John William Fowler (19 July 1954 – 29 September 2023) was an Australian high school teacher and a former mayor of the City of South Sydney.

[3] In 1908 his grandfather John Fowler was appointed postmaster in the town we now know as Wallacia and he became an alderman on the Mulgoa Municipal Council.

[6] His older brother, Ross Fowler OAM, was a Liberal Mayor of the same city on three occasions: 1995–1996, 2013–2014 and 2018–2020.

[8] In February 2001 the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial was unveiled in Green Park in Darlinghurst.

A similar register had been implemented by the Greater London Authority in United Kingdom but this recognition in South Sydney came 15 years before the plebiscite that recognised gay marriage in Australia.