Tyler Abell (born August 9, 1932)[2] is an American lawyer who briefly served as Chief of Protocol of the United States in the late 1960s.

On September 25, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson named Abell to become Chief of Protocol at the U.S. State Department, and he took office less than a week later.

[6][7] Abell resigned on January 20, 1969, after Richard Nixon won the presidential election and the Democratic Party lost control of the White House.

Nixon named Emil Mosbacher, Jr. to succeed Abell as Chief of Protocol.

Abell later became a lawyer[8] and the French-American Executive Committee co-chair of the Association du Mouvement des Français de l'Étranger.