John White (c. 1540 – c. 1593) is an English artist, and one of several early English colonists who sails with Richard Grenville in 1585 to North Carolina.

During his time at Roanoke Island, he makes numerous famous drawings with watercolor of the surrounding landscape and native peoples.

These works are significant as they are the most informative illustrations of a Native American society of the Eastern seaboard, and predate the first body of "discovery voyage art" created in the late eighteenth century by the artists who sailed with Captain James Cook.

They are later engraved by Theodore de Bry and bec0me widely known; all the surviving original paintings are now in the print room of the British Museum.