John Scarborough (April 21, 1831 – March 14, 1914) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey from 1875 to 1914.

He and his family emigrated to the United States when he was a child and received his early education at Queensbury, New York.

he graduated from Trinity College in Hartford in 1854 after which he attended the General Theological Seminary in New York.

He was ordained deacon in Trinity Church on June 28, 1857, by Bishop Horatio Potter.

He became assistant in St Paul Church in Troy, New York, where he was ordained priest on August 14, 1858.