1555–1613) was an English classical scholar and Warden of Winchester College.
He travelled to Geneva, where he heard the lectures and sermons of Theodore Beza and "found him no lesse than a father unto me in curtesie & good will."
From 1585 until 1590, he was the Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford) (a chair later held by his nephew, also named John Harmar), and his 1586 edition of six of John Chrysostom's sermons was the first Greek text printed at Oxford.
[1] In 1605, he received the degrees of BD and DD, in recognition of his role as one of the translators of the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible.
He was part of the Second Oxford Company, assigned to work on the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Book of Revelation.