John Edwin Midwinter

John Edwin Midwinter OBE FRS (born 8 March 1938) was President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers from 2000 to 2001.

He was educated at St Bartholomew's School, King's College London (BSc Physics, 1961) and the University of London (PhD, 1968). He was BT Professor of Optoelectronics at University College London from 1984 to 1991 and Pender Professor of Electronic Engineering from 1991 to 2004. He was subsequently made an Emeritus Professor there.

He was made an OBE in 1984 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1985. He delivered the Clifford Paterson Lecture of the Royal Society in 1983 and was awarded the Faraday Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1997.