John Kenyon Davies, FBA, FSA (born 19 September 1937) is a British classical historian and retired academic.
Between 1977 and 2003, he was Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and then went up to Wadham College, Oxford, graduating in 1959.
In 1977, he moved to the University of Liverpool to take up the Rathbone Chair of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology.
[3] While in Washington in 1961 he met the Italian philologist Anna Morpurgo, and married her the following year.