Noel Robinson

Sir Noel Stuart Robinson (born 28 December 1943) is a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist.

Early life and family Robinson was born in the Auckland suburb of Remuera on 28 December 1943, the son of Percy Robinson and Florence Robinson (née Fisher). He was educated at St Peter's School, Cambridge, from 1953 to 1957, and Saint Kentigern College in Auckland between 1958 and 1961. Upon leaving school, he became an engineering cadet at Fisher & Paykel, the appliance manufacturing company co-founded in 1934 by his uncle, Woolf Fisher, and rose to become factory manager at East Tāmaki.

Robinson was also active in property development, particularly the Highbrook Industrial Estate and Paraparaumu Airport. Air New Zealand began regional services from the airport in 2011, but ceased operations there at short notice in 2018 in a decision of which Robinson was highly critical.

In the 1990s, Robinson was a director and for a time deputy chair of South Auckland Health, which later became the Counties Manukau District Health Board.

Robinson is also chair of the Sir Woolf Fisher Charitable Trust, a trustee of the John Walker Find Your Field of Dreams Foundation, and patron of the Manukau Symphony Orchestra. Following the restoration of titular honours by the New Zealand government in 2009, he accepted redesignation as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

In 2006, Robinson was inducted into the Manukau Business Hall of Fame,