Norman Tindale | |
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 Tindale holding a child from Mona Mona Mission in Queensland, 1938 | |
| Born | Norman Barnett Tindale 12 October 1900 Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| Died | 19 November 1993 (aged 93) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Adelaide |
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Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist. He is best remembered for his work mapping the various tribal groupings of Aboriginal Australians at the time of European settlement, shown in his map published in 1940. This map provided the basis of a map published by David Horton in 1996 and widely used in its online form today. Tindale's major work was Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits and Proper Names (1974).