John Howard Churchill (9 June 1920 – 29 April 1990) was Dean of Carlisle^[1] from 1973 to 1987.

Born in 1920,^[2] he was educated at Sutton Valence School and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1944. He held curacies at St George, Camberwell and All Hallows, Tottenham^[3] before becoming Chaplain of King's College London and a lecturer in Theology. In 1960 he became Vicar of St George, Sheffield and in 1973 a Canon Residentiary of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, his last post before the deanery.^[4] An eminent author,^[5] he died in 1990.