John Stevens (1845 – 31 July 1916) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

[1] Stevens moved north and resided in first the Rangitikei then Manawatu districts from 1854.

He made a living in agricultural until 1873, when he was hired by Henry Russell as an assistant and interpreter during a Native Lands Alienation Commission at Napier.

[6] In his later years, he had become blind and his lower limbs were paralysed, but he was in good spirits and would not allow others to sympathise with him.

He was in the midst of a conversation with friends when he leaned back and died on 31 July 1916.