John Mellors (15 April 1947 - 1 May 2021) was a former senior Australian public servant.

In 1973 he joined the staff of the European Commission in Brussels before being recruited to the Australian Public Service.

Mellors was Director-General of the Victorian Department of Planning and Urban Growth between 1988 and 1990, before taking up a position as Executive General Manager in the Corporate Branch of the Department of Administrative Services.

[2] Mellors served in the Australian Public Service for 22 years,[3] but in 1997, when his department was abolished, he was given just five days' notice to leave.

[4] Mellors subsequently worked as an international development consultant on both short- and longer -term assignments, primarily in South East Asia and the South Pacific, before retiring in 2013.