John Martin Creed

John Martin Creed, FBA (14 October 1889 – 17 February 1940) was an English theologian and clergyman.

The son of a vicar, he was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School in Leicester and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (graduating in 1912).

He was ordained a priest and elected a fellow at Gonville and Caius in 1914, where he was chaplain from 1915 to 1917.

After being a Chaplain to the Forces (1917–19), he was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, from 1919 until he died.

He gave the Hulsean Lectures in 1936, and in 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.