John Augur Holabird (1886–1945) was an American architect based in Chicago.

[1][2] He was educated at The Hill School, then trained as an engineer, graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1907, with further study at the Washington Barracks Engineering School in 1909.

[1] By 1913, he had completed study at Paris' École des Beaux-Arts, where he became friends with John Wellborn Root Jr., the son of another famous Chicago architect.

Holabird died at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago on May 4, 1945, just as victory was declared in Europe for World War II.

In 1937, Holabird was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1944.