John Christian Bullitt (February 10, 1824[1]–1902) was a lawyer and civic figure in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He founded the law firm known today as Faegre, Drinker, Biddle & Reath.

His family had a political background: his great-grandfather, Cuthbert Bullitt, was a colonial political leader in Prince William County, Virginia, his grandfather, Alexander Scott Bullitt, was President of Kentucky's first Constitutional Convention, and his father, William C. Bullitt, was a member of Kentucky's Constitutional Convention of 1850.

[3] Bullitt graduated from Centre College and moved to Philadelphia in 1849, on the advice of Secretary of State and future President James Buchanan, whom he had met on a tour in Washington, D.C. Bullitt wed Therese Langhorne in 1850.

[5] His grandson, William Christian Bullitt, Jr., would become the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union.