John Fauvel (21 July 1947 – 12 May 2001) was a British mathematician and historian of mathematics.
In 1977, he obtained his MPhil from the University of Warwick under the supervision of David Orme Tall, with a thesis entitled Fuzzy Theory.
From 1991 to 1994, he was President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and he also edited its newsletter.
From 1992 to 1996, he directed an international study group on the relations between history and mathematics pedagogy, which is affiliated with the International Commission for Mathematical Education (ICMI), and in 2000 he co-directed a major study of ICMI.
[1] Fauvel was a visiting scholar in the Mathematics Department at Colorado College on several occasions, including one on a Fulbright Fellowship during the Winter and Spring of 1999.