Sir John Henry MacFarland (19 April 1851 – 22 July 1935) was an Irish–Australian university chancellor.
MacFarland was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland and educated at the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast.
[1] He was senior scholar in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Queen's College, Belfast, where he was taught by John Purser.
Moving to St. John's College, Cambridge, he was elected a foundation scholar, and earned a second BA, as 26th wrangler, in 1876.
(A decade later, his younger brother Robert (1860–1922), also a Queen's Belfast and Cambridge maths graduate, would teach at Repton.