List of Famous people named John

John IV Palaeologus was the Margrave of Montferrat from 1445 until his death.

John of Hesse-Braubach was a German nobleman and general. He was the Landgrave of Hesse-Braubach. His parents were Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and Magdalene of Brandenburg. He was married on 30 September 1647 to Johannetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein, the daughter of Ernest, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn and Louise Juliane of Erbach. The marriage was childless. Johannetta later married Johann Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach.

John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS was a writer and a friend of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson.

John Francis Erskine, Earl of Mar was restored by act of Parliament to the title of Earl of Mar in June 1824, his 83rd year. The title had previously been forfeit, following the attainting of his predecessor, John Erskine in 1716 for having Jacobite sympathies. He died in August 1825.

John II, "The Babymaker", Duke of Cleves, Count of Mark, was a son of John I, Duke of Cleves and Elizabeth of Nevers. He ruled Cleves from 1481 to his death in 1521. He was called "The Babymaker" since he fathered sixty-three illegitimate children before his marriage with Mathilde of Hesse in 1490. She was the daughter of Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse and his wife Anna of Katzenelnbogen.

John Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley, known as Sir John Stanley, 7th Baronet, from 1807 to 1839, was a British peer and politician.

John II of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein was a son of Adolph II, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein and his wife Margarete of Baden, a daughter of Margrave Bernard I, Margrave of Baden-Baden en Anna of Oettingen. After his father's death in 1426, he ruled Nassau-Wiesbaden and Nassau-Idstein.