John Merrifield Hearman CMG (10 November 1910 – 20 February 1994) was an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1950 to 1968, representing the seat of Blackwood.
Attending Guildford Grammar School, Hearman was a talented rower in his youth and represented Western Australia at the 1930 King's Cup (the Australian national championships).
[1] In 1939, Hearman enlisted in the Australian Army, where he was initially attached to the 2/16th Battalion as a platoon commander and machine gunner.
Hearman saw service in the Middle East, New Guinea, Borneo, and the Celebes, and was mentioned in dispatches during the Kokoda Campaign.
He reach the rank of major by the war's end and was briefly attached to the British Indian Army in 1946, as an officer in the 80th Infantry Brigade.