Meir (Mike) Ronnen (1926 – August 30, 2009) was an Israeli journalist, political cartoonist, art critic, and illustrator. Meir Ronnen was born in Melbourne, as Meir Isaacman. His father was born in Jerusalem, Land of Israel, and his mother in Liverpool, UK. He studied art and architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne. During the Second World War he was recruited to the Australian Army, and after the war was stationed in occupied Japan as a staff member of a military newspaper, BCON, where he had a weekly column "In a mess by Mike". In 1945–46 he drew portraits of Japanese war criminals at the hearings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo. Back in Australia, he worked as a cartoonist for The Sunday Telegraph.