Manuel Holman "Manley" Johnson Jr. (born February 10, 1949) is an American economist who served as the 13th vice chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1986 to 1990.

After leaving the Fed, he has been co-chairman and senior partner at Johnson Smick International, Inc., an investments, economic and political consulting firm.

Johnson played a key role in preventing systemic economic damage during the stock market crash of October 1987 and in the coordination of international monetary policy by the Group of Ten major industrial countries.

JSI invests with money management funds and provides information services on important economic and political policy changes in major countries that impact global financial institutions located throughout the world.

He also is currently Chairman of the Board of The National Sporting Library and Museum and serves on the board of directors of the Morgan Stanley Funds Group, and NVR Inc. From 1997 to 2004 Johnson was President and Chairman of the Financial Accounting Foundation (the organization that supervises the preparation of U.S. accounting standards).