Sir Arthur Noel Stockdale DFM (25 December 1920 – 2 February 2004) was an English businessman who co-founded the British supermarket chain Asda, alongside Peter and Fred Asquith.

[1] Stockdale briefly worked at his father's business after leaving school, before embarking on a dairying diploma at the University of Reading.

[3] Upon his retirement in 1986, Stockdale was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, made Life President of Asda, and awarded an honorary degree from the University of Leeds.

Stockdale died on 2 February 2004 in Harrogate District Hospital, leaving a sum of nearly £4.3 million to his wife and children.

That October, at a ceremony in Asda House, Stockdale and the Asquith brothers were honoured with a plaque marking the creation of Associated Dairies and their contribution to grocery shopping in Britain.