John Maxwell Landers, FRHistS (born 1952) is a British historian, anthropologist, and academic, who specialises in historical demography.
Landers was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree, Southgate Technical College, Hertford College, Oxford (BA Human Sciences, MA) and Churchill College, Cambridge (PhD, Some problems in the historical demography of London, 1675-1825, approved 13 November 1984).
He is now a Doctor of Letters of the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
From 1980 until 1990 Landers was Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at University College London.
During the academic year 1994/95 he served as Assessor and he has formerly been a member of the Hebdomadal Council and the General Board at Oxford.