Noel or Noël may refer to:

Christmas

* , French for

Christmas Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year ...

* Noel is another name for a

Christmas carol A Christmas carol is a carol (a song or hymn) on the theme of Christmas, traditionally sung at Christmas itself or during the surrounding Christmas holiday season. The term noel has sometimes been used, especially for carols of French or ...

Places

Noel, Missouri Noel is a city in McDonald County, Missouri, United States, along the Elk River. The population was 1,832 at the 2010 census. The county adjoins the border with Northwest Arkansas. History A post office called Noel has been in operation since ...

, United States, a city *

Noel, Nova Scotia Noel is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipal District of East Hants, which is in Hants County, Nova Scotia. The community is most well known for being named after its most prominent resident Noël Doiron ...

, Canada, a community * 1563 Noël, an asteroid * Mount Noel, British Columbia, Canada

People

Noel (given name) Noel or Noël has been in use as both a given name and a surname since the 12th century. It has been traditionally given to children born over the Christmas period, and most early baptisms of the name took place in December or early January. The na ...

Noel (surname) Noel is the surname of the following: *Bill Noël (1914–1987), Texas oil industrialist and philanthropist * Christian Noël (born 1945), French fencer *Claude Noël (born 1955), Canadian hockey player and coach * David Noel (born 1984), American ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

*Noel, another term for a

pastorale Pastorale refers to something of a pastoral nature in music, whether in form or in mood. In Baroque music, a pastorale is a movement of a melody in thirds over a drone bass, recalling the Christmas music of ''pifferari'', players of the traditio ...

of a Christmas nature * ''Noël'' (Joan Baez album), 1966 * ''Noël'' (Josh Groban album), 2007 * ''Noel'' (Noel Pagan album), 1988 * ''Noël'' (The Priests album), 2010 * ''Noel'' (Phil Vassar album), 2011 * ''Noel'' (Josh Wilson album), 2012 *''Noel'', 2015 Christmas album by Detail *"

The First Noel "The First Nowell", also known as "The First Noel (or Noël)", is a traditional English Christmas carol with Cornish origins, most likely from the early modern period, although possibly earlier.Noël (singer) Noël is an American disco music Disco is a music genre, genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s in music, 1970s from the United States' urban nightclub, nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor (musi ...

(active late 1970s), American disco singer * Noel (band), a South Korean group

Television

* ''Noel'' (TV series), a Philippine drama * "Noël" (''The West Wing''), a 2000 television episode

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Noel'' (film), 2004 *'' Batman: Noël'', a 2011 comic by Lee Bermejo *''

Le Petit Noël Noël, or Le Petit Noël, is the main character of an eponymous Belgian comics series, and a secondary character of ''Spirou et Fantasio''. His name means "Christmas" in French. The series ''Noël'' was created in 1957 by André Franquin and Jid� ...

'' or Noël, a Belgian comics series or its eponymous character

Other uses

Noel (company) Noel, formally known as Compañía de Galletas Noel S.A. ( en, Noel Cookies Company) is a food and beverage company headquartered in Medellín, Colombia. It is a subsidiary of Grupo Nutresa Grupo Nutresa (in English: Nutresa Group), former ...

, a Colombian cookie manufacturer *NOEL or NOAEL, in toxicology, an acronym for

no-observed-adverse-effect level The no-observed-adverse-effect level (NOAEL) denotes the level of exposure of an organism, found by experiment or observation, at which there is no biologically or statistically significant increase in the frequency or severity of any adverse eff ...

Hurricane Noel Hurricane Noel was a deadly and very damaging tropical cyclone that carved a path of destruction across the Atlantic Ocean from the Caribbean Sea to Newfoundland in late October 2007. The sixteenth tropical depression, fourteenth named storm, ...

, in the 2007 Atlantic season *

Noel baronets There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Noel, two in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain. One creation is extant as of 2008. The Noel Baronetcy, of Brook in the County of Rutland, ...

, three titles, one extant