John Venn was a British logician and philosopher noted for introducing the Venn diagram, used today in the fields of set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.

Works by John Venn

• "Consistency and Real Inference". Mind 1 (1). January 1876.
• "Boole's Logical System". Mind 1, 1876 p. 479.
• Symbolic Logic. London: Macmillan and Company. 1881. ISBN 1-4212-6044-1.
• "On the Employment of Geometrical Diagrams for the Sensible Representation of Logical Propositions". Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4: 47-59. 1880.
• The Logic of Chance: An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, with Especial Reference to Its Application to Moral and Social Science (First ed.). London and Cambridge: Macmillan. 1866.. Two further editions were published
• Caius College. London: F. E. Robinson & Company. 1901.
• Caius, John (1904). John Venn, ed. The Annals of Gonville and Caius College. Printed for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, sold by Deighton, Bell & Co.
• Annals of a Clerical Family: Being Some Account of the Family and Descendants of William Venn, Vicar of Otterton, Devon, 1600-1621. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1904. ISBN 978-1-108-04492-9.
• Some of the Characteristics of Belief. London and Cambridge: MacMillan an Co. 1870.