John Hanlon (born 1949) is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. From 1974 to 1976, he collected three successive New Zealand Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year awards, a feat achieved by no other artist before or since, as well as the APRA Silver Scroll two years in succession. He was born in Malaya and lived in New Zealand since the 1960s. In 1978 he moved to Australia where he has been since, running Sydney ad agency LOUD.