| Office: | Teachta Dála |
| Term Start: | February 1987 |
| Term End: | November 1992 |
| Constituency: | Dublin Central |
| Office1: | Lord Mayor of Dublin |
| Term Start1: | June 1997 |
| Term End1: | June 1998 |
| Predecessor1: | Brendan Lynch |
| Successor1: | Joe Doyle |
| Birth Date: | 20 May 1944 |
| Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
| Party: | Fianna Fáil |
| Children: | 3 |
| Father: | Thomas Stafford |
John Stafford (born 20 May 1944) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician.[1] He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Central constituency at the 1987 general election.[2] He was re-elected there at the 1989 general election, but owing to the 1992 boundary revisions he was unable to gain nomination there for Fianna Fáil in that year's general election. Instead he was selected to stand in Dublin North-Central, where he was unsuccessful.
A member of Dublin City Council, Stafford was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1997 to 1998,[3] and later proposed the motion which led to the council supporting the construction of the Spire of Dublin. The spire was opposed by his brother, councillor Tom Stafford. His father Thomas Stafford served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1967 to 1968.[4]