List of Famous people named John

John Bush was the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire.

John Stephen Hampton was Governor of Western Australia from 1862 to 1868.

John Chortasmenos was a Byzantine monk and bishop of Selymbria, who was a distinguished bibliophile, writer, and teacher.

John Stuart Allen was an American astronomer, university professor and university president. He was a native of Indiana, and pursued a career as a professor of astronomy after receiving his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees. Allen was the interim president of the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida, and subsequently became the founding president of the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

Bishop John Joseph "J.J." McCarthy C.S.Sp., was an Irish born, Holy Ghost Father, who served as Bishop to Nairobi, Kenya.

Pope John X was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from March 914 to his death. A candidate of the counts of Tusculum, he attempted to unify Italy under the leadership of Berengar of Friuli, and was instrumental in the defeat of the Saracens at the Battle of Garigliano. He eventually fell out with Marozia, who had him deposed, imprisoned, and finally murdered. John’s pontificate occurred during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum.