Sir Ian Graham Turbott AO CMG CVO (9 March 1922 – 11 August 2016) was a New Zealand-Australian diplomat and university administrator.

Turbott was born in Whangārei, New Zealand, and attended Takapuna Grammar School.

[5][6] Turbott was appointed (1982–1954) as both the NSW chair of the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award – Australia and a national board director.

[1] Turbott was made a knight bachelor in the 1968 British New Year's Honours List.

[8] Turbott met his future wife, Nancy Lantz, on Christmas Eve 1951 when a Pan Am Boeing Stratocruiser on which she was a flight attendant landed on Canton Island, where he was stationed.