John Edward Curtis Prebble (23 June 1915 – 30 January 2001) was an English journalist, novelist, documentarian and popular historian. He is best known for his studies of Scottish history.

• Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.
  • John Prebble, in Disaster at Dundee, 1956. p. 16.