John Clarke Hawkshaw (7 August 1841 – 12 February 1921) was a British civil engineer.

[8] Hawkshaw graduated with a Master of Arts degree and lived at Liphook in Hampshire.

[10] In March 1876 Hawkshaw was elected a member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers, an institution that he would become president of in 1889.

[13] The largest civil engineering project undertaken by the firm which was initiated by John Clarke Hawkshaw was the Puerto Madero docks in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1887–98).

[9] In 1903 he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission to decide the British submission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904.