List of Famous people named John

Sir John Davidson Beazley, was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1956.

John William Hargreaves was an Australian actor. He won three Australian Film Institute Awards and was nominated six times.

John Griesemer is an American author, journalist, and actor. He lives with his wife Faith Catlin and two children in New Hampshire. He is best known for his novel Signal and Noise.

Saint Giovanni Gualberto was an Italian Roman Catholic abbot and the founder of the Vallumbrosan Order. Born into a noble family, Gualberto was a predictably vain individual who sought pleasure in vanities and romantic intrigues. When his older brother Ugo was murdered, Gualberto set out for revenge. He found the murderer in Florence, but as it was Good Friday, granted the killer's plea for mercy. Soon after Gualberto became a member of the Order of Saint Benedict though he left in order to found his own congregation. He condemned nepotism and all simoniacal actions and was known for the pureness and meekness of his faith. Even popes held him in high esteem.

John S. Harrison Jr. is an American filmmaker, musician, and composer best known for his collaborations with director George A. Romero and for writing-directing the miniseries adaptation of Dune.

John Dennis Corriveau is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served successively as the seventy-first Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and the sixth Bishop of Nelson.

John Murray Forbes was an American diplomat. He served as the Chargé d'Affaires to the Republic of Buenos Aires from 1825 to 1831.

John Edward Illsley is an English musician, best known as bass guitarist of the rock band Dire Straits. With it, he has received multiple BRIT and Grammy Awards, and a Heritage Award.

John Alan McPherson was an American cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter.