John Victor Luce (21 May 1920 – 11 February 2011) was an Irish classicist, professor and Fellow of Classics at Trinity College Dublin.
[2] Luce entered Trinity in 1938 to read Classics, and was elected a Scholar in his first year, a highly unusual achievement.
He was elected a Fellow of Trinity in 1948 and served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Oratory until 1989.
[3] He was also the nephew of Gordon Hannington Luce, the noted scholar of Burmese and Asian History and Bloomsbury group member, and first cousin of Rex Warner, classicist and author of novels such as The Aerodrome.
[4] An avid sportsman in his youth represented Ireland in Hockey in the 1940s, and also played Squash and Cricket.