John Everett Butt, FBA (12 April 1906 – 22 November 1965) was an English literary scholar, known for his work on Alexander Pope.
The son of a doctor, he attended Shrewsbury School and Merton College, Oxford, switching from medicine to English language and literature and graduating in 1928.
In 1946, he was elected Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College, Newcastle, then part of Durham University.
Four years later, he was appointed general editor of Methuen's Twickenham edition of the Works of Alexander Pope, an 11-volume series published between 1939 and 1969.
He had been undertaking work on the mid-18th-century volume of The Oxford History of English Literature, which was continued by Geoffrey Carnall.