Lieutenant Colonel John William Arthur Stephenson DSO (1 August 1907 – 20 May 1982) was a Hong-Kong-born English first-class cricketer who played in India and England from the late 1920s until shortly after the Second World War.

On 2 February 1928, after having played some games for Buckinghamshire in the 1927 Minor Counties Championship while training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Middlesex Regiment of the British Army.

In 1930/31 he played for Madras against the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram's XI, then returned to the Europeans side and produced a good all-round display against Indians, making 117 (he never made another first-class century) and taking six wickets in an innings victory.

He again turned out for Buckinghamshire, but in August made his English first-class debut for the Army against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's.

For his leadership of the battalion (which formed the machine gun battalion of the 51st (Highland) Division) at the Second Battle of Alamein in October/November and during the subsequent advance on Tripoli — and particularly for his actions at Corradini and during the attack on the Mareth Line — the division's General Officer Commanding (GOC), Major General Douglas Wimberley, recommended him for an immediate award of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).

[16] Stephenson did not continue in active service after the war, but was promoted to substantive major in the Reserve of Officers on 1 January 1949, and granted honorary rank as a lieutenant-colonel at the same time.