List of Famous people named John

John Willinsky is a Canadian educator, activist, and author. Willinsky is currently on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Education where he is the Khosla Family Professor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and directs the Public Knowledge Project.

John Foster, styled The Honourable, was an Anglo-Irish politician.

John Cox Underwood was an American civil engineer, Confederate veteran, journalist and the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.

Prof John Couch Adams FRSE FRAS LLD was a British mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge.

John Llewellyn Lewis was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960. A major player in the history of coal mining, he was the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), which established the United Steel Workers of America and helped organize millions of other industrial workers in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. After resigning as head of the CIO in 1941, Lewis took the United Mine Workers out of the CIO in 1942 and in 1944 took the union into the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

John Halliday was an American actor of stage and screen, who often played suave aristocrats and foreigners.