John Cruickshank (1920–2025) was a Scottish banker, Royal Air Force officer and a Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross.

John Cruickshank may also refer to:

John Cruickshank (mathematician) (1787–1875), Scottish mathematician John Cruickshank (literary scholar) (1924–1995), Irish scholar of French literature, language, and culture and World War II cryptologist John D. Cruickshank (born c. 1953), Canadian newspaper publisher and (since 2017) Canadian Consul-General in Chicago