Sir John Maynard Hedstrom (22 February 1872 – 2 June 1951) was a Fijian businessman and politician.

[3] He was educated at Suva Public School and Wesley College in Australia,[4] before graduating from the University of Melbourne.

[2] After returning to Fiji, he initially worked in the post office in Suva,[5] before going into business, joining the Union Steamship Company and becoming manager of the Levuka branch.

In 1908 he was elected to the Legislative Council in the Levuka constituency, defeating the incumbent David Robbie.

[8] In 1936 American botanist Albert Charles Smith named a genus of flowering plants from Fiji (in the Rubiaceae family) Hedstromia after him.