John Muir Wood, (31 July 1805–25 June 1892) was a Scottish musician, piano maker, music publisher and an early amateur photographer.

As a youth in Edinburgh Wood received training as a pianist,[4] eventually travelling to Paris and Vienna to continue his musical studies.

[8] One of those concerts was the visit of Frédéric Chopin to Scotland in 1848, which Wood coordinated with London-based piano-manufacturer James Shudi Broadwood.

[8] The focus of his photographs included individual portraits, group scenes, streetscapes, ruins and rural landscapes.

[4] After settling in Glasgow, Wood took paddle steamers, as well as more traditional boats, to explore and photograph the Clyde, Largs, Arran, the Isle of Bute and other Scottish locales.

[4][11] He also experimented with the addition of various metals, such as copper, tin, gold and uranium in an attempt to produce different color tones and more permanent images.

[12] On 22 January 1851 in Gorbals, Lanark, Scotland, John Muir Wood married Helen Kemlo Stephen.