Nicole Ameline (born 4 July 1952) is a French politician, lawyer, diplomat and women's rights advocate.

After administrative posts at Honfleur then on the General council of Calvados, she entered politics as deputy to Michel d'Ornano on the National Assembly of France in 1988, and took over from him on his death in 1991.

She was opposed by a National Front candidate, and on the left by Corinne Lepage, who failed to qualify for the second round.

The same year, she headed the Hornfleur Majorité Présidentielle list for the municipality, but lost by 37 votes to an independent ecologist.

Re-elected as a member in 2002 under the banner of the Union pour la majorité présidentielle, newly created from the UMP, she was a minister in the Raffarin government, responsible for the Sea for one month, then had full responsibility for Parity and Professional Equality, up until Jean-Pierre Raffarin's resignation on 31 May 2005.