List of Famous people named John

John II of Oldenburg was Count of Oldenburg from 1275 until around 1301.

Major John Pitcairn was a British Marine officer who was stationed in Boston, Massachusetts, at the start of the American War of Independence.

John Vesey was a Church of Ireland clergyman.

John Michael Frankenheimer was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), The Train (1964), Seconds (1966), Grand Prix (1966), French Connection II (1975), Black Sunday (1977), Ronin (1998), and Reindeer Games (2000).

John III of Holstein-Plön, called John the Mild, was a Count of Schauenburg and Holstein-Plön and Holstein-Kiel, ruling Holstein-Plön and Holstein-Kiel (1316–1359). Together with Count Gerhard III of Holstein-Rendsburg, John III was the lord ruling in guardianship the Danish Duchy of Schleswig 1332–1340. He was known as “John the Mild”.

Count John Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken was the posthumous son of Count John II and his second wife, Elisabeth of Württemberg-Urach.