Ricardo Armando Novoa Arciniegas (1 September 1931 – 12 May 2017) was a Salvadoran attorney at law, notary, writer and politician.

He attended the Salvadoran Lyceum in San Salvador, obtaining a bachelor's degree in science and art in 1948.

[4][5][6] Novoa Arciniegas was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of El Salvador in 1989 during the administrations of Alfredo Cristiani.

[9][10] His paternal great grandfather Constantino Fuentes Parra was president of the Legislative Assembly in 1881, his maternal great grandfather Juan María Villatoro Medrano was a congressman in 1868 and Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice in Dec. 1883, Jan. 1886 and in 1905, his grandfather Fidel Novoa Meléndez was President of the Legislative Assembly in 1903 and 1912, his father Fidel Novoa Fuentes was a Governor of Cuscatlán Department in 1924 and congressman in 1929, and his brother Fidel Antonio Novoa Arciniegas was the Mayor of San Salvador in 1964.

He was buried in the "Los Ilustres" general cemetery of the city of San Salvador, in the Novoa Family mausoleum.