John Butler (born 4 July 1972) is an Irish director, screenwriter, and novelist.

His Television credits include the sketch show Your Bad Self, which won an IFTA for best entertainment show, plus writing and directing on The Outlaws (2021), which starred Stephen Merchant and Christopher Walken, and films directed are The Stag, Handsome Devil, and Papi Chulo.

Other writing has appeared in The Irish Times, the Dublin Review and elsewhere.

He attended Blackrock College, an all-boys Catholic school in Dublin.

In 2022, he wrote and directed an episode of BBC One's The Outlaws (2022),[7] which starred Stephen Merchant, Eleanor Tomlinson and Christopher Walken.