John Carnac Morris FRS (16 October 1798 – 2 August 1858) was an English civil servant of the East India Company, and scholar of Telugu.
Born 16 October 1798, was eldest son of John Morris of the Bombay civil service, who was subsequently a director of the East India Company.
The son entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman, and saw active service during the last two years of the Napoleonic Wars.
Settling in Mansfield Street, Portland Place, London, in 1848, Morris spent much of his time thenceforth in commercial enterprises.
Morris placed all his resources at the disposal of the official liquidator, and retired to Jersey, where he died on 2 August 1858.
He compiled of the text-book Telugu Selections, with Translations and Grammatical Analyses: to which is added a Glossary of Revenue Terms used in the Northern Circars, Madras, 1823 (enlarged edition, Madras, 1855); and he was author of an English-Telugu Dictionary, based on Johnson's Dictionary, the first of its kind.