John Wilfred Findlay (27 November 1891 – 1 June 1951) was a New Zealand cricketer, soldier and businessman.

Wilfred Findlay was the eldest of three sons of John Findlay, a New Zealand KC and politician who became a Cabinet minister and was knighted in 1911.^[1] The second son, James Lloyd Findlay, was an officer who served in both world wars,^[2] and the third son, Ian Calcutt Findlay, died on active service in the First World War.^[3]

Findlay attended Wellington College, Wellington, where he played in the cricket team. He showed promise in Wellington senior cricket as a fast bowler of genuine pace.^[4] He made his first-class debut shortly after he turned 19, and played four matches for Wellington between December 1910 and December 1911, taking 13 wickets at the low average of 15.30 and at a high strike-rate of a wicket every 33 deliveries.^[5]

Family and business commitments took Findlay to England in 1912.^[6][7][8] He enlisted in the British Army shortly after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and served throughout the war, first with the King's Royal Rifles and then with the Machine Gun Corps, ending with the rank of major.^[9]

On 23 December 1919, in Loughton, Essex, he married Miss Helen Blagden Rich of New York. He was working in insurance in London at the time.^[10][11] He spent most of the rest of his life in Britain and finally the United States, where he was an executive in the insurance industry in New York.^[12]