John Kaputin

Sir John Kaputin, CMG is a Papua New Guinean athlete and politician.

[2] The association was a local Tolai grouping that was angered by the alienation of land by Germans and Australian plantation owners.

Armed with the leadership skills he had honed, he contested and easily won the 1972 General Elections and became the member for Rabaul Open for Papua New Guinea's National Parliament.

In March 2005, he took office as secretary-general of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, holding the position until 2010.

In December 2011, Kaputin, alongside Edward Laboran, became the inaugural inductees into the Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee Sporting Hall of Fame.