John Wesley Hunt (1773–1849) was an American businessman, and early civic leader in Lexington, Kentucky. He was one of the first millionaires west of the Allegheny Mountains. Hunt enslaved as many as 77 people, many of them children, including farm and industrial and domestic workers.
- Occupation
- merchant, financier, pioneer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1773
- Died
- 1849