约翰·约瑟夫·潘兴（John J. Pershing，1860年9月13日－1948年6月15日），第一次世界大战时任美国远征军总司令（1917-1918）。军事家，陆军特级上将（General of the Armies）。

1860年出生于密苏里州，祖上是18世纪德国移民，1886年毕业于西点军校。1905年担任美国驻日大使馆武官、并作为日俄战争的观察团员，同年内成婚。1921年，任美国陆军参谋长。约翰·潘兴葬于阿灵顿国家公墓。

1894年在美国大学University of Nebraska-Lincoln任职期间创立Pershing Rifles (a military fraternity organization),致力于利用Drill meeting和各种其他体能,精神等的选拔和训练来培养未来陆军，海军和空军中成功的优秀军官。后来，包括University of Kentucky (Company-C-1)在内的部分美国公立大学和私立大学中的ROTC Program都设立了Pershing Rifles用于选拔训练和培养未来的军中精英。在政界，部队和商界中，曾经的PR Actives们都有不俗的表现，包括Colin Powell（第65任美国国务卿，乃美国历史上官位第二高的非裔美国人，仅次于美国第44任总统巴拉克·***）, William E. Ward在内的众多杰出人士都曾是Pershing Rifles的Actives（入选成员）。

John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948) was the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I, 1917–18. He rejected British and French demands that American forces be integrated with their armies, and insisted that the AEF would operate as a single unit under his command, although some American divisions fought under British command, and he also allowed all-black units to be integrated with the French army. US forces first saw serious battle at Cantigny, Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, and Soissons. To speed up the arrival of the doughboys, they embarked for France leaving the heavy equipment behind, and used British and French tanks, artillery, airplanes and other munitions. In September 1918 at St. Mihiel, the First Army was directly under Pershing's command; it overwhelmed the salient which the German Army had held for three years. Pershing shifted 600,000 American soldiers to the heavily defended forests of the Argonne, keeping his divisions engaged in hard fighting for 47 days, alongside the French. That victory was one of several factors causing the Germans to call for an armistice, although Pershing himself wanted to continue the war, occupy all of Germany, and permanently destroy German militarism.