John Stubbs (or Stubbe) (c. 1543–1591) was an English pamphleteer or political commentator during the Elizabethan era.He was born in the County of Norfolk, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. After reading law at Lincoln's Inn, he lived at Thelveton, in the County of Norfolk. He was a committed Puritan, and he opposed the negotiations for marriage between Queen Elizabeth and François, Duke of Anjou, a French Roman Catholic, the brother of the King of France.