John Martin Rowlands, CBE (Chinese: 羅能士; 20 July 1925 – 19 August 2004) was a British civil servant working in the Hong Kong government from 1952 to 1985.
Rowlands was born in London on 20 July 1925 and graduated from the Charterhouse School and the Selwyn College, Cambridge.
In 1974, he became the Director of Immigration in 1974 and dealt with the Touch Base Policy imposed in 1974, as well as the Vietnamese boat people crisis.
He was appointed Secretary for the Civil Service in 1978 and became an official member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
[2] He was a bird watching lover, which influenced his subordinate Donald Tsang, the later Chief Executive of Hong Kong.