John Hedley Cule (7 February 1920 – 10 April 2015) was a Welsh physician who worked as a general practitioner and later as a psychiatrist.

Here he was inspired into medicine and its history by the headmaster, A. Barrett Sackett, and as a result in 1938 gained admission to Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge.

[2] In 1944, he was promoted to captain and mentioned in dispatches after treating a Royal Army Service Corps driver for a pneumothorax (collapsed lung).

[2] Cule retired from general practice in 1972, began to fish on the River Teifi and moved to Capel Dewi in Ceredigion, West Wales.

[2][3] In 1962, Cule joined the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries as a liveryman, and two years later became a freeman of the City of London.

[2] Cule married nurse Joyce Leslie Bonser in 1944 and they had two sons, Simon and Peter, and a daughter Myfanwy.