John Murton (1585 – c. 1626), also known as John Morton, was a co-founder of the Baptist faith in Great Britain. John Murton had been a furrier by trade in Gainsborough-on-Trent and was a member of the 1607 Gainsborough Congregation that relocated to Amsterdam. Murton had been a close disciple of John Smyth while in Holland and eventually Murton returned to London with Thomas Helwys and his church.