diff --git a/docs/api-guide/views.md b/docs/api-guide/views.md
index 2224c1f3a..878a291b2 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/views.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/views.md
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ REST framework also allows you to work with regular function based views.  It pr
 The core of this functionality is the `api_view` decorator, which takes a list of HTTP methods that your view should respond to. For example, this is how you would write a very simple view that just manually returns some data:
 
     from rest_framework.decorators import api_view
+    from rest_framework.response import Response
 
     @api_view()
     def hello_world(request):