John Denis Wakeling MC (12 December 1918 – 10 October 2004) was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England.
He was born in Leicester and was educated at St Michael's Limpsfield, a Church Missionary Society school in Surrey.
He studied classics at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and served in the Royal Marines in World War II.
He was chaplain at Clare College, Cambridge, then vicar of Emmanuel, Plymouth from 1952 to 1959 and of Barking, Essex from 1959 to 1965 when he was appointed the Archdeacon of West Ham.
His appointment as the Bishop of Southwell in Nottinghamshire followed in 1970; he was consecrated at York Minster on Michaelmas day (29 September) 1970.