John Strong CBE FRSE FEIS LLD (15 January 1868 – 7 October 1945) was a 20th-century British educationalist.
This brought the many poorly-funded private Catholic schools in Scotland (mainly in the Glasgow area) into state control.
In 1918 Strong returned to his alma mater, the University of Leeds, as Professor of Education where he remained until 1934.
His proposers were Sir James Donaldson, John Horne, Frank W. Young and Cargill Gilston Knott.
Their son was Major General Kenneth Strong, famed for his role in British military intelligence.