List of Famous people named John

John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. McCarthy was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence. He co-authored the document that coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the Lisp programming language family, significantly influenced the design of the ALGOL programming language, popularized time-sharing, invented garbage collection, and was very influential in the early development of AI.

Lieutenant-General Sir John Francis Worsley was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong.

John Chambers was an English Benedictine, the last Abbot of Peterborough and first Bishop of Peterborough.

John Watts was an English merchant, Alderman and shipowner, active in the East India Company and Virginia Company and Lord Mayor of London in 1606.

John Kerr was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Virginia from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1815, and again from October 30, 1815, to March 3, 1817.

John Mylong, also known as Jack Mylong-Münz, born Adolf Heinrich Münz, was an Austrian actor who later settled in the United States.

John W. Stanton is an American businessman. He is the chairman of the board of Trilogy International Partners, as well as the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB).

John Herbert Turner was a British Columbia politician. Born in Claydon, Suffolk, England, Turner moved to British North America and worked as a merchant in Halifax and Charlottetown. In 1862 he moved to Victoria, on Vancouver Island, and founded Turner, Beeton and Co. which was involved in salmon canning, insurance and finance, importing and wholesaling.