John Robert Evans CC OOnt (1 October 1929 – 13 February 2015) was a Canadian cardiologist, academic, businessperson, and civic leader.
From 1979 to 1983, he served as founding Director of the Population, Health and Nutrition Department of the World Bank in Washington, DC.
Evans was a research fellow at Harvard Medical School from 1960 to 1961, he then returned to Toronto as an associate professor at U of T's faculty of medicine.
He also worked as a cardiologist at Toronto General Hospital during this period, apparently the only time that he practised medicine.
[5] At the relatively young age of 35, Evans was selected as the founding Dean of McMaster University's new Medical School.