John Perry Wall (September 1836 – April 19, 1895) was an American physician, and mayor of Tampa, Florida from 1878 to 1880.
[2] In 1859 he was a surgeon at Chimborazo Hospital in Virginia, serving Confederate soldiers from Florida during the American Civil War.
On a visit to Brooksville, Florida in 1862, he married Pressie Eubanks, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy planter.
In 1871, he contracted yellow fever aboard the steamer H. M. Cool from Cedar Key while treating a cabin boy.
He helped lead construction of the railroad from northeastern Florida to Tampa, the settlement of Vicente Martinez Ybor and a large colony of Cuban and Spanish cigar makers in what is now part of Ybor City, and helped establish the phosphate industry.