John Moody (May 2, 1868 – February 16, 1958)[1] was an American financial analyst, businessman and investor.

He pioneered the rating of bonds and founded Moody's Investors Service.

Moody's status is reflected in Thomas Friedman's 1996 comment: thatThere are two superpowers in the world today in my opinion.

He received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Boston College, and was made Knight Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem by Pope Pius XI.

He was married to Anna Mulford Addison (1877, Nice, France – 1965); their sons were UCLA philosopher and medievalist, Ernest Addison Moody (1903–1975) and John Edmund Moody (1900–1926), who died of typhoid fever in Messina, Sicily.