Jack Wiseman (1919 in Brierfield, Lancashire – 1991) was a British economist.
He is known for being one of the first professors of economics at the University of York and an early scholar of health economics.
[citation needed] He joined the Territorial Army in 1939 and fought in the Second World War.
Wiseman joined the London School of Economics as a student in 1946, where he later became a lecturer in business and public finance.
In 1964, Wiseman joined the University of York, where he was founding director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research.