Sylvester Joseph Hunter (b. at Bath, 13 September 1829; d. at Stonyhurst, 20 June 1896) was an English Jesuit and educator.
Within eight years of his graduation at Cambridge he had published two legal text-books, The Suit in Equity and The Law of Trusteeships, which immediately attracted attention.
In 1861 he entered the English Novitiate, he there passed through the regular biennium of probation, attended lectures in philosophy at Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall, for one year, taught for two years at Stonyhurst College, and thence passed on to his theological studies at St. Beuno's College, where he was ordained priest in 1870.
Hunter's efforts to deal with this situation resulted in an increased number of Stonyhurst students mentioned in the London Honours List, as well as in two books which he compiled to assist others in the same branch of teaching.
He spent the last five years of his life at Stonyhurst where he began writing Short History of England but died before completing it.