Henri Nouvel (1621 or 1624 in Pezenas, Herault (France) – between October 1701 and October 1702 at the St. Francis Xavier Mission near Baie des Puants) was a Jesuit priest who spent forty years as a missionary to Native American communities of New France.

Nouvel was the first missionary on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River;[1] and he visited Saginaw 26 years before the French built a fort in Detroit (1701).

[2] Nouvel was already a priest when he entered the Jesuit order in August 1648, and performed religious functions in France until 1662.

Nouvel made several trips to various Native American communities before being appointed superior of the Jesuit missions to the Ottawas in the region in 1672.

[5] Pointe-au-Père, Quebec (English: Father Point) is named after Henri Nouvel, who celebrated the first mass there in 1663.