Noël Augustus Kinsella PC CD (November 28, 1939 – December 6, 2023) was a Canadian politician and was speaker of the Senate of Canada from 2006 to 2014.

He was also an alumnus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Angelicum in Rome, from which he earned a PhL and then a PhD in 1965 with a dissertation entitled Toward a theory of personality development : a study of the works of Erik H. Erikson.

On February 8, 2006, he was named Speaker of the Senate by the Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

[1] Kinsella was considered a Red Tory and supported Peter MacKay in his bid to become leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 2003.

This gave him the right to the honorific prefix "The Honourable" and the post-nominal letters "PC" for life.