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Lieutenant-Commander John Hamilton Stubbs, DSO, DSC (June 5, 1912 – 1944) was a Royal Canadian Navy officer. He was killed in the sinking of HCMS Athabaskan in 1944.

Biography
Born in Kaslo, British Columbia, Stubbs was the son of an electrical engineer. From an early age, he expressed an interest in becoming a sailor, and joined the Navy League Sea Cadets aged 10. After attending the Brentwood College School, he applied to join the Royal Canadian Navy, and joined the service as a cadet in 1930.

After initial training, Stubbs was sent to the Royal Navy for further training, He was posted to the Mediterranean Fleet, and served in ships including in the battleship HMS Revenge. In 1935, he was appointed navigation officer in HMCS Skeena, and was promoted to lieutenant the following year. He was then sent to the United Kingdom to receive the Long Navigation Course in HMS Dryad. After finishing the course, he was posted to HMCS Ottawa as navigation officer. In 1940, Stubbs was posted to HMCS Assiniboine as executive officer under Commodore Leonard W. Murray, taking over as commanding officer from Murray in September that year.

For the next two years, Stubbs was mainly engaged in convoy escort duties in the Assiniboine, though in August 1941 he escorted the battleship Prince of Wales to Placentia Bay where prime minister Winston Churchill met President Franklin Roosevelt for the first time.

Whilst escorting Convoy SC 94 in early August 1942 as part of Escort Group C1, Assiniboine 's Type 286 radar spotted U-210 in a heavy fog on 6 August. After attacking the submarine with machine gun fire, Stubbs rammed it twice and finally sank it with depth charges. For his actions, Stubbs was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.

He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

Stubbs is buried in Plouescat Communal Cemetery, France. Mount Stubbs in British Columbia and École John Stubbs Memorial School in Colwood, British Columbia are named in his honour.