Brigadier John Raymond Broadbent, CBE (18 February 1893 – 28 February 1972) was a senior Australian Army officer in the Second World War.

Broadbent was born in Ballarat, Victoria and enlisted in Sydney on 14 June 1940.

[1] Broadbent held numerous posts during the Second World War, while acting as a temporary brigadier, and was Mentioned in Despatches in 1945.

He held the following posts: List of Australian generals and brigadiers