John Faust Clemente (1926–2011) was an Italian physician whose career was in Tasmania, Australia, and who, as an alderman, was one of the main figures behind the creation of the Salamanca Market in Hobart in 1972.

[3] In 1949 he met the Australian, Ruth Greene, at Christ Church, Oxford, and they married the same year in London.

[3][5] After qualifying in Queensland he obtained a post at Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania in 1951[4] and was subsequently Tasmanian government medical officer in Scottsdale and Cygnet.

He moved to Hobart and private practice in 1955[3] where he bought an Italianate Victorian house on upper Davey Street which he named Coningsby after the novel by Benjamin Disraeli.

[4] He wrote a book on the free mail of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania which is scheduled for publication in 2016.