John Preston Searle

(September 12, 1854 - July 26, 1922) was a U.S. minister and educator in the Reformed Church in America.

Searle was the James Suydam Professor of Systematic Theology at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey (1893-1922), as well as President of the Faculty (1902–22).

He became pastor of the church at Griggstown, New Jersey until 1881, when he was called to the First Reformed Church of Somerville, New Jersey, where he served until 1893.

Synod chose Searle to fill a vacant chair in the seminary; and Rutgers College at once conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

He served as a member of the Board of Foreign Missions and of its executive committee, and an officer of the Arabian Mission, as well as serving as president of the General Synod.