John Budden (1566–1620) was an English jurist, Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, and Principal of Broadgates Hall.
At the request of Thomas Allen, he migrated to Gloucester Hall about 1587, and devoted himself to civil law.
He died at Broadgates Hall on 11 June 1620, and was buried in the neighbouring church of St. Aldate's.
The former was published by William Bates, and was republished in the volume entitled Vitæ selectorum aliquot virorum, London, 1681.
Budden also translated into Latin Thomas Bodley's Statutes of the Public Library[1] and Sir Thomas Smith's De Republica Anglorum (1610; other editions in 1625, 1630 and 1641), and into English (from the French of Pierre Ayrault) A Discourse for Parents' Honour and Authority over their Children, London, 1614, dedicated to Tobias Matthew.