John Clother Morkel (22 August 1928 – 4 July 2010) was a South African-born Rhodesian international rugby union player.

[6] In 1949, he moved to Southern Rhodesia to work as a tobacco farmer on land that his grandfather had purchased in 1891.

[7][8] During that time, he became the captain of Rhodesia and led them to a 10–8 win over the All Blacks whom were on the 1949 New Zealand rugby union tour of South Africa.

[9] For his performances, it was proposed that he would play test rugby for South Africa (colloquially known as the Springboks) and captain them in their upcoming tour of the United Kingdom.

However reportedly the notion of having a Rhodesian captain was not popular with the South African ruling National Party and he did not tour.