Joseph Howard Riopelle (January 30, 1922 – September 22, 2013) was a Canadian ice hockey forward who played 169 games in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens from 1947 to 1950.

The rest of his career, which lasted from 1942 to 1955, was spent in the minor leagues.

He was born in Ottawa, Ontario.

Riopelle died at his home in Blackburn Hamlet, Ottawa, Ontario in 2013, aged 91.

[1] This biographical article relating to a Canadian ice hockey winger born in the 1920s is a stub.