Brinley "Brin" Newton-John was a Welsh–Australian university administrator, professor of German literature, intelligence officer, and Wing commander during the Second World War. Newton-John took part in the top-secret project founded to decipher the German Enigma machine and arrested Rudolf Hess, who had fled from Germany. He was the father of singer Olivia Newton-John.
- Occupation
- linguist, Germanist
- Born
- March 5, 1914, 1914
- Died
- July 3, 1992, 1992
