John Churton Collins (26 March 1848 – 15 September 1908) was a British literary critic.

From King Edward's School, Birmingham, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1872, and at once devoted himself to a literary career, as journalist, essayist and lecturer.

[5] For many years he was a prominent University Extension lecturer, and a constant contributor to the principal reviews.

On 15 September 1908 he was found dead in a ditch near Lowestoft, Suffolk, at which place he had been staying with a doctor for the benefit of his health.

[4] Lord Tennyson, a target of Collins' pen,[6] referred to him as "a louse in the locks of literature".