Lieutenant Arnold Lessel MacMorland Greig CBE ED (24 February 1913 – July 1984) was a New Zealand surveyor who served as the eleventh Surveyor-General of the Federated Malay States, from 1960 to 1963.

[1][2] Three months after he was born his mother, originally from Dunedin, Otago, moved her family back to New Zealand, settling in Auckland.

He was captured during the Fall of Singapore and was imprisoned for six months in Changi Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, between February and August 1942, before he was transferred as a prisoner of war to the Mukden prisoner-of-war camp in Manchuria, from November 1942 to August 1945, where he worked in a local machine tool factory.

[1][8] In the 1963 Birthday Honours he was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services as Surveyor-General of Malaysia.

[9] Upon retirement Greig returned to New Zealand and in 1966 he took up a position as a senior lecturer in the Engineering Department at the University of Auckland.