John Hunter Padel (3 May 1913 – 24 October 1999) was a British psychoanalyst and classicist.
He was born in Carlisle, where his father Charles Padel was headmaster of Carlisle Grammar School.
He was named after his ancestor, the surgeon John Hunter.
He gained a scholarship to Queen's College, Oxford.
He married Hilda Horatio Barlow, daughter of Sir Alan Barlow and Nora Darwin, in 1944.