Dr Jean Baptiste Octave Sneeden FRSE MIME MITE (1893–1973) was a 20th century Scottish engineer and author.
[2] He was the son of John Alexander Elvin Sneeden (b.1868) and his wife Maria Ravinia Georges (b.1872), and paternal grandson of John Townsend Sneeden of Annapolis in Nova Scotia and Maria Louise Georgina Sharrock of Port Louis, Mauritius.
[2] He then immediately joined the staff of Walthamstow Technical College in north east London.
In 1920 he moved to the Royal Technical College in Glasgow lecturing firstly on Heat Engines.
His proposers were Herbert Stockdale, Dugald McQuistan, John McWhan and David Ellis.