John Hawkins may refer to:
- John Hawkins (naval commander) (1532–1595), English admiral
- John Hawkins (17th century diplomat), ambassador of the Kingdom of England to France, 1626–1627
- John Hawkins (MP) (c. 1611–?), English politician
- John Hawkins (burgess), member of the Virginia House of Burgesses
- John Hawkins (Maryland politician), American politician
- John Heywood Hawkins (1802–1877), British politician
- John Parker Hawkins (1830–1914), U.S. Civil War brigadier general
- John Joseph Hawkins (1840–1916), politician in Ontario, Canada
- John A. Hawkins (New York politician) (1864–1941), New York politician
- John J. Hawkins (1855–1935), American jurist and politician in the Arizona Territory
- John Clifford Hawkins (1879–?), African American lawyer and political figure
- John Hawkins (diplomat) (born 1960), British ambassador to Qatar
- John D. Hawkins (born 1968), South Carolina politician
- John Hawkins (archdeacon of Totnes) (1903–1965), Anglican priest
- John Hawkins (archdeacon of Hampstead) (born 1963)
- John Isaac Hawkins (1772–1855), engineer and inventor of the upright piano, a mechanical pencil and a letter copying machine (the polygraph)
- John Russell Hawkins (1862–1939), American professor and college president
- John Hawkins (athlete) (born 1949), Canadian high jumper
- John Hawkins (rower), Australian rower
- John Hawkins (rugby union) (born 1996), English rugby union player
- John Hawkins (Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge), Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1728–1733
- TSS Sir John Hawkins (1929), passenger tender vessel