John Murray Norment (1911–1988) was an American illustrator, gag cartoonist, magazine editor, artist, and photographer.

At the Iannelli Studio in 1935–36, he did textile designs for Montgomery Ward and posters for Carson Pirie.

[1] During World War II, Norment was a combat correspondent-photographer with the US Coast Guard in the North Atlantic, the Pacific and the China Sea.

Returning to civilian life, he worked during the post-World War II years as a photographer for the Wittrup Studio in New York and Chicago's Sundblom Studio, where he photographed the Haddon Sundblom Santa Claus paintings for Coca-Cola.

In 1948, he did freelance gag cartoons for Look, Punch, The Philadelphia Inquirer, True, Argosy and Ladies’ Home Journal.