Noble is an English surname which commonly appears in multiple areas of the

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. The surname first appears in 1199, during the reign of

Richard I Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes, and was ...

and it is common in

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Notable people

Notable people with the surname include: *

Alfred Noble (engineer) Alfred Noble (August 7, 1844 - April 19, 1914) was an American civil engineer who was best known for his work on canals, particularly the Soo Locks between the Great Lakes of Huron and Superior, and the Panama Canal. Noble graduated with his Uni ...

(1844–1914), American civil engineer *

Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet (13 September 1831 – 22 October 1915) was a Scottish physicist noted for his work on ballistics and gunnery. Early life Born at Greenock, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy and at the Royal Military Academy, ...

(1831–1915), Scottish physicist * Ann C. Noble, sensory chemist and retired professor from the University of California, Davis *

Arthur Noble Arthur Noble ( – February 11, 1747) was a lieutenant colonel in the colonial militia of the British Province of Massachusetts Bay. He is best known for his role in military actions in Nova Scotia during King George's War (the North America ...

(1695–1746), Lieutenant-Colonel of the Massachusetts Bay Colonial Militia *

Anne Noble Anne Lysbeth Noble (born 1954) is a New Zealand photographer and Distinguished Professor of Fine Art (Photography) at Massey University's College of Creative Arts. Her work includes series of photographs examining Antarctica, her own daughter's ...

, a New Zealand photographer * Bill Noble, an Australian rugby league footballer * Brian Noble (disambiguation) ** Brian Noble (bishop) (1936–2019), British Roman Catholic bishop ** Brian Noble (American football) (born 1962), American football player **

Brian Noble (rugby league) Brian David Noble Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 14 February 1961), also known by the nickname of "Nobby", is an English rugby league coach and former rugby league footballer. As a footballer, Noble was a Great Britain national rugby le ...

(born 1961), English rugby league player and coach *

Chelsea Noble Chelsea Noble is an American actress. She is known for her role as Kate McDonnell on the television sitcom ''Growing Pains'' (1989–1992). She is married to her former ''Growing Pains'' co-star, Kirk Cameron. She is the sister-in-law of former ...

, American actress *

Christina Noble Christina Noble is an Irish children's rights campaigner, charity worker and writer, who founded the Christina Noble Children's Foundation in 1989. Noble was born on 23 December 1944, in Dublin, Ireland. Her mother died when she was ten. She ...

(born 1944), Irish children's rights campaigner *

Dave Noble David Gordon Noble (July 29, 1900 – January 24, 1983), nicknamed "Big Moose", was an American football running back. He played college football for the University of Nebraska, where he scored the first touchdown in Memorial Stadium history. Af ...

(1900–1983), American football running back * David Noble (disambiguation) ** David A. Noble (1802–1876), U.S. Representative from Michigan **

David F. Noble David Franklin Noble (July 22, 1945 – December 27, 2010Morrow, Adria"David Noble, academic and activist, dies at 65" ''The Globe and Mail'', December 28, 2010, accessed December 30, 2010.) was a historian and critic of technology, science ...

(1945–2010), historian of technology ** David L. Noble, engineer at IBM who invented the floppy disk ** David W. Noble (1925–2018), historiographer and historian of thought **

David Noble (Australian footballer) David Noble (born 15 May 1967) is a former Australian rules football coach, administrator and player, best known for his tenure as the senior men's coach of the North Melbourne Football Club in 2021 and 2022. He is the chief executive officer ...

(born 1967), former Fitzroy AFL player **

David Noble (canyoner) David 'Dave' Noble (born 1965) is an Australian Canyoner, Explorer and Botanist who on or about 10 September 1994 discovered the Wollemi pine. Thus, resulting in the scientific name of this species, ''Wollemia nobilis'', is named after him. J ...

(born 1965), canyoner and discoverer of the Wollemi Pine **

David Noble (footballer, born 1982) David James Noble (born 2 February 1982) is a football manager and former player, playing as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of St Albans City. Noble made more than 300 appearances in the Football League for Watford, West ...

, football player for St. Albans City F.C. *

Denis Noble Denis Noble (born 16 November 1936) is a British biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford from 1984 to 2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Ph ...

