Vernon Leader

John Vernon Leader (14 May 1908 – 22 March 1995) was a New Zealand cricketer and mountaineer. He played eleven first-class matches for Otago between the 1928–29 and 1940–41 seasons.

Leader was born at Christchurch in 1908 but was educated at Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin. He played schools representative cricket for Otago. He made his senior representative debut during the 1928–29 season in a Plunket Shield match against Auckland at Carisbrook, scoring seven runs and not taking a wicket. He played irregularly for the provincial side―his next two first-class appearances were during Otago's Plunket Shield winning campaign of 1932–33. In a total of 11 first-class matches he scored 292 runs and took 18 wickets, making his last first-class appearances during the 1940–41 season.