John Carroll

John F. Carroll (8 January 1925 – 19 April 2018) was an Irish trade union leader. He was vice-president of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) from 1969 to 1981, when he became the union's president until its merger in 1990 with the Federated Workers' Union of Ireland to form the new Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU).

John F. Carroll was born in the Ballybough, an inner city district of northeast Dublin. He was the second of four children of John Carroll and his wife May (née Daly). His father worked for Dublin Corporation as a labourer, was an active member of the ITGWU, and had been a former member of the Communist Party of Ireland.

Carroll died on 19 April 2018, aged 93.