John Dickson (born 1967) is an Australian author, Anglican cleric and historian of the ancient world, largely focusing on early Christianity and Judaism.

Dickson was educated at Mosman High School, Sydney, and grew up in what he describes as "a typical Aussie home".

[2] On 12 October 1976, Dickson's father died in the Indian Airlines Flight 171 disaster at Bombay Airport.

[4] He attended Christian Scripture Class (SRE) in the pursuit of a "pleasant way to pass half an hour" and to "ask questions to make the volunteers look stupid".

[2] He became the lead singer of the Christian rock band In The Silence from the late 1980s to the early 90s, playing up to six shows a week, often sharing his new faith.

[11] Dickson later became a visiting academic of the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford,[5] and in 2019 he was appointed as the Distinguished Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Public Christianity at Ridley College in Melbourne.

[16] On 6 May 2015, Dickson's book A Sneaking Suspicion (1995) was banned from state schools by the New South Wales Department of Education and Communities on the basis of a "potential risk to students in the delivery of this material, if not taught sensitively and in an age appropriate manner".

[20] In one column, he offered to eat a page out of his Bible "if someone could find a full Professor of Ancient History, Classics or New Testament in any real university in the world who argues that Jesus never lived.

[14] In this role Dickson has argued for a more respectful approach to engaging the secular world:"Evangelicals in America (maybe Australia as well?)