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)

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)

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)

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

• Murderer
  (1899–1953)

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)

John Paul Jones was an American naval hero in the American Revolution. He was renowned for his victory over British ships of war off the east coast of England.

• Military Leader
  (1747–1792)

British film and theater director John Schlesinger’s first American film, Midnight Cowboy (1969), won him an Academy Award.

• Director
  (1926–2003)