Kathleen Grace Noble

Kathleen Grace Noble (born 20 December 1994 ) is an Irish-Ugandan rower. She is recognized as the first Ugandan to qualify for rowing at the Olympics in the Women's Single Scull. She is also recognized as having achieved Uganda's best time so far (30.80 seconds) in the 50m butterfly at the FINA World Swimming Championships. Noble attended the then Kabira International School (now Kampala International School) between 1999 and 2004. She later joined the International School of Uganda for secondary in 2004, leaving in 2013. She then joined Princeton University in 2014 and graduated with a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

She obtained Ugandan citizenship in 2022.

Career Based in Utah, she works as a technician in the Schiffman Lab at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City. and Uganda with 50M butterfly and 50M freestyle as her specialty. Noble was part of the Ugandan team at the 2012 World Swimming Championship in Istanbul, Turkey. In addition, she played volleyball and represented the International School of Uganda in the ISSEA (International Schools of South and East Africa) competitions between 2009 and 2012. In preparation for the 2016 World Championships, Noble took a semester off to train with the Ugandan team. She was recruited and trained under William Mwanga with the Maroons Aqua Sports Club, where she learned how to row in a single boat.

After graduating from university, she moved to Utah, working as a wilderness therapy field instructor working with youth in the desert, teaching survival and communication skills, and resumed training with the Utah Crew under coach Linda Iqbal.