List of Famous people named John

Sir John Boughey, 2nd Baronet (1784–1823), of Betley Court, Staffordshire, was an English Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1812–1818 and Staffordshire in 1820 – 27 June 1823.

John Matthew MacLeod was an American basketball coach in the NCAA and the National Basketball Association.

John Fane, of Wormsley near Watlington, Oxfordshire, was a British Tory politician who represented Oxfordshire in eight successive Parliaments. He was also a magistrate and president of the Oxfordshire Agricultural Society.

John Taylor Gatto was an American author and school teacher who taught in the classroom for nearly 30 years. He devoted much of his energy to his teaching career, then, following his resignation, authored several books on modern education, criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences. He is best known for his books Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, and The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling, which is sometimes considered to be his magnum opus.

John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899.

John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey was an English courtier and political writer and memoirist who was the eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, by his second wife, Elizabeth. He was known as Lord Hervey from 1723, upon the death of his elder half-brother, Carr, the only son of his father's first wife, Isabella, but Lord Hervey never became Earl of Bristol, as he predeceased his father.

John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare PC (Ire) was Attorney-General for Ireland from 1783 to 1789 and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1789 to 1802.