John Doyle may refer to:

The arts and entertainment

  • John Doyle (Canadian artist) (born 1950), Toronto artist
  • John Doyle (comedian) (born 1953), Australian comedian and writer
  • John Doyle (critic) (born 1957), Canadian television critic
  • John Doyle (director) (born 1953), British theatre director
  • John Doyle (drummer) (born 1959), drummer for bands Magazine and the Armoury Show
  • John Doyle (Irish artist) (1797–1868), Irish artist and grandfather of Arthur Conan Doyle
  • John Doyle (guitarist), Irish musician with Solas and Usher's Island
  • John Doyle, a pen-name of Robert Graves

Military

  • John Doyle (British Army soldier) (1828–1892), Irish cavalryman in the Charge of the Light Brigade
  • John Doyle (RAF officer) (1895–1974), British World War I flying ace
  • John Milley Doyle (1781–1856), Anglo-Irish soldier

Politics

  • Sir John Doyle, 1st Baronet (1756–1834), Irish officer, Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, Private Secretary to George IV
  • John Doyle (Australian politician) (1875–1951), New South Wales politician
  • John Doyle (West Virginia politician) (born 1942), member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
  • John H. Doyle (1844–1919), Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio
  • John Paul Doyle (born 1942), American politician in the New Jersey General Assembly

Sports

  • John Doyle (baseball) (1858–1915), Canadian Major League Baseball player
  • Jack Doyle (baseball) (1869–1958), American baseball player
  • Jack Doyle (boxer) (1913–1978), Irish boxer and actor
  • John Doyle (Carlow hurler) (born 1992), Irish hurler
  • John Doyle (rugby league) (born 1977), Australian
  • John Doyle (soccer, born 1946), Australian
  • Ally Doyle (born 1949), John Alexander Doyle, Northern Irish footballer, see List of Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players (25–99 appearances)
  • John Doyle (soccer, born 1966), American
  • John Doyle (Tipperary hurler) (1930–2010), Irish
  • John Joe Doyle (1906–2000), Irish hurler
  • Johnny Doyle (Gaelic footballer) (born 1977), Kildare
  • Johnny Doyle (hurler) (born 1957), Irish former hurler
  • Johnny Doyle (Scottish footballer) (1951–1981), Scottish footballer for Celtic F.C.

Others

  • John Doyle (engineer), American control theorist, professor at California Institute of Technology
  • John Doyle (academic), Physicist, professor at Harvard
  • John Doyle (judge) (born 1945), Chief Justice of South Australia
  • John Doyle (police officer) (died 1913), New Zealand police officer killed in the line of duty
  • John Andrew Doyle (1844–1907), English historian

See also

  • John Doyle Group, British civil engineering contractor
  • Jack Doyle (disambiguation)