John Noel (June 18, 1762 – November 1, 1817) was an American politician who served as mayor of Savannah, Georgia, from 1796 to 1797 and from 1804 to 1807.
[1] He was elected to a one-year term as mayor of Savannah in 1796 and then served on the city council (1798–1799 and 1801–1802).
[1][2] In 1805, he was credited by the governor John Milledge for successfully preventing an outbreak of smallpox.
[1] Noel was an investor in the Georgia Company, which was part of the Yazoo Land Fraud of 1795.
[1] He was interred in the city's Laurel Grove Cemetery; his widow survived him by nineteen years and was buried beside him.