Ian McFarlane
 Ian McFarlane (born 1959) is an Australian music journalist music historian and author who's best known publication is the The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (1999). As a journalist he started in 1984 with Juke a rock music newspaper. During the early 1990s he worked for Roadrunner Records while he published a music guide The Australian New Music Record Guide Volume 1: 1976–1980 (1992).