Jack William Pithey GLM ICD CBE (30 December 1903 – 20 November 1984[3]) was a Rhodesian politician who served as the unrecognised state's Acting President between 1 November 1978 and 5 March 1979.

[4] He was also the President of the Senate of Rhodesia from 1970 to 1978[5][6] having previously been Member of Parliament for the Avondale constituency in north-west Salisbury (now Harare) between 1964 and 1970.

[2] Jack Pithey was born in Potchefstroom in the Transvaal on 30 December 1903; he moved to Rhodesia on 5 September 1923.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1963 New Year Honours.

[7] He married Mary Wood on 1 September 1931; they had two sons and a daughter.