List of Famous people named John

John Harley was a British bishop.

Sir John Bretland Farmer FRS FRSE was a British botanist. He believed that chromomeres not chromosomes were the unit of heredity. Farmer and J. E. S. Moore introduced the term meiosis in 1905.

John Bostock, Jr. MD FRS was an English physician, scientist and geologist from Liverpool.

John Ellis (1643–1738) was an English official and Member of Parliament.

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

John James Boland was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Health from January 1987 to March 1987, Minister for the Environment from 1986 to 1987, Minister for the Public Service from 1982 to 1986 and Minister for Education from 1981 to 1982. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1977 to 1989. He also served as a Senator for the Labour Panel from 1969 to 1977.

John de Courcy, 35th Baron Kingsale, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman who was the Premier Baron of Ireland.

John Hathaway Reed was the 67th Governor of Maine, holding office during the 1960s. He was once an Aroostook County potato farmer. Reed was a Republican who took office following the death of Governor Clinton Clauson.