John Collins Covell
 John Collins Covell (December 19 1823 – June 4 1887) was a 19th-century American educator and school administrator specializing in deaf education in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia.Covell was born in 1823 in Rhode Island and was the son of Episcopal minister Reverend Joseph S. Covell and the grandson of Rhode Island Governor John Collins. Covell attended Trinity College and graduated from the institution in 1847.