Herman Jan "John" Semmelink (December 17, 1938 – February 7, 1959) was an alpine ski racer from Canada.Born in Shanghai, China, he was the eldest son of Richard Herman Semmelink and Margaretha Catharina Visser of the Netherlands.[1] His father had held positions at KLM and the Java-China-Japan Line. During World War II, the Semmelink family was interned in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, Philippines.[2]The family relocated to Canada 1950 and he became a naturalized citizen in 1957.