John Cooper, Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath (7 June 1908 – 2 September 1988) was a British Labour Party politician and trade union leader. He was mentored by his Uncle, Charles Dukes (Charles Dukes, 1st Baron Dukeston) the drafter of the United Nations Human Rights Act for the United Kingdom. At the 1950 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Deptford, but stood down from the House of Commons at the 1951 general election. From 1961 to 1973 he was general secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers. On 11 July 1966, he was made a life peer as Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath, of Stockton Heath in the County Palatine of Chester.