John Brown

Politicians

Sports

Religion

• John Brown (Covenanter) (1627–1685), Scottish Protestant martyr
• John Brown (essayist) (1715–1766), English clergyman
• John Brown (theologian) (1722–1787), Scottish clergyman and Biblical commentator
• John Brown (Vicar of St Mary's, Leicester) (died 1845), eloquent British evangelical preacher
• John Brown (minister) (1784–1858), Scottish clergyman and writer
• John Newton Brown (1803–1868), Baptist teacher, minister and publisher
• John Brown (writer) (1830–1922), Doctor of Divinity, pastor of Bunyan's Chapel, and author of many works of theology and church history
• John Henry Hobart Brown (1831–1888), Episcopal bishop of Fond du Lac
• John J. Brown, American Roman Catholic priest and educator
• John Brown (bishop) (1931–2011), Anglican bishop
• John Brown (Mormon pioneer) (1820–1897)
• John M. Brown (1817–1852), bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal church
• John Brown (moderator) (1850–1919), Scottish minister
• John E. Brown (1879–1957), American evangelist, founder of John Brown University

Military

• John Brown (British Army officer) (died 1762), British Army general
• John Brown (British Army soldier) (died 1964), UK spy and POW during the Second World War
• John Brown of Pittsfield (1744–1780), American Revolutionary War officer
• John Brown (Medal of Honor) (1838–?), American sailor and peacetime Medal of Honor recipient
• John Brown (sailor) (1826–1883), American sailor and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
• John H. Brown (Medal of Honor) (1842–1898), American soldier and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
• John M. Brown III, Lieutenant General in the United States Army
• John S. Brown, United States Army brigadier general; Chief Historian of the United States Army Center of Military History
• John Brown Jr. (Navajo) (1921–2009), American Navajo Code Talker during World War II
• John Harties Brown (1834–1905), Canadian soldier who fought in the American Civil War

Doctors and professors

• John Brown (doctor) (1735–1788), Scottish physician who developed his own medical “system”
• John Brown (physician) (1810–1882), Scottish physician and essayist
• John Campbell Brown (born 1947), Scottish astronomer and professor
• John H. Brown (scholar), American scholar of public diplomacy
• John Ronald Brown (1922–2010), unlicensed United States sex-change operation surgeon
• John Browne (anatomist) (1642–1702), British anatomist and surgeon
• John Lott Brown (1924–2011), university administrator and professor

Entertainers

• John Brown (actor) (1904–1957), English radio and film actor
• Johnny Brown (actor) (born 1937), American actor and singer
• John Moulder-Brown (born 1953), British actor
• John Brown, rapper and contestant on Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show
• John Brown, American television news anchor for KTVI

Visual artists

• John Brown (artist) (1752–1787), Scottish artist
• John Crawford Brown (1805–1867), Scottish landscape painter
• John Lewis Brown (1829–1892), French battle, animal, and genre painter
• John George Brown (1831–1913), American painter born Durham, England
• John William Brown (artist) (1842–1928), English painter and stained glass designer
• John Appleton Brown (1844–1902), American painter
• John Arnesby Brown (1866–1955), English landscape artist

Other people

• John Brown (American author) (born 1966), novelist and short story writer
• John Brown (architect) (1805–1876), British architect
• John Brown (brewer) (1795–1890), English brewer
• John Brown (builder) (1809–1876), prolific Canadian builder best remembered for building Ontario's Imperial Towers
• John Brown (educator) (1763–1842), third president of the University of Georgia
• John Brown (fugitive slave) (c. 1810–1876), writer of Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings and Escape of John Brown published in London, UK 1855
• John Brown (geographer) (1797–1861), English geographer
• Sir John Brown (industrialist) (1816–1896), UK inventor of a process for rolling armor-plate and founder of the Atlas steelworks, Sheffield Towers
• John Brown (trade unionist) (1880/81–1961), British trade union leader and local councillor
• John A. Brown Jr. (died 1997), American murderer executed in Louisiana for the murder of Omer Laughlin
• John Mason Brown (1900–1969), United States literary critic
• John Nicholas Brown I (1861–1900), book collector
• John Nicholas Brown II (1900–1979), heir of the Brown fortune and U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR) 1946–49
• John Robert Brown (judge) (1909–1993), member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, noted for his key decisions in favor of civil rights
• John W. Brown (British trade unionist) (1886–?), British activist, general secretary of the International Federation of Trade Unions
• John W. Brown (labor leader) (1867–1941), Canadian-born labor leader in the United States
• John W. Brown (set decorator), set decorator who won an Academy Award
• John W. Brown (corporate executive), formerly of Stryker Corporation
• John Macmillan Brown (1845–1935), Scottish-New Zealand academic, administrator and promoter of education for women
• John Carter Brown (1797–1874), book collector
• John Crosby Brown (1838–1909), partner in Brown Bros. & Co.
• Sir John McLeavy Brown (1835–1926), British lawyer and diplomat
• John Gregory Brown (born 1960), American novelist
• John Seely Brown (born 1940), researcher in organizational studies
• John Croumbie Brown (1808–1895), author, minister of religion and forestry pioneer in South Africa
• John Brown (1723–1808), Scottish-Danish merchant and shipowner
• John Ednie Brown (1848–1899), author on sylviculture and state conservator of forests