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John Debney (born 18 August 1956; age 67) is a composer from Glendale, California who has written music scores for episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Debney has won Emmy Awards for his music composition on the TV series The Young Riders, SeaQuest DSV, and The Cape. He was also received an Academy Award nomination for his music in Mel Gibson's epic film The Passion of the Christ.

In his prolific career, Debney has also composed the film scores for Hocus Pocus, Cutthroat Island, Liar Liar, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Inspector Gadget, The Emperor's New Groove (for which he received an Annie Award nomination), the first two Spy Kids movies, the two Princess Diaries movies, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Scary Movie 2, The Scorpion King, Bruce Almighty, Elf, and Chicken Little. He was also one of the three composers (along with Graeme Revell and Robert Rodriguez) who wrote the music for 2005's Sin City. He is currently working on the scores for Sin City 2 and Sin City 3.

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