(born 1936), British physiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Oxford *

Dudy Noble Clark Randolph "Dudy" Noble (May 6, 1893 – February 2, 1963) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, track athlete, coach, and college athletics administrator. College Born in Learned, Mississippi, Noble attended Mississip ...

(1893–1963), American athlete, coach, and administrator * Elmer Noble (1909–2001), American biologist *

Emma Noble Emma Jane Noble (born 26 June 1971) is an English model and actress. She was hostess on Bruce Forsyth's game show ''The Price Is Right'' for four years. She worked as a catwalk model for John Rocha and Ghost before turning to commercial modellin ...

(born 1971), actress and model, former daughter-in-law of Sir John Major * Frank Noble (born 1945), footballer who played for Peterborough United * Gene Noble, American R&B singer *

Gladwyn Kingsley Noble Gladwyn Kingsley Noble (September 20, 1894 – December 9, 1940) was an American zoologist who served as the head curator for the Department of Herpetology and the Department of Experimental Biology at the American Museum of Natural History. Noble ...

(1894–1940), American zoologist * Guy Noble, Australian conductor and pianist *

Sir Iain Noble, 3rd Baronet Sir Iain Andrew Noble, 3rd Baronet, (8 September 1935 – 25 December 2010) was a businessman, landowner on the Isle of Skye and a noted Scottish Gaelic language activist. Early life Noble was born in Berlin in 1935 the son of a British dip ...

(born 1935), champion of Gaelic from Skye *

James Noble (senator) James Noble (December 16, 1785 – February 26, 1831) was the first U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of Indiana. Noble was born near Berryville, Virginia and moved with his parents to Campbell County, Kentucky when he was 10. There he studie ...

(1785–1831), 19th century U.S. senator *

James Noble (actor) James Wilkes Noble (March 5, 1922 – March 28, 2016) was an American actor, best known for his portrayal of sweet-natured, dense, naive Governor Eugene X. Gatling on ABC's 1979–1986 sitcom '' Benson''. Life and career Noble was born in Dall ...

(1922–2016), 20th century U.S. actor * James H. Noble (1851–1912), American physician and politician *

Jamie Noble James Gibson (born December 23, 1976) is an American retired professional wrestler better known by the ring name Jamie Noble. He is currently signed to WWE as a producer. In addition to his appearances with WWE, Noble is known for his appeara ...

(born 1976), professional wrestler *

John Noble John Noble (born 20 August 1948) is an Australian actor. He is known for his roles as Denethor in the ''Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy, Dr. Walter Bishop on the science fiction series ''Fringe'', Henry Parrish on the action-horror series '' ...

(born 1948), Australian actor *

John H. Noble John H. Noble (September 4, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American survivor of the Soviet Gulag system, who wrote two books which described his experiences in it after he was permitted to leave the Soviet Union and return to the United State ...

, American inmate of the Soviet Gulag at Vorkuta * Jordan Bankston Noble, (1800–1890) African-American soldier, public speaker, and former slave *

Lee Noble Lee Antony Noble is a British entrepreneur, car designer and engineer. He is the founder of the sports car companies Noble Automotive Ltd in 1999 and Fenix Automotive in 2009. He is also the designer of some low-volume sports cars, including the Ult ...

, British car designer and owner of Noble Automotive * Marc Noble *

Mark Noble Mark James Noble (born 8 May 1987) is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder and is well remembered for his time at English club West Ham United, spending eighteen years with the club. Apart from two sh ...

(born 1987), English footballer *

Maurice Noble Maurice James Noble (May 1, 1911 – May 18, 2001) was an American animation production designer, background artist and layout designer whose contributions to the industry spanned more than 60 years. He was a long-time associate and right-hand m ...

, animation artist *

Matthew Noble Matthew Noble (23 March 1817 – 23 June 1876) was a leading British portrait sculptor. Carver of numerous monumental figures and busts including work memorializing Victorian era royalty and statesmen displayed in locations such as Westminster Ab ...

