John Foxe (1517 – 18 April 1587) is an English historian and martyrologist, the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I.

Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helps mold British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries.