James William Barnes Steveni

James William Barnes Steveni (born 1859 in Kingston upon Hull, Great Britain; died 1944 in Bromsgrove, Great Britain) was a British journalist and author.

From 1887 he lived in Russia's capital Petersburg (after 1914 named Petrograd), where he taught English language and met Leo Tolstoy, for example. As a correspondent for the London Daily Chronicle in Petersburg between 1892 and 1917 he authored a number of books, essays and articles about political, military, social, cultural, ethnological and historical aspects of Russia's situation on the eve of the First World War and the Russian Revolution.