A. John Varghese, known as A.J. Varghese and formerly John Varghese, is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in the Malayalam film industry. His directorial debut was with Adi Kapyare Kootamani in 2015.
He stayed in the same college hostel as actor Vineeth Mohan, who has featured in all of his films. Both of them used an Ouija board with their friends, which is when A.J. Varghese got the idea for Adi Kapyare Kootamani. He is married to Adora Jose and they have one daughter.
A.J. Varghese had originally intended to make Adi Kapyare Kootamani in Tamil, but Friday Film House, the producers of the film, persuaded him to make it in Malayalam first and created an agreement, but left out the clause of a Tamil remake in the agreement. He would later go on to direct two more films, Uriyadi (2020) and Adinaasam Vellapokkam (2025). The former received negative reviews from critics and the latter bombed at the box office.