John Stanley Mattick (born 1950, Sydney[1]) is an Australian molecular biologist known for his efforts to assign function to non-coding DNA.

[5] Mattick received his high school education at St Patrick's College Strathfield.

Subsequently, he worked at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the CSIRO Division of Molecular Biology in Sydney, and the University of Queensland, where he was based between 1988 and 2012.

[1][8] He was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS) in 2015[9] and was awarded the Lemberg Medal in 2017.

[11] Mattick served as Board Director for Arctoris Ltd, an Oxford-based technology company.