John William House (15 September 1919 – 31 January 1984) was a British geographer, who was Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford from 1974 to 1983.
House was born in 1919 and educated at Bradford Grammar School before studying geography at Jesus College, Oxford under the tuition of J. N. L. Baker.
He was appointed as the first Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford in 1974, a post he held until ill-health forced his retirement in 1983.
He addressed questions of industrialisation in Teesside and employment issues in the vicinity of Newcastle, and his first book was Industrial Britain: the North East (1969).
After moving to Oxford and losing the administrative burdens of being head of department in Newcastle, he carried out more research on France (he was a talented linguist).