John Carew (born 17 September 1952) is a retired sprint runner from Sierra Leone.
[1] In 1974 Carew came from Sierra Leone to the Soviet Union to study at the Rostov Institute of Civil Engineering.
He married a Russian woman in 1978 in Rostov, and had four children with her: Olah, Willy, Victor and Katerina Keyru.
Olah became an actor, Willy a singer, while Victor and Katerina are international basketball players.
John Carew later returned to Sierra Leone, after being awarded a degree PhD in technical sciences, leaving his family in Russia.