Sir John James Hood Gordon GCB (12 January 1832 – 2 November 1908) was a general in the British Army.

[2] He and his twin brother, Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, were the youngest children in a family of four sons and a daughter.

From September 1858 to April 1859 he acted as field-adjutant to Colonel (Sir) William Turner, commanding the troops on the Grand Trunk Road, near Benares, and the field force during operations in Shahabad.

He led a reconnaissance in force at Habib Kila on 28 November 1878, and discovered that the Afghans, so far from abandoning their guns as had been reported, had taken up a strong position on the top of the pass.

Gordon's report made Sir Frederick Roberts abandon a frontal attack on the Peiwar Kotal Pass.

During the night march some Pathans of the 29th Punjab infantry fired signal shots to warn the enemy of the British advance and the regiment was immediately displaced from its leading position.

Subsequently, he was engaged in the Zaimukht expedition, including the assault of Zava, where he commanded the right column of General Tytler's force.

He wrote an account "Overland from India to Upper Burma", published in The Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine in February 1889.