John Stoddard (March 11, 1809 – July 5, 1879) was an American businessman based in Savannah, Georgia, where he was a cotton merchant and planter.

[2] In 1851, Stoddard was elected a director of the Augusta & Waynesboro Railroad.

[4] At the time of his death, Stoddard had been an elder of Savannah's Independent Presbyterian Church for 35 years.

[3] In 1867, Stoddard had built the home at 15 West Perry Street in Chippewa Square.

[7] In the summer of 1871, Stoddard was a pallbearer at the funeral of William B. Hodgson,[3] for whom W. B. Hodgson Hall, today's home of the Georgia Historical Society Research Center, is named.