Johannes Jacobus "Hannes" Fagan SC (5 August 1927 – 28 October 2014) was a judge of the High Court of South Africa and Deputy Judge President of the Western Cape High Court.
[2] He attended Jan van Riebeeck High School in Cape Town and matriculated in 1944.
From Cape Town he went to the United Kingdom and furthered his studies at Oxford University, obtaining a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1952.
[3] Fagan began practicing as an advocate in October 1952 as a member of the Cape Bar and in 1971 he was granted an appointment as Senior Counsel.
In 1992, he was appointed as deputy judge president of the Cape Province Division and served in this position until 1997, when he retired.