John Mickleburgh (c. 1692 – 11 May 1756) was an English chemist, and the third holder of the 1702 Chair of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
[1] At age 17, on 30 May 1709, Mickleburgh was admitted a sizar at Caius, Cambridge.
Shortly after he migrated to Corpus Christi, Cambridge, where he was made a Fellow in 1714.
He secured the 1702 Chair of Chemistry in 1718, which he occupied until his death in 1756.
[2] Among his students were John Morgan, Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge from 1728 to 1734, and his two immediate successors, George Cuthbert and Robert Bankes.