Noel Newton "Crab" Nethersole (2 November 1903 – 17 March 1959) was a Jamaican Rhodes Scholar, cricketer and administrator, lawyer, politician, economist, and Jamaica's Minister of Finance from 1955 to 1959.

[5] He made his first-class debut for Jamaica in 1926–27, opening the bowling and batting in the lower order in a match against L.H.

[10] Nethersole helped found the People's National Party (PNP) in 1938 and served as its vice-president from 1938 until his death in 1959.

[11] During World War II he was prominent in the Jamaican trade union movement, and made a reputation as a conciliator.

In the early 1950s he chaired the PNP committee whose determinations led to the expulsion of extreme leftist members of the party.

[14] He spent two years on negotiations to raise a substantial loan on the New York City money market, he laid the foundations for a central bank, and founded the Development Finance Corporation.

The day after he died, on its front page the Kingston Gleaner said he had been "wholly responsible for the ideas behind the work of transforming Jamaica's financial institutions from the pattern of Crown Colony administration into the modern machinery of a self-governing nation which it is now becoming".