John Nicoll Powrie (born 1898) was a Labour Party politician active in south east London. An engineer's millwright, he was born in Dundee, Scotland. He served in the Royal Engineers during the First World War before he moved to the Kent suburbs of London, becoming a shop steward at Woolwich Arsenal for 12 years, and later chairman of Dartford Divisional Labour Party. He unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Sevenoaks for the Labour Party at the the 1951 and 1955 general elections.