John Dobrée Pascoe (26 September 1908 – 20 October 1972) was a New Zealand mountaineer, photographer, writer, editor, historian and archivist.

John Pascoe received his education at Sumner School and Christ's College.

[1] Pascoe was bored with legal work, so he enquired with Joe Heenan, the under-secretary for the Department of Internal Affairs, whether there were employment opportunities.

[1] As National Archivist, he convinced the government statistician to keep the 1966 census forms for future research.

For his work on New Zealand mountaineering, literature, mapping and photography, he was made a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.