John Saville (born Orestis Stamatopoulos; 2 April 1916 – 13 June 2009) was a Greek-British Marxist historian, long associated with the University of Hull.

[1] Saville was born Orestis Stamatopoulos in 1916, in the village of Morton, near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire to an English mother and a Greek father.

[2] In 1937 he changed his name by deed poll to John Saville, taking the surname of his mother's second husband.

He was an active member of the CPGB until 1956 and also fought in the Second World War on the Liverpool docks and in India.

Saville emerged as one of the supporters of the New Reasoner group of dissident Marxists who condemned the Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956.