Honest John may refer to:

Politicians

United Kingdom

  • John Battersby, councillor in Glasgow and trade union leader
  • John Bowen (alderman), High Sheriff of Worcestershire
  • John Fielden, British politician
  • Mad Jack Fuller, British politician who preferred to be known as "Honest John" Fuller
  • John Lilburne (1614 – 1657), English Leveller during the English Civil Wars

United States

  • John Davis (Massachusetts governor)
  • John H. Farley, Mayor of Cleveland
  • John Hart (New Jersey politician)
  • John Hunn (governor), Governor of Delaware
  • John Kelly (New York politician), Tammany Hall politician
  • John Letcher, Governor of Virginia
  • John Lind (politician), Governor of Minnesota
  • John Moore (Illinois), Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois
  • John J. Patterson (1830–1912) United States senator from South Carolina
  • John Holbrook Powers, Nebraska politician
  • John F. Shafroth, Governor of Colorado
  • John Sparks (Nevada politician)
  • John Walsh (Dakota politician)
  • John Whiteaker, Governor of Oregon
  • John J. Williams (senator)

Elsewhere

  • John Martin (Young Irelander), Irish politician
  • John Tonkin, Australian politician
  • John White (New Zealand politician)

Athletes

  • John Anderson (outfielder), baseball player
  • John Barham Day, jockey
  • John Clapp (baseball), baseball player
  • John Eubank, baseball player
  • John Gaffney (baseball), baseball umpire
  • John Kelly, baseball player nicknamed "Kick Kelly" and "Honest John"
  • John McCloskey (baseball manager)
  • John McKenna, rugby player
  • John Morrill, baseball player
  • John A. Warren, football player
  • John Katan, wrestler

Fictional characters

  • "Honest John" Worthington Foulfellow, a character in Disney's 1940 film Pinocchio
  • a character in the 1986 An American Tail
  • a character in Marvel Comics' S-Men
  • a character in Belle of the Yukon
  • the protagonist of an 1875 novel by John William De Forest

Other uses

  • Honest John Plain, guitarist with The Boys
  • the MGR-1 Honest John, a nuclear-capable missile
  • John Philip Wood, Scots historian
  • John Brown Russwurm, abolitionist
  • John Crocker, officer in the British Army
  • John Roberts, 18th-century Irish architect
  • John Stephenson (coachbuilder)
  • a 1959 single produced by Felton Jarvis
  • Honest Jon's, a record store
  • "Honest John", a type of open bar where patrons serve themselves and leave payment in a jar or drawer, on the honor system.