Johan Sauwens (born 14 March 1951 in Sint-Truiden, Belgium) is a Belgian politician from the province of Limburg.

In May 2001, he was forced to resign as minister after it became known that he attended the anniversary celebration of the Sint-Maartensfonds, an organization of Flemish Eastern Front Fighters, where he was a member for over twenty years.

On 23 November 2005, he and Trees Merckx-Van Goey [nl] were honored for their twenty years of parliamentary service during a plenary session in the Flemish Parliament.

He suggested that the N-VA and the CD&V rightly did not accept a half-hearted compromise on the difficult government formation after the federal elections of 13 June 2010.

At the end of 2014, he was nominated by the CD&V as a member of the board of the Flemish public transport company De Lijn.