John or Johnny Cunningham may refer to:

Military

  • John Cunningham (officer) (fl. 1689), Anglo-Irish soldier at the Siege of Derry
  • John Cunningham, 15th Earl of Glencairn (1749–1796), Scottish nobleman, cavalry officer, and priest
  • John Cunningham (Royal Navy officer) (1885–1962), RN, First Sea Lord
  • John Cunningham (VC 1917) (1890–1917), Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment
  • John Cunningham (VC 1916) (1897–1941), East Yorkshire Regiment
  • John Cunningham (RAF officer) (1917–2002), RAF night fighter ace, nicknamed 'Cat's Eyes'

Politics and law

  • Sir John Cunningham, 1st Baronet (died 1684), member of the Parliament of Scotland
  • John Cunningham (Nova Scotia judge) (fl. 1761–1785), Canadian judge and politician
  • John Cunningham (Nova Scotia politician) (1776–1847), Canadian farmer, official and politician
  • John Cunninghame, Lord Cunninghame (1782–1854), Scottish judge
  • John Cunningham (Australian politician) (1867–1949), Australian politician in Western Australia
  • J. M. A. Cunningham (1912–1996), Australian politician in Western Australia
  • John E. Cunningham (1931–2025), U.S. Representative from Washington
  • John F. Cunningham (died 1954), Irish surgeon and member of the 7th Seanad of Ireland
  • John M. Cunningham, American attorney and member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council

Religion

  • John William Cunningham (1780–1861), evangelical clergyman of the Church of England
  • John Cunningham (moderator) (1819–1893), General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1886
  • John Francis Cunningham (bishop) (1842–1919), Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
  • John Cunningham (bishop) (1938–2021), Roman Catholic bishop of Galloway, Scotland

Science and medicine

  • John Francis Cunningham (surgeon) (1875–1932), British ophthalmic surgeon
  • John R. Cunningham (1927–2020), Canadian medical physicist
  • John Cunningham (physician) (born 1949), physician to the Queen of the United Kingdom

Sports

  • John Cunningham (cricketer) (1854–1932), New Zealand cricketer
  • John Cunningham (Scottish footballer) (1868–?), Scottish footballer
  • John Cunningham (baseball) (1892–1922), Negro leagues shortstop
  • John Crabbe Cunningham (1927–1980), Scottish mountaineer
  • John Cunningham (rugby league) (born 1952), English rugby league footballer of the 1970s, for England, and Barrow
  • John Cunningham (Australian footballer) (born 1974), Geelong, Norwood and Port Melbourne player
  • John Cunningham (Gaelic footballer) (fl. 1980s–1990s), played for Donegal
  • John Cunningham (Northern Ireland footballer), football coach and former football player

Writers

  • John Cunningham (poet and dramatist) (1729–1773), Irish pastoral poet and dramatist
  • John W. Cunningham (1915–2002), American author of Western novels and stories
  • John T. Cunningham (1915–2012), American journalist, writer, and historian
  • John Cunningham (journalist) (1945–2012), Irish newspaper editor

Others

  • John Cunningham (sorcerer) (aka "Doctor Fian", died 1591), Scottish schoolmaster executed for sorcery in the North Berwick witch trials
  • John Cunningham (explorer) (c. 1575–1651), Scottish explorer for Denmark
  • John Cunningham (architect) (1799–1873), Scottish architect
  • John Cunningham (voyageur) (1817–1870), Canadian voyageur
  • Juan Cunningham (1817–1871), British businessman
  • John Patrick Cunningham (1947–1974), Irish mentally handicapped man who was killed by the British Army
  • John Rood Cunningham (1891–1980), American academic, president of Davidson College
  • Johnny Cunningham (1957–2003), Scottish folk musician
  • John Cunningham (Irish criminal), Irish kidnapper and illicit drug smuggler
  • John James Cunningham (1904–2004), American painter, teacher, and founder of the Carmel Art Institute in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
  • John Cunningham (actor) (1932–2026), American actor

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Other uses

  • Human polyomavirus 2, referred as "John Cunningham virus"

See also

  • Jack Cunningham (disambiguation)