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Kiryat Shmuel (קרית שמואל is a neighborhood at the perimeter of the city of Haifa in northern Israel. The neighborhood is bounded by Kiryat Hayim in the south and in the west, by Kiryat Yam in the west and by Kiryat Motzkin in the east. It is located about one kilometer for the coast, with a train station on its border with Kiryat Motzkin. Kiryat Shmuel has a population of 5500 (2007) consisting mostly of Orthodox Jews. The neighbourhood is named after Shmuel Hayim Landau, a leader of the Hapoel HaMizrachi movement.

Kiryat Shmuel was built on the sands of Haifa Bay in 1938, by members of Hapoel HaMizrachi who wanted to live in a town with of a religious Jewish-Orthodox character. The founders rejected an offer to build a small neibourhood within Kiriat Hayim and chose to start a new town. Initially Kiryat Shmuel was an independet municipal entity, but in 1952 it was amalgamated into Haifa thogether with Kiryat Hayim.

קריית שמואל