John Killick

Sir John Edward Killick GCMG (18 November 1919 – 12 February 2004) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to the Soviet Union, and later ambassador to NATO.

Background John Edward Killick was born at Isleworth in 1919. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, University College, London, and Bonn University. Shortly after he arrived, the British government expelled 90 Russian intelligence officers, and Killick had to deal with the difficult Anglo-Soviet relations that followed. He returned to London 1973–75 as deputy to the Permanent Under-Secretary at the FCO, Sir Thomas Brimelow, and also Britain's Permanent Representative on the Council of the Western European Union. He was Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council (the governing body of NATO) 1975–79.

After retiring in 1980, Killick and his wife, Lynette, moved to her home country of South Africa, where he was a director at Dunlop from 1980 to 1985. knighted KCMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1971 and raised to GCMG in the Birthday Honours of 1979.

Sir John Killick Road, built on the former School of Service Intelligence site in Ashford, Kent, is named after him.