John Duffie

John Wilson Duffie (May 15, 1913 - February 9, 1989) was a Canadian writer. A longtime humor columnist for the arts and entertainment publication Monday Magazine in Victoria, British Columbia, he was most noted for his 1982 book Duffie's Unimportance of Being Earnest, a collection of his magazine writing which was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1983.

Born in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, His writing also appeared in Edmonton magazine and Wildlife Review,

In the late 1980s, after his wife's death, he moved to Vancouver to be closer to his daughters and grandchildren, but continued writing his column until his death in 1989.