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Vivien John (8 March 1915 – 20 May 1994) was a British painter.
After the War, John married a haematologist, Dr John White, and the couple spent 1947 in Moscow and periods of the 1960s in both Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. She continued to paint and had a number of exhibitions, including a 1967 show at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and a solo exhibition at the Upper Grosvenor Galleries in 1971. Her work featured in group exhibitions at the Royal Academy, the London Group and with the Women's International Art Club. Examples of John's work was included in the 1987 Slade Contemporaries exhibition and a memorial exhibition was held in 1995.
Fellow artist Gwen John was her aunt, and some of Vivien's half-siblings were cellist Amaryllis Fleming, Sir Caspar John and another artist Gwyneth Johnstone; only Sir Caspar was born from Augustus's only marriage and he became a prominent Royal Navy admiral and later First Sea Lord. Her only living half-brother is retired television director Tristan de Vere Cole (b. 1935). Cole, Fleming, and Johnstone were born from Augustus's other relationships.
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