Sir John Arnold-Wallinger (1869–1931) was a British Indian intelligence officer who led the prototype Indian Political Intelligence Office from 1909 to 1916. He was also the literary prototype of the spymaster of a number of Somerset Maugham's short stories. Arnold-Wallinger is credited with leading the Indian intelligence missions outside India, notably against the Indian Anarchist movement in England, and later against the Berlin Committee and the Hindu-German Conspiracy during World War I. Among his more famous agents was Somerset Maugham who was recruited as a British agent in Switzerland.