John Alexander Gunn (1896-1975) was a philosopher who earned his Ph. D. from the University of Liverpool and worked there as a fellow. He went on to be appointed as a professor at the University of Melbourne in 1923 and retired in 1938. His writings include: Bergson and His Philosophy (1920), Modern French Philosophy: a Study of the Development Since Comte (1922), Wealth (1924), Benedict Spinoza (1925) and Livelihood (1927).