Frederick Furner Ward (11 May 1872 – 31 December 1954) was a businessman, socialist, union official and politician in South Australia.

[1] Born in Bowden, South Australia to Eliza née Sheils and Frederick Rousseau Ward a miller.

He was elected secretary of the South Australian branch of the Labor Party in 1923 and would hold the role until 1944.

In 1931 there was an intense dispute about the handling of the response to the Great Depression in Australia and the Labor Party split into three.

Ward himself was financially secure, having become a property owner and landlord, however the experience of the depression saw him shift to the political left and embrace socialism, joining the South Australian Socialist League in 1942 and becoming its secretary.