John Frederick Renshaw Lawes (3 May 1907 – 5 March 1978) was an Australian company director and chairman of QBE Insurance.
His father, Dr Charles Lawes, was a medical graduate of the University of Sydney and John was one of four brothers with one sister.
[2] He, his brothers, and before them their father, all had their school education at Newington College (1919–1926).
[3] Lawes was one of Sydneys longest playing first grade cricketers.
He was deputy chairman – Allied Manufacturing and Trading Industries and of British Tobacco (Australia), where he worked for forty-six years.