Adrian Johns (academic)

Adrian Dominic Sinclair Johns (born 19 October 1965) is a British-born academic. He earned a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1992. He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2001, and was appointed the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2012.

Johns is best known for his works on the history of information, particularly The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making and Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates.

Johns met Alison Winter at Cambridge in 1987, and the two married in 1992. She died in 2016.