Joseph H. Hawkins (c. 1785 – 1823) was a United States Congressman from Kentucky.
He was a member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives from 1810 to 1813 and served two years as Speaker.
He was elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry Clay (1814–1815).
Hawkins died in the vicinity of Madisonville, Louisiana (an area on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain above New Orleans) in 1823 of yellow fever, worsened while helping distressed sailors near the shore of the lake behind his home.
His financial contributions aided Stephen F. Austin and others in the colonization of Texas.