| John Moten | |
| Order: | 8th |
| Office: | Director-General of Security |
| Term Start: | 8 October 1988 |
| Term End: | 10 January 1992 |
| Primeminister: | Bob Hawke Paul Keating |
| Predecessor: | Alan Wrigley |
| Successor: | David Sadleir |
| Birth Date: | 8 December 1933 |
| Birth Place: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Death Place: | Canberra, ACT |
| Birthname: | John Michael Moten |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Relations: | Murray Moten (father) |
| Alma Mater: | University of Adelaide University of Sydney |
| Occupation: | Aeronautical engineer |
John Michael Moten (8 December 1933[1] – 9 July 2022) was an Australian aeronautical engineer.
From 1988 to 1992, he was the Director-General of Security, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).[2] He was the son of Brigadier Murray Moten, a senior Australian Army officer.[3]
Moten was not a career intelligence officer. He had worked at the Department of Defence, where he was Deputy Secretary of the Strategic and Intelligence Section when he accepted the position of ASIO's Director-General. He retired in January 1992, three years into his five-year term. The reasons for his early retirement were never given.[4]
He died on 9 July 2022, aged 94.[5]