Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) is an Australian artist, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeler, and an accomplished amateur boxer.

He was born in Creswick, Victoria.

Lindsay is the son of Anglo-Irish surgeon Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay (1843–1915) and Jane Elizabeth Lindsay (1848–1932), daughter of Rev.

Thomas Williams, Wesleyen missionary.

from Creswick.

The fifth of ten children, he is the brother of Percy Lindsay (1870–1952), Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961), Ruby Lindsay (1885–1919), and Daryl Lindsay (1889–1976).