Alick Lindsay Poole CBE (4 March 1908 – 2 January 2008) was a New Zealand botanist and forester.
Poole started at the New Zealand State Forest Service 1926, then to Auckland University College on a scholarship.
Poole was deputy scientific leader and one of the botanists on the 1949 New Zealand American Fiordland Expedition.
[1] In 1951 he was appointed assistant director of the New Zealand Forest Service and rose to Director-General, retiring in 1971.
[2][3] In the 1971 New Year Honours, Poole was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the development of forestry and the forest industries.