John Goddard Stearns (1843 - September 17, 1917), an American architect, was the cofounder of the firm Peabody & Stearns. He was an engineer and an 1863 graduate of Harvard University's Lawrence Scientific School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was Associate of the American Institute of Architects and elected a Fellow in 1894.
Stearns died in Duxbury, Massachusetts.