List of Famous people named John

John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland, known as Lord Burghersh until 1771, was an English peer and Member of Parliament.

John de Vere Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst, was a British Army officer, politician and colonial administrator. After serving in the army, the Foreign Office, and as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons, Wakehurst was appointed as the last British Governor of New South Wales, which he held from 1937 to 1946. Upon returning to Britain he was appointed Governor of Northern Ireland from 1952 to 1964. He was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1962 and died in 1970.

John Sobieslaw of Moravia was a Czech feudal lord, junior margrave of Moravia. John was the second son of John Henry, Margrave of Moravia and Margaret of Opava. In historiography, he was mistaken for his illegitimate half-brother patriarch of Aquileia John of Moravia, for a long time.

John Forbes, 6th Lord Forbes was a Scottish landowner.

Johann Philipp, was a duke of Saxe-Altenburg.

John Doukas, Latinized as Ducas, was the eldest son of Constantine Angelos by Theodora Komnene, the seventh child of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina. John Doukas took the family name of his grandmother Irene. He served as a military commander under Manuel I Komnenos and Isaac II Angelos. Isaac II, who was Doukas's nephew, raised him to the high rank of sebastokrator. Despite his advanced age, he continued to be an active general in the 1180s and 1190s, and until shortly before his death aspired to the imperial throne. He was the progenitor of the Komnenos Doukas line, which founded the Despotate of Epirus after the Fourth Crusade.

Johann Theodor of Bavaria was a cardinal, Prince-Bishop of Regensburg, Prince-Bishop of Freising, and Prince-Bishop of Liège.