Jack Kane (1 April 1911 – 10 October 1999) was a Scottish politician and social campaigner who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1972 to 1975.
He was born on 1 April 1911 in Addiewell in West Lothian, the youngest of three brothers in a coal-mining family.
In May 1972 he was elected the first Labour Lord Provost of Edinburgh, succeeding Sir James Wilson McKay.
He remained Lord Provost until 1975 when the implementation of the 1972 Local Government Act subsumed Edinburgh into the Lothian Region.
In 1975 Kane was appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland by the Labour Government led by Harold Wilson.