(1818–1876), British sculptor *

Mike Noble Mike Noble (17 September 1930 – 15 November 2018) was a People of the United Kingdom, British comic artist and illustrator, best known for drawing strips like ''Fireball XL5'' for ''TV Century 21''. Biography Noble's father was a stockbroker's ...

(1930–2018), British comic artist and illustrator * Morgan Noble, American politician *

Monty Noble Montague Alfred Noble (28 January 1873 – 22 June 1940) was an Australian cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. A right-hand batsman, right-handed bowler who could deliver both medium pace and off-break bowling, capable field ...

(1873–1940), Australian cricketer *

Percy Noble (Royal Navy officer) Admiral Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble, GBE, KCB, CVO (16 January 1880 – 25 July 1955) was a Royal Navy officer who served in both World Wars. Noble rose to the rank of admiral and was Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches for two cruci ...

(1880–1955), Royal Navy officer who served in both World Wars *

Ray Noble Raymond Stanley Noble (17 December 1903 – 2 April 1978) was an English jazz and big band musician, who was a bandleader, composer and arranger, as well as a radio host, television and film comedian and actor; he also performed in the United ...

(1903–1978), British bandleader, composer and actor *

Ray Noble (baseball) Rafael Miguel Noble Magee (March 15, 1919 – May 8, 1998) was a Cuban catcher in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball ( MLB) who played professionally in the United States and his native country between 1945 and 1961. Born in Central Hat ...

(1919–1998), Cuban baseball player *

Rayner Noble James Rayner Noble (born August 7, 1961) is an American former baseball coach and player. He last served as NCAA Division I college baseball head coach at the University of Houston. In 13 years of coaching Houston Cougars baseball, he is the winn ...

(born 1961), American college baseball coach *

Reg Noble Edward Reginald Noble (June 23, 1896 – January 19, 1962) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and defenceman who played 17 professional seasons in the National Hockey Association (NHA) and National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto B ...

(1895–1962), former NHL Hockey player * Redman (born Reginald Noble in 1970), American rapper *

Richard Noble Richard James Anthony Noble, OBE (born 6 March 1946) is a Scottish entrepreneur who was holder of the land speed record between 1983 and 1997. He was also the project director of ThrustSSC, the vehicle which holds the current land speed record ...

(born 1946), Scottish former land speed record holder *

Ross Noble Ross Markham Noble (born 5 June 1976) is an English stand-up comedian and actor. Noble rose to mainstream popularity through making appearances on British television, particularly interviews and on panel shows such as '' Have I Got News for You' ...

(born 1976), British stand-up comedian, born in Cramlington, England *

Sierra Noble Sierra Dawn Sky Noble (born February 20, 1990) is a non-binary Canadian singer-songwriter, and fiddle player. Their first album was instrumental, they played a traditional fiddle and followed up with a vocal album in 2008. They have won numero ...

(born 1990) Canadian musician *

T. Tertius Noble Thomas Tertius Noble (May 5, 1867 – May 4, 1953) was an English-born organist and composer, who lived in the United States for the latter part of his career. He served as organist and choirmaster at a number of churches including Ely Cath ...

(1867–1953), British organist and composer *

Trisha Noble Patricia Ann Ruth Noble (3 February 1944 – 23 January 2021) was an Australian singer and actress. Initially performing as Patsy Ann Noble, she was a teenage pop singer in the early 1960s, with regular appearances on the music and variety tele ...

(born 1944), Australian singer and actress * Warren Noble (inventor), inventor of electric stove * William Noble (disambiguation) ** William H. Noble (1788–1850), United States Representative from New York **

William Noble, 1st Baron Kirkley William Joseph Noble, 1st Baron Kirkley, (13 January 1863 – 11 September 1935), known as Sir William Noble, Bt, between 1921 and 1930, was a British shipowner. Background Noble was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, the son of John Noble and Mary, ...

(1863–1935), English shipowner ** William Noble (missionary) (1866–1945), American missionary in Korea ** William Bonneau Noble (1780–1831), English landscape painter ** William Clark Noble (1858–1938), American sculptor ** William Noble (jockey) (1814–1897), English jockey

Fictional characters

* Donna Noble, a character in ''Doctor Who''

References

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