Colonel John Banks Brady DSO OBE ED (7 November 1875 – 13 February 1952) was a British-born Southern Rhodesian soldier, educator and politician who served as the member for Bulawayo North along with Allan Ross Welsh from 1933 to 1935 and later Bulawayo East in the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly.

[2] John Banks Brady arrived in South Africa in 1900 to fight in the Second Boer War.

With the outbreak of World War II, Brady returned to active service as a Military Observer and Liaison Officer for Southern Rhodesia to the Middle East Campaign.

However, ill-health forced his retirement, and he was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1943 for his service.

[6] Brady died on 13 February 1952 at the age of 76 in Bulawayo General Hospital from cardiac syncope and lobar pneumonia.