John Gallacher, Baron Gallacher (7 May 1920, Alexandria, Dunbartonshire–4 January 2004, Kent) was a British co-operative official and politician. Gallacher was educated at St Patrick’s High School, Dumbarton and worked for Vale of Leven Co-operative Society before World War II. He served in the Royal Air Force then joined the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society (SCWS) in Dumbarton as a trainee in Glasgow. In 1949, he was sent on a SCWS scholarship to the Co-operative College in Loughborough for two years and gained a Co-operative Secretary's Diploma (CSD). He went on to work as assistant educational secretary at the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society in South London, and then moved to be education secretary with the Enfield Highway Co-operative Society. He was then the Southern Section