John V. Evans (born 5 July 1933) is a British-American radio astronomer born in Manchester, England. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Manchester, and has been a professor at the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1960. He received the 1975 Appleton Prize. In 1984, Evans was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the development of remote sensing technology which has given us new understanding of the earth's upper atmosphere and the atmospheres of other planets.