Sir John William Kaye KCSI FRS (3 June 1814 – 24 July 1876) was a British military historian, civil servant and army officer in India.

He resigned his commission in the army on 1 April 1841[6] and began to write for newspapers such as the Bengal Hurkaru, which he edited.

The book was well received: John Clark Marshman regarded it as "the most interesting of all works which have hitherto appeared on British Indian history".

[6] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography considers Kaye's History of the Sepoy War in India still to be a standard work.

[12] After retiring from the India Office in 1874 due to ill health,[6][14] he died in London at his home at Rose Hill on 24 July 1876.