John Rodman Paul (April 18, 1893 – May 6, 1971) was an American virologist whose research focused on the spread of polio and the development of treatments for the disease.

He earned his undergraduate degree in 1915 from Princeton University and received his medical training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, which awarded him an M.D.

[2] He began his career as an assistant pathologist at Johns Hopkins in 1919 and 1920, and followed that with an internship at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia from 1920 to 1922.

He travelled to the Soviet Union in 1956 as part of a group of five doctors who visited medical facilities there.

[2] Paul's research also included work on hepatitis, infectious mononucleosis and rheumatic fever.