Noel George Butlin

Noel G. Butlin (19 December 1921 – 2 April 1991) was an Australian economic historian, considered "one of the most outstanding Australian social scientists of his generation, and one of the major international figures in economic history." He was long associated with the Australian National University, the library of which has an archives centre that bears his name.

Butlin was born in Singleton, New South Wales on 19 December 1921. His father was a railway porter.

His posthumous 1993 book Economics and the Dreamtime: A Hypothetical History provides an economic history of Australia that covers pre-European Australia's economy, as well as indigenous society's contributions to early colonial Australia's history.

He married Lilias Joan Lindsay, a social worker, in 1946.