List of Famous people named John

John Ramsay Swinney is a Scottish politician serving as Deputy First Minister of Scotland since 2014 and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills since 2016. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Swinney has also served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Perthshire North since 2011, having previously represented North Tayside from 1999 to 2011.

Sir John Alan Redwood is a British Conservative Party politician. Since 1987, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wokingham in Berkshire. He was formerly Secretary of State for Wales in Prime Minister John Major's cabinet, and was twice an unsuccessful candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party in the 1990s. He subsequently served in the Shadow Cabinets of William Hague and Michael Howard, and has remained a backbencher since then.

Lt Col John Alfred Codrington was a career soldier with a life-long interest in plants and flowers.

John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, PC, FRS, known as the Honourable John Ward from 1788 to 1823 and as the 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward from 1823 to 1827, was a British politician. He served as Foreign Secretary from 1827 to 1828.

John Potter was Archbishop of Canterbury (1737–1747).

John Hutchyns Tyndall was a British fascist political activist. A leading member of various small neo-Nazi groups during the late 1950s and 1960s, he was chairman of the National Front (NF) from 1971 to 1974 and again from 1976 to 1980. He was also chairman of the British National Party (BNP) from 1982 to 1999. On several occasions, he unsuccessfully stood for election to the House of Commons and he also unsuccessfully stood for election to the European Parliament.