John Edwards Hill (11 June 1928 – 6 May 1997) was a British mammalogist who described 24 species and 26 subspecies during his career.
Hill was born on 11 June 1928 in the small hamlet of Colemans Hatch in East Sussex, England.
He then served in the Royal Air Force for two years as a Meteorological Assistant, during which he traveled to Japan, Singapore, and the Nicobar Islands.
In 1948, he began working as an Assistant Experimental Officer at the British Museum (Natural History)'s Department of Zoology.
[4] In 1985, the American Society of Mammalogists elected Hill as an honorary member.