John Price (born 1933 in Berlin, Germany) is an American diplomat.

Price was born Hans Joachim Praiss[1] to a Jewish family in Germany in 1933 and experienced Kristallnacht as a child.

[2] His family left Germany in April 1939, first for Panama and then the United States where they had relatives.

Price Construction Co. and later, renamed JP Realty, Inc.[2][3] In January 1994, the company filed an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

[4][5] In 1957,[1] he married Utah native Marcia Poulsen whom he met in college; they have three children.