Dov Noy (Hebrew: דב נוי; 20 October 1920 – 29 September 2013) was an Israeli folklorist.

[1] He emigrated to Palestine in 1938 and studied Talmud, Jewish history and the Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[1] He then worked as a teacher in British internment camps for Holocaust survivors in Cyprus in 1947–1949, where he met his brother Meir.

[3] This work was later included into Thompson's six-volume Motif-Index of Folk-Literature,[4] "greatly raising the status of Jewish folklore in the field".

[6] Upon returning to Israel in 1955, Noy began teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focusing on aggadah.

Noy collected and analysed folk tales of multiple Jewish communities, including Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jews.

[10] Among his students are Heda Jason [de], Dan Ben-Amos, Aliza Shenhar, Eli Yassif [he], Tamar Alexander [es], Haya Bar-Itzhak, and Galit Hasan-Rokem.