John Martin Ainley Brown (27 April 1928 – 12 January 2005) was a New Zealand plant physiologist and cricket umpire.
[1] Born in England, Brown earned his PhD at Durham University.
[2] He moved to New Zealand in 1956, becoming Professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Auckland, specialising in aquatic macrophytes.
[3] His daughter, Elizabeth Anne Brown, born in Auckland in late 1956, was a noted bryologist.
[4] This biographical article related to a New Zealand cricket person born in the 1920s is a stub.