John Kristjan Samson (born 1973) is a musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is a singer-songwriter and currently the frontman of the Canadian indie folk/rock band The Weakerthans. He also played bass in the punk band Propagandhi during the mid-1990s.Samson is married to Canadian singer-songwriter Christine Fellows. He is an adjunct professor with the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia.