Noel Charles William Beadle (20 December 1914 – 13 October 1998) was an Australian botanist and plant ecologist who spent most of his working life at the University of New England in Armidale.

[1] Employed as a demonstrator in the University of Sydney’s Department of Botany, Beadle was recruited for a plant collecting trip organised by the Linnean Society of New South Wales in 1939.

This led to his employment as a research officer and botanist with the Soil Conservation Service, a newly-established New South Wales Government agency, in late 1939.

Having reached the position of senior lecturer there, he was appointed Foundation Professor of Botany at the University of New England in late 1954.

[1] The NCW Beadle Herbarium at the University of New England is a research collection of approximately 100,000 vascular plant specimens.