John Johnston

John Johnston may refer to:

Entertainment

• John Johnston (poet) (c. 1570–1611), Scottish poet and academic
• John S. Johnston (c. 1839–1899), American maritime photographer
• Johnnie Johnston (1915–1996), American actor and singer
• John Dennis Johnston (born 1945), American actor

Politics

• John W. Johnston (mayor) (1774–1854), St. Louis, Missouri, US
• John Johnston (Indian agent) (1775–1861), US
• John Johnston (Nova Scotia politician) (1790–1836)
• John Johnston (New Zealand politician) (1809–1887)
• John W. Johnston (1818–1889), senator from Virginia, US
• John Johnston (Australian politician) (1823–1872)
• John R. Johnston (died 1863), mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, US
• John Kenneth Johnston (1865–1945), Canadian politician
• John Frederick Johnston (1876–1948), Canadian politician
• John B. Johnston (1882–1960), U.S. Representative
• John Stewart Johnston (1905/6–?), Northern Irish politician
• John Baines Johnston (1918–2005), British diplomat
• John Johnston (courtier) (1922–2006), UK
• J. Bennett Johnston (1932–2025), U.S. Senator
• John Benjamin Johnston, Canadian politician

Sports

• John Johnston (footballer, born 1878) (1876–1955), Scottish footballer (Bury FC, Southampton FC)
• John Johnston (football full-back), footballer for Sunderland
• John Johnston (footballer, born 1902) (1902–1987), Scottish international footballer
• John Johnston (footballer, born 1921) (1921–1989), Scottish footballer (Motherwell FC, Hamilton Academical)
• Johnny Johnston (baseball) (1890–1940), American baseball player
• Johnny Johnston (cricketer) (1953–2008), English cricketer
• Johnny Johnston (footballer) (born 1947), Northern Irish footballer

Other

• Sir John Johnston, 3rd Baronet (c. 1648–1690), Scottish soldier
• John Johnston (chemist) (1881–1950), Scottish-born chemist
• John Johnson (architect, born 1732) (1732–1814) English architect
• John Johnston (fur trader) (1762–1828), British
• John Johnston (merchant) (1781–1851), Scottish-American merchant
• John Johnston (farmer) (1791–1880), Scotland
• John Taylor Johnston (1820–1893), founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• John R. Johnston (1826–1895), landscape and panorama painter
• John Lawson Johnston (1839–1900), Scottish businessman
• John Johnston (priest) (1852–1923), Anglican clergyman
• John Johnston (schoolmaster) (1871– 1938), a British educator
• John McQueen Johnston (1901–1987), Scottish physician
• John Johnston (econometrician) (1923–2003), British academic
• John V. Johnston (died 1912), U.S. Navy officer
• John Johnston (physiotherapist), Scottish-born Australian physiotherapist
• John Johnston, 13-year-old boy murdered in 1923 by Susan Newell in Coatbridge, Scotland
• Johnny Johnston of The Johnston Brothers

See also

• John Jonston (1603–1675), Polish scholar, physician, naturalist, botanist, and entomologist
• John Johnson (disambiguation)
• John Johnstone (disambiguation)
• Johnnie or Johnny Johnston (disambiguation)