John Sidney Vesey-Brown OBE (1899 – June 1976) was an English first-class cricketer, British Army officer and a director for the Mobil oil company.

The son of C. S. Vesey-Brown, who was the electrical engineer for Lincoln, Vesey-Brown was born there in 1899. He was educated in Oxfordshire at Bloxham School.^[1] After completing his education, he enlisted in the British Army by lying about his age in order to serve in the First World War. He gained a commission as a temporary second lieutenant into the Durham Light Infantry in October 1917.^[2] Following the war, he was made a temporary lieutenant in May 1919,^[3] before completing his military service in September 1921.^[4] Following the end of his military service, he joined the oil company Mobil.^[5] During the Second World War, he joined the Royal Norfolk Regiment with the rank of lieutenant colonel and later served as the coordinator of petroleum supplies for British West Africa.^[5] For the first two years of his service with the Royal Norfolk Regiment, Vesey-Brown was stationed in British India. There he played first-class cricket, making his first-class debut for the Europeans cricket team against the Indians at Madras in the 1939–40 Madras Presidency Match. He made two further first-class appearances for the Europeans in the 1940–41 and 1942–43 Presidency Matches, in addition to playing for Madras against a touring Ceylon team, and for the Madras Governor's XI against Madras.^[6] Playing as a bowler, he took 26 wickets in his five first-class matches at an average of 15.88; he took a five wicket haul on three occasions and once took ten wickets in a match.^[7] His best innings figures of 5 for 14 came against Madras.^[8]

In 1945, he was seconded to the Ministry of Fuel and Power,^[5] where he was employed as an assistant-secretary, and was made an OBE in the 1946 New Year Honours.^[9] From 1949, he served as a director at Mobil.^[5] Vesey-Brown later retired to Bermuda, where he died in June 1976.^[1]