Sir John Linton Myres OBE FBA FRAI (3 July 1869 – 6 March 1954) was a British archaeologist and academic, who conducted excavations in Cyprus during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

William Miles Myres and his wife, Jane Linton, and was educated at Winchester College, then an all-boys independent boarding school.

He studied Literae humaniores (i.e. classics) at New College, Oxford, achieving first class honours in both Mods and Greats, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1892.

[2] During the same year he was a Craven Fellow at the British School at Athens (BSA) with which he excavated at the Minoan sanctuary of Petsofas on Crete.

Myres gave his share of the finds to the University of Oxford, where they form a large part of the Cypriot collection of the Ashmolean Museum.

He also performed excavations at Lapithos in 1913 with Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton, and in 1914 published a handbook of the Luigi Palma di Cesnola collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

He was given command of three former civilian vessels – a motorised caïque (fishing boat), a tugboat and a former royal yacht – which he used to raid along the Turkish shore of the Aegean Sea, stealing cattle to prevent them from being shipped to Germany.

[5] According to Robert Ranulph Marett,[13] Professor Myres, whilst he teaches Greek language and literature as the modern man would have them taught, and is a learned archaeologist to boot, yet can have no greater title to our respect than that, of many devoted helpers, he did the most to organize an effective school of Anthropology in the University of Oxford.He was a major influence on the British-Australian archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe.