| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Sir John Findlay | |
| Office: | 17th Minister of Justice |
| Primeminister: | Joseph Ward |
| Term Start: | 6 January 1909 |
| Term End: | 26 December 1911 |
| Predecessor: | James McGowan |
| Successor: | Josiah Hanan |
| Office1: | 3rd Minister of Police |
| Primeminister1: | Joseph Ward |
| Term Start1: | 6 January 1909 |
| Term End1: | 26 December 1911 |
| Predecessor1: | James McGowan |
| Successor1: | Josiah Hanan |
| Office2: | 10th Attorney-General of New Zealand |
| Primeminister2: | Joseph Ward |
| Term Start2: | 23 November 1906 |
| Term End2: | 26 December 1911 |
| Predecessor2: | Albert Pitt |
| Successor2: | Alexander Herdman |
| Office3: | 1st Minister of Internal Affairs |
| Primeminister3: | Joseph Ward |
| Term Start3: | 19 November 1907 |
| Term End3: | 6 January 1909 |
| Predecessor3: | Office established |
| Successor3: | David Buddo |
| Office4: | 25th Colonial Secretary of New Zealand |
| Governor4: | The Lord Plunket |
| Primeminister4: | Joseph Ward |
| Term Start4: | 23 November 1906 |
| Term End4: | 19 November 1907 |
| Predecessor4: | Albert Pitt |
| Successor4: | Office abolished |
| Constituency Mp5: | Hawkes Bay |
| Parliament5: | New Zealand |
| Term Start5: | 8 March 1917 |
| Term End5: | 17 December 1919 |
| Predecessor5: | Robert McNab |
| Successor5: | Hugh Campbell |
| Office6: | New Zealand Legislative Councillor |
| Term Start6: | 23 November 1906 |
| Term End6: | 20 November 1911 |
| Appointer6: | The Lord Plunket |
| Nominator6: | Joseph Ward |
| Birth Date: | 21 October 1862 |
| Birth Place: | Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Death Place: | Horsted Keynes, East Sussex, England |
| Spouse: | Josephine Emily Arkle |
| Relations: | Wilfred Findlay (son) James Findlay (son) |
| Party: | Liberal |
Sir John George Findlay (21 October 1862 – 7 December 1929) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party, and was a Cabinet minister from 1906 to 1911.
Born in Dunedin in 1862, Findlay graduated from the University of Otago with a Bachelor of Laws in 1886 and LLD in 1893. He was admitted to the Bar in 1887 and practised as a lawyer first in Palmerston North and later in Wellington. He was appointed King's Counsel in 1907.[1]
He and his wife Josephine had three sons: Wilfred, James and Ian.
Findlay was one of nine candidates who contested the three-member electorate in the ; he came sixth with 33.7% of the vote.[2] He was active with the Liberal Party and wrote much of its election manifesto for the .
When the Attorney-General, Albert Pitt, died in November 1906, there were no suitable members of the legal profession in Parliament.[3] Hence, Joseph Ward appointed Findlay to the Legislative Council on 23 November 1906, and appointed him Attorney-General and Colonial Secretary on the same day. During his tenure of the latter post, which he held until 6 January 1909, it was renamed to Minister of Internal Affairs.
In the 1911 Coronation Honours, Findlay was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.
He resigned from the Legislative Council on 20 November 1911 in preparation for the . Hamer says that he was sent to Auckland and contested the Parnell seat, in an attempt of the Liberals who were facing defeat in 1911 to show that they took Auckland seriously. He lost in the second ballot, with Labour, which had been eliminated on the first ballot split over whether to support Findlay or the Reform candidate James Samuel Dickson.
He represented the Hawkes Bay electorate from 1917 to 1919, when he retired.
He died in Horsted Keynes, East Sussex, England, in 1929.
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