John Arthur Newman FSA (14 December 1936 – 19 April 2023) was an English architectural historian.

John Arthur Newman was born on 14 December 1936,[2][3][4][5] and lived most of his life in Kent.

Pevsner suggested that Newman should research and write the architectural guides on Kent, which were published in 1969.

[6] Bridget Cherry, the general editor of the series, and author of a history of the project, describes Newman as the most significant of Pevsner's collaborators,[8] and Pevsner himself considered Newman's two volumes on Kent to be "the best of the whole series".

[9] In 1986 Newman chaired the Pevsner Memorial Trust, which undertook the restoration of the murals at the Church of St Michael and All Angels in Garton on the Wolds, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in memory of Sir Nikolaus.