Sir Norman Henry Pownall Whitley, KCB, MC (29 June 1883 – 12 April 1957) was a British Army officer and supreme court judge.

[1] Whitley was born in Chorlton, Manchester, and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

In the 1908 Summer Olympics hosted by Great Britain, Whitley was a member of the British Lacrosse team, which went on to win a silver medal, losing to Canada in the final.

On the outbreak of the First World War, he was commissioned into the Manchester Regiment and, after basic training, was sent to Gallipoli, where he was awarded the Military Cross.

Returning to the legal profession, he was appointed a Deputy Public Prosecutor in Penang in 1920 but soon afterward (1922) transferred to the Straits Settlements (Singapore) in the same capacity.