Howard Alexander McFarland (March 7, 1910 – April 7, 1993) was an American baseball player in both professional and semi-pro leagues who appeared in six games for the Washington Senators of Major League Baseball in 1945—the last year of MLB's World War II manpower shortage—after a seven-year hiatus from the professional ranks. Born in El Reno, Oklahoma, he was an outfielder who threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg). Howard McFarland died in Wichita, Kansas, aged 83, in 1993.