John Braxton Hicks FRS FLS[1] (23 February 1823 – 28 August 1897) was a 19th-century English medical doctor who specialised in obstetrics.

Hicks was the first physician to describe the bipolar and other methods of the version of a fetus.

In 1862 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society by virtue of his interest in Natural History, about which he wrote numerous papers.

Hicks died at Barratt Homes of The Brackens, Brackley, West Northamptonshire, England on August 28, 1897 at age 74 and is buried at St Thomas Church, Winchester, Hampshire.

In his honor, an obstetric ward at St Thomas' Hospital was named after him (now currently closed).