List of Famous people named John

John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher,, commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher, was a British Admiral of the Fleet known for his efforts at naval reform. He had a huge influence on the Royal Navy in a career spanning more than 60 years, starting in a navy of wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon and ending in one of steel-hulled battlecruisers, submarines and the first aircraft carriers.

John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr,, styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Colonel John West, Jr. of West Point, Virginia (1632–1691) was commander of the New Kent Militia in the Colony of Virginia, and a representative of the same county in the House of Burgesses.

John Bagwell DL, JP was an Irish Liberal politician.

John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield was an English politician who came from a Yorkshire family, a branch of which had settled in the Kingdom of Ireland.

John Jacob "Johnny" Astor VIII, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever, PC DL is an English businessman and politician. He is an hereditary Lord Temporal, sitting with the Conservatives. Astor was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence from 2010–2015. Astor is a Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.

Dr. John Innes Allan Moir FRSE was a 19th-century Scottish physician and obstetrician who held multiple senior positions within the Scottish medical world.

John Baring of Mount Radford House, Exeter, Devon, was an English merchant banker and MP.

Lieutenant-General John West, 1st Earl De La Warr, styled The Honourable John West until 1723 and known as The Lord De La Warr between 1723 and 1761, was a British soldier, courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1722.