John Hood (3 December 1859 – 11 February 1919) was a rear admiral of the United States Navy during World War I.

His first cruise after graduation took him to the South Atlantic in the sloop-of-war Shenandoah, and he later sailed in the Wachusett, Brooklyn, Vandalia, Mohican, Jamestown, Constellation, Bancroft and Kearsarge.

[1] Hood commanded the gunboat Hawk during the Spanish–American War, and carried information of the arrival of the Spanish Caribbean Squadron off Santiago, Cuba, to Commodore Winfield S. Schley, the commander of the Flying Squadron at Cienfuegos, and delivered orders for him to proceed to Santiago on 23 May 1898.

[1] Hood commanded the gunboat Elcano in Chinese waters during the Russo-Japanese War from 1903 to 1905, and the protected cruiser Tacoma from 1907 to 1909, during Haitian and Central American revolutions and elections.

Admiral Hood died of Bright's disease at the Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Maryland, on 11 February 1919.