John Roberts (24 June 1895 – 9 December 1987) was an Irish hurler, handballer, referee and Gaelic games administrator.
His league and championship career at senior level with the Kilkenny county team spanned thirteen years from 1916 until 1929.
He first played competitive hurling at the age of fourteen with the Dean Street Volunteers before joining the Dicksboro club in 1914.
As a member of the first Leinster inter-provincial team in 1927, Roberts won one Railway Cup medal in the inaugural year of the competition.
He refereed the 1928 All-Ireland final between Cork and Galway, as well as numerous county championship matches in Kilkenny and Wexford.