John W. Hair

John William Hair (1880 – March 18, 1941) was a Scottish-born politician in Saskatchewan, who served as mayor of Saskatoon from 1930 to 1931.

Hair was a member of Saskatoon city council in 1926, from 1928 to 1929, and from 1932 to 1933 as an alderman. He also served on the board of governors for the University of Saskatchewan. He had succeeded George Wesley Norman as the mayor of the city in 1930. He served as mayor till 1931 and was succeeded by Joseph Edwin Underwood.

While attending a conference on unemployment in Winnipeg in summer 1930, Mayor Hair confidently declared that the situation in Saskatoon was "under control"; this evaluation was subsequently proven to be "terribly wrong". During the Great Depression the global economy was severely affected; out of $750,000 paid as unemployment relief bills in the province of Saskatchewan, $300,000 was paid by the Saskatoon municipal administration.

Hair died at the age of 61 on March 18, 1941, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. John Hair Crescent in Saskatoon's Avalon community is named in his honour; it one of a small number of streets in the city to have the honoree's given and surname in its name.