Jon Halliday (June 28,1939—) is an Irish historian specializing in modern Asia. He was educated at University of Oxford and was formerly a senior visiting research fellow at King's College London.
Halliday has written or edited several books, including A Political History of Japanese Capitalism and Korea: The Unknown War. He and his wife, Jung Chang, co-authored a biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: the Unknown Story and Mme Sun Yat-Sen, about the life of Soong Ching-ling, the wife of Sun Yat-sen.
