John Hamilton "Jack" Simpson (8 February 1929 – 19 May 2015) is a former Australian politician.
[1] He was born in Essendon to furniture retailer William Simpson and his wife Helen.
He attended state schools and worked as a rouseabout at shearing sheds from 1944 to 1947 and then as a French polisher from 1948 to 1955.
[2] He had joined the Labor Party in 1961, and in 1976 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Niddrie.
In 1977 he became Shadow Minister for Public Works, moving to Police and Emergency Services in 1979.