List of Famous people named John

Sir John Strode of Parnham, Dorset supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He held various official offices during the Protectorate and was knighted by Oliver Cromwell. After the Restoration he was a member of the Cavalier Parliament. He was knighted by King Charles II in 1662.

Sam Youd, known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.

John Joseph Sheridan is an Irish former football player and current manager who manages Swindon Town.

John Hillcoat is an Australian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, and music video director.

John Brian Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

John Ralph Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament.