John Robert Sitlington Sterrett (1851 in Rockbridge Baths, Virginia[1] —June 15, 1914)[2] was an American classical scholar and archeologist.
He was Professor of Greek at Cornell University from 1901.
He was known for his expeditions, to present-day Turkey and other places in the Near East.
[3] Some of his work was illustrated by photographers by John Henry Haynes.
He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1908.