John Alfred Cuthbert (June 3, 1788 – September 22, 1881) was an American politician, soldier and lawyer.
In 1822, United States President James Monroe appointed Cuthbert as a commissioner to treat with the Creek and Cherokee Indians.
From 1831 to 1837, he served as editor and subsequently proprietor of the Federal Union in Milledgeville, Georgia.
In 1852, the Governor of Alabama appointed Cuthbert judge of the circuit court of Mobile County in 1852.
After stepping down from that judicial post, Cuthbert practiced law until his death on September 22, 1881, at Sans Souci, on Mon Louis Island in the Mobile Bay off the coast of Alabama.