List of Famous people named John

Lieutenant Colonel John Augustus Conolly VC, born in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

John Francis Desideratus was count of Nassau-Siegen and stadtholder of Limburg and Upper Guelders.

John Hay, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl of Tweeddale was Lord Chancellor of Scotland.

John Gully was an English prize-fighter, horse racer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1837.

John Hely-Hutchinson, 3rd Earl of Donoughmore KP, PC (I) was an Irish politician and peer.

John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath PC, of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall, was an English Royalist soldier and statesman during the Civil War who played a major role in the 1660 Restoration of the Monarchy and was later appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was the first in his family to adopt the modernised spelling as Granville of their ancient surname Grenville, which emphasised their supposed ancient 11th-century origin from the Normandy manor of Granville, Manche.

John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley, styled The Hon. John Bligh between 1721 and 1747, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was a British parliamentarian.

John Hely later Hely-Hutchinson was an Irish lawyer, statesman, and Provost of Trinity College Dublin.