John Clarence Higgins (April 28, 1908 – July 2, 1995) was a Canadian-American screenwriter.

During the 1930s and early 1940s, Higgins worked on mostly complex murder mystery films,^{[citation needed]} including the Spencer Tracy film Murder Man (1935).^[1] During the late 1940s, Higgins continued to pen thrillers, including semidocumentary-style films such as director Anthony Mann's He Walked By Night, Raw Deal, T-Men and Border Incident.

Higgins also wrote horror films like the Basil Rathbone starrer The Black Sleep (1956)^[2] and an early Tom Selleck film, Daughters of Satan (1972).^[3] Higgins also wrote the science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)^[4] and the adventure film Impasse (1969).^[5]