John Montagu was the 4th Earl of Sandwich and a British naval leader, best known as the namesake of the Sandwich Islands.

• Royalty, Military Leader
  (c. 1718–1792)

Nobel Prize winning English novelist and playwright John Galsworthy is remembered for evoking Victorian and Edwardian upper middle-class life in his work.

• Author, Playwright, Poet
  (1867–1933)

English Jacobean dramatist John Fletcher collaborated with Francis Beaumont and other dramatists on comedies and tragedies between about 1606 and 1625.

• Playwright
  (c. 1579–1625)

Often referred to as the "penman of the Revolution," John Dickinson was an American statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress and one of the writers of the Articles of Confederation.

• Journalist, General
  (1732–1808)

John Bunyan was a celebrated English minister and author of The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), the most characteristic expression of the Puritan religious outlook.

• Journalist, Preacher, Minister
  (c. 1628–1688)

British serial killer John Christie murdered at least six women, including his wife, before being arrested and hanged in 1953.

• Murderer
  (1899–1953)

John Milton, English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, is best known for writing "Paradise Lost," widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English.

• Poet, Historian, Writer
  (1608–c. 1674)

John Wesley was an Anglican clergyman, evangelist, and founder, with his brother Charles, of the Methodist movement in the Church of England.

• Evangelist, Philanthropist
  (1703–1791)