-brother of Ratan Tata who became chairman of the Tata Trusts in 2024, after building the retailer Trent.

Noel Thomas Clemens

Noel Thomas Clemens is an aerospace engineer at UT Austin elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for laser-based measurements of high-speed flows.

Noel Thomas Keen

Noel Thomas Keen (1940–2002) was an American molecular plant pathologist at UC Riverside known for cloning avrA, the first avirulence gene of a plant pathogenic bacterium.

Noel Turnbull

Noel Turnbull (Oswald Graham Noel Turnbull, 1890-1970) was a British tennis player and shipping-firm partner who won the 1920 Antwerp Olympic men's doubles gold with Max Woosnam, finished fourth in singles, and earned the Military Cross in World War I.

Noël Wells

Noël Wells (born 1986, San Antonio, Texas) is an American actress, comedian, director, and voice actor. A 2013–14 SNL featured player, she played Rachel in Master of None, wrote, directed, and starred in Mr. Roosevelt (SXSW Audience Award), and voices D'Vana Tendi in Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Noël Wise

Noël Wise (born 1968) is a U.S. district judge for the Northern District of California, confirmed 50-47 in December 2024; formerly an Alameda County Superior Court judge, DOJ environmental prosecutor, and PG&E in-house counsel.

Noele Gordon

Noele Gordon (Joan Noele Gordon, 1919–1985), English actress and TV pioneer, played Meg Richardson in Crossroads (1964–1981), was the first woman on colour television, and was sacked in 1981.

Noelia Castillo euthanasia case

Noelia Castillo Ramos (2000–2026), a Barcelona woman left paraplegic by a 2022 suicide attempt, received legal euthanasia in Spain on 26 March 2026 after a 601-day court battle with her father through all instances including the ECtHR.

Noelle (2019 film)

Noelle (2019) is a Disney+ original Christmas comedy written and directed by Marc Lawrence, starring Anna Kendrick as Santa's daughter and Bill Hader as her brother Nick; released November 12, 2019, after being pulled from a planned theatrical run.

Noelle E. Selin

Noelle E. Selin is an atmospheric chemist and policy researcher at MIT, a professor in IDSS and EAPS, known for global mercury modeling that informed the Minamata Convention.

Noelle Silva (ノエル・シルヴァ)

Noelle Silva (ノエル・シルヴァ) is a fictional character in Yūki Tabata's manga and anime series Black Clover, a royal Water Magic user of the Black Bull squad.

Noemi Toth

Noemi Toth (Noémi Tóth), born 1976 in Szentes, Hungary, is a water polo defender who won Olympic gold with Italy at Athens 2004, plus world and European medals for Hungary and Italy.

Noémia de Sousa

Noémia de Sousa, born Carolina Noémia Abranches de Sousa Soares (1926–2002), was a Mozambican poet, journalist, and translator known as the mother of Mozambican national poetry.

Noemie Fox

Noemie Fox (Noemie Eva Fox), Australian canoe slalom paddler born 1997 in Marseille, first Olympic women's kayak cross champion at Paris 2024; sister of Jessica Fox, daughter of Richard and Myriam Fox.

Noémie Lenoir

Noémie Lenoir, also known as Naomi Lenoir, is a French model and actress born in 1979, best known as a face of Marks & Spencer and a longtime L'Oréal Paris spokesmodel.

Noémie Merlant

Noémie Merlant (born 1988) is a French actress and director. Known for Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Paris 13th District, and her 2023 César-winning role in L'Innocent, she also directs Mi iubita mon amour and The Balconettes.

Noemvriana

The Noemvriana (Νοεμβριανά) was the fighting that broke out in Athens in December 1916 between royalist Greek forces and an Anglo-French landing party during the National Schism.

Noether normalization lemma

The Noether normalization lemma, a result in commutative algebra proved by Emmy Noether in 1926, states that every finitely generated algebra over a field is a finite extension of a polynomial subring.

Noether's theorem

Noether's theorem is the statement, proved by Emmy Noether in 1918, that every continuous symmetry of a physical system yields a conservation law, such as energy conservation from time-translation symmetry.

Noetherian ring

A Noetherian ring is a ring in which every ideal can be generated by finitely many elements, named after Emmy Noether, who studied them in 1921.

Noeuliissneun Folk Village

Noeuliissneun Folk Village (노을이있는민속촌) is a hanjeongsik dining venue on Geumma-ro, Geumma-myeon, Hongseong County, South Chungcheong, known for boribap and namul dishes.