Johnny Jewel (born John David Padgett; May 31, 1974) is an American musician, record producer, composer, and visual artist. He is a multi-instrumentalist who is known for using all-analog equipment. Jewel has been recording and releasing material since the mid-1990s.

Born in Houston, Jewel mainly began recording music in Portland, Oregon in 1996 after forming the band Glass Candy with vocalist Ida No. Initially boasting a no wave-influenced sound, the band evolved into an electronic-based duo featuring elements of Italo disco. In 2006, Jewel founded the independent Portland-based record label Italians Do It Better, which features an array of artists and groups that produce similar disco, electronic, and synth-based music. Among the label's artists are Glass Candy, Chromatics and Desire, all of whom Jewel wrote, recorded, and performed with.

With Jewel's involvement, Chromatics achieved considerable commercial success with the album Night Drive (2007), and their music was later featured in Nicolas Winding Refn's film Drive (2011). In addition to Drive, Jewel also scored Refn's film Bronson (2008), as well as Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, Lost River (2015). Additionally, between 2014 and 2018, Jewel released three solo albums, largely consisting of instrumental material.

Jewel was born John David Padgett in 1974 in Houston, Texas, where he was also raised. His father was partially deaf, and Jewel learned sign language to help communicate with him. As a teenager, Jewel was a "creative misfit" who was inspired by the music of The Velvet Underground and Sonic Youth. At age 17, Jewel was the victim of a kidnapping, which he stated marked a pivotal moment in his life.

Jewel was a prospective student at Rice University, but ultimately decided to forgo attending college. At age eighteen, his father died, after which he relocated from Houston to Austin.

In Austin, Jewel began recording music under the name John David V. He subsequently relocated to Portland, Oregon in the mid-1990s, where he continued to record music, this time under the name Johnny Jewel. In 1996, while working at a Fred Meyer grocery store in Portland, Jewel met Ida No (born Lori Monahan), a local from Vancouver, Washington, who also worked in the store.

At the time, Jewel was in the midst of a breakup, and was being kicked out of his apartment. "I had a suitcase with clothes and five Moogs, and it was horrible. So the second time I hung out with [Ida], I called her and was like, 'Can I move in with you?' And she's like, 'Uh, sure.'" The two formed the musical group Glass Candy (initially known as Glass Candy and the Shattered Theatre), and began producing music together. They soon began producing music under the name Glass Candy and the Shattered Theatre. No described their early work as "droney and weird," drawing on elements of no wave, post-punk, and art rock.

Also in 1996, under the alias Twenty Six, he released a post-rock album, This Skin Is Rust, on Bobby J Records.