Ian C. Johnston (born September 27, 1938) is a Canadian author and translator, a retired university-college instructor and a professor emeritus at Vancouver Island University.
He holds certificates from Ontario College of Education, Heidelberg University, and the Jarvis School of Welding.
After that he joined the faculty of the College of New Caledonia, Prince George, British Columbia, where he taught undergraduate English and Classics from 1970 to 1975.
Johnston is the author of The Ironies of War: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad (University Press of America, 1987).
Johnson lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, with his wife, Colleen Johnston.