John Peet (28 October 1818 – 18 January 1874) was a British surgeon who worked in India in the Bombay Medical Service and served as the first professor of anatomy and surgery at the Grant Medical College.
Peet studied medicine at the Colonial Hospital in Hobert Town, Tasmania, under James Scott (1790–1837) and E.S.P.
Peet served with the Indian Navy aboard HMS Nemesis and was with Charles Napier's expedition to Sind.
[1] His early posting was in Sind and in 1845 he became a professor of anatomy at the Grant Medical College while working also at the Jamsetji Jijibhai Hospital.
After the retirement of Charles Morehead, he became the principal of the Grant Medical College.