Noël le Chevalier Agazarian (26 December 1916 – 16 May 1941) was a British World War II fighter ace with seven victories.

[3] The four siblings' interest in aviation may have been sparked by their mother, who bought a World War I surplus Sopwith Pup fighter for £5 at a Croydon auction, and parked it in the back garden of the family house for use as a plaything by her children.

He achieved a blue in boxing and became friends with Richard Hillary, who became well known some years later for his autobiography The Last Enemy about his time as a fighter pilot.

[8] Hillary later wrote this description of Agazarian: Noël, with his pleasantly ugly face, had been sent down[Note 2] from Oxford over a slight matter of breaking up his college and intended reading for the Bar.

With an Armenian father and a French mother he was by nature cosmopolitan, intelligent, and a brilliant linguist, but an English education had discovered that he was an athlete, and his University triumphs had been of brawn rather than brain.

These warring elements in his make-up made him a most amusing companion and a very good friend.Noël Agazarian joined the Royal Air Force as a Volunteer Reservist and was commissioned as a pilot officer on 14 February 1939.

[13] By the time his course ended in June 1940, France had fallen, the Dunkirk evacuation had taken place and a German invasion of Britain was thought to be imminent.

[12] His first victory was on 11 August, when he shot down a Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter[12] around 15 miles (24 km) south of the Isle of Portland.