John Whyte (1826 – 16 February 1902) was a pastoralist and businessman in the early years of South Australia.
Whyte was born in Kinross in 1826. one of his schoolteachers was a nephew of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, and schoolmates included Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman who later became Prime Minister of Great Britain.
He served an apprenticeship in Dunfermline as a draper and milliner then opened his own shop in Galway, Ireland.
[1] Whyte withdrew from the partnership in 1884, taking a share of the paddle steamers and the Currie Street property.
Some of the pastoral leases he acquired had previously been stocked with cattle, but Whyte restocked them with sheep.