John Beamish Dossetor, OC (born 1925) is a Canadian physician and bioethicist who is notable for co–coordinating the first kidney transplant in Canada and the Commonwealth.

Born in Bangalore, India, he attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire before receiving a B.M. and B.Ch. from the University of Oxford in 1950. In 1955, he immigrated to Canada to accept a position at McGill University. In 1958, he co-ordinated the first kidney transplant. From 1960 to 1969, he worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital. In 1960, he joined the University of Alberta as a professor of medicine, director of the Division of Nephrology and Immunology and co–director of the Medical Research Council, Transplantation Research Unit of the University of Alberta Hospital. From 1985 to 1996, he was the Director of the Bioethics Centre in the Faculty of Medicine (later named the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre).

He is a co-founder of the Kidney Foundation of Canada.

In 1994, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal.

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• "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry". http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=dorais&t=29526&d=1037. Retrieved March 17, 2006. 
• "Alberta Medicine Centennial profile". http://www.medicine100.ab.ca/physicians/100physicians/dossetor.htm. Retrieved March 17, 2006. 

He know lives in Ottawa,Ontario with his wife, son and daughter.