Signe Lise Howell (15 July 1942 – 26 January 2025) was a Norwegian social anthropologist.
Howell was born in Tinn to physician Finn Oddvar Lie and Lise Thomassen.
She was married to performance artist Anthony Howell from 1970 to 1977, and to Desmond James McNeill from 1986.
She investigated social structures in South-East Asia, and made field studies among the Chewong people in Malaya and Lio people in Flores in Indonesia.
[1][2][4] Among her works are Chewong Myths and Legends from 1982, and Society and Cosmos.