John Henry Connell (24 May 1860–9 December 1952) was an Australian hotelier and patron of the arts. Connell was born in , Melbourne, son of William Henry Connell of Dublin, and Mary Connell (née Ingall) of London. As a young man, he worked at the Prince’s Bridge Hotel, owned by Henry Figsby Young and Thomas Joshua Jackson (Jackson was married to Connell's aunt, Sarah, widow of Michael Cavanagh). The hotel was widely known as 'Young and Jackson's' and was famous for its collection of Victorian paintings and South Sea Island weapons lined the walls of the Prince’s Bridge Hotel. In 1900, he took over the lease of the Railway Hotel in Elizabeth Street.