John H. Noble (September 4, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American survivor of the Soviet Gulag system, who wrote several books which described his experiences in it after he was permitted to leave the Soviet Union and return to the United States.

Noble was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father, who was born in Germany, came to the U.S. as a Seventh-day Adventist missionary in 1922. Finding contradictions in church teachings, he eventually left the church. His mother, a photographer, worked in a photo-finishing company in Detroit and his father became the owner of the company. The Nobles eventually built the company to become one of the top ten photo-finishing companies in the U.S.^{[citation needed]} His father was an acquaintance of a German camera manufacturer who wanted to immigrate to the U.S. and offered to trade his camera factory in Dresden for the Nobles’ company. The German company, which was already notable and would later create landmarks such as the Praktica, became a major international brand, employing 600 workers at the business’ peak.

The Nobles stayed in Nazi Germany during World War II and survived the Allies' firebombing of Dresden in February 1945.

By the mid-1990s, Noble was again residing in Dresden, the city where he had been taken prisoner 50 years earlier. The factory building, but not its trademark "Praktica", which had been created independently, had been restored to his family's ownership. He died on November 10, 2007, after suffering a heart attack.

Noble wrote the following books about his ordeal:

• I Found God in Soviet Russia, by John Noble and Glenn D Everett (1959, hardcover).
• I Was a Slave in Russia, by John Noble (Broadview, Illinois: Cicero Bible Press, 1961).
• Amerikanetz (American [man]), by John Noble (Faith & Freedom Forum, 1986).
• Verbannt und Verleugnet (Banished and Vanished), by John H. Noble (Ranger Publishing House, 2005).

• Buchenwald § Soviet Special Camp 2
• Vorkuta uprising
• The Ghost of the Executed Engineer
• An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934. Witkin, Zara (1900-1940)
• Alexander Dolgun (1926–1986) - a survivor of the Soviet Gulag who returned to his native United States.
• Jack Littlepage (1894–1948) - an American engineer who supervised Soviet gold mines from 1928 to 1937
• Karlo Štajner
• Robert Robinson (engineer) (1907–1994) - a Jamaican-born toolmaker who initially worked in the U.S. auto industry in the United States but spent 44 years in the Soviet Union.
• Thomas Sgovio (1916–1997) - an American artist, and a former inmate of a Soviet GULAG camp in Kolyma
• Victor Herman (1915–1985) - a Jewish-American who was initially known as the 'Lindbergh of Russia', spent 18 years in the Gulags of Siberia.