Captain Johan Cornelius Tuxen (12 May 1820 – 29 January 1883) was a Royal Danish Navy officer, politician and writer.

The ship grounded at Puerto Rico and he later received a sentence for dereliction of duties from the Generalkrigsretten.

In 1845, he was decommissioned from service to command the civilian steamer Frederik VI in domestic waters.

During the First Schleswig War, in 1849, now with the rank of first lieutenant, he served aboard the corvette Diana.

In 1875, he was decommissioned from the Navy with the rank of commander due to poor health.

Together with his brother, Georg Emil Tuxen, he also published a text book in Navigation (Lærebog i Navigationen med tilhørende Tabeller, 1856).

His second wife was Elise Rosalie Christence Bernhoft (1827–1895), a daughter of bureau chief Hans Lassenius B.