John Leverett (August 25, 1662 – May 3, 1724) was an early Anglo-American lawyer, politician, educator, and President of Harvard College.

Leverett acted as an Indian commissioner from Massachusetts during Queen Anne's War (1701–1713).

He was unable to persuade the Iroquois to enter the war on the side of the British at a conference in 1704.

In 1709, Leverett served as an emissary from Massachusetts Governor Joseph Dudley to New York Governor John Lovelace in negotiations for the establishment of military cooperation between Massachusetts and New York on the frontier and for an aborted invasion of Canada.

In 1719, Leverett helped to form the Lincolnshire Company which attempted to develop land in the Muscongus Patent in Maine, then part of Massachusetts.