John or Jon Holmes may refer to:

People

Arts and entertainment

  • John Holmes (actor) (1944–1988), American pornographic actor and murder suspect
  • John Holmes (composer) (died 1629), English musician and composer
  • John Holmes (poet) (1904–1962), American poet
  • John Clellon Holmes (1926–1988), American Beat poet, novelist and essayist
  • John Eric Holmes (1930–2010), American author and promoter of fantasy role-playing games
  • John W. Holmes (film editor) (1917–2001), American film editor
  • John Holmes (radio presenter) MBE, associated with BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Nottingham
  • Jon Holmes (born 1973), British comedy writer and broadcaster

Diplomacy

  • John Holmes (British diplomat) (born 1951), British diplomat
  • John T. Holmes, Canadian ambassador to Indonesia and East Timor
  • John Wendell Holmes (1910–1988), Canadian diplomat and academic

Education

  • John Holmes (geographer), Australian professor of geography
  • John Holmes (schoolmaster) (1703–1760), English schoolmaster
  • John Clough Holmes (1809–1887), American merchant; Agricultural College of the State of Michigan progenitor

Military or mercenary service

  • John Holmes (British Army officer) (born 1949), British general
  • John Holmes (mercenary), 19th century Anglo-Indian mercenary
  • John Holmes (Royal Navy officer) (1640?–1683), English naval officer

Politics

  • John Holmes (by 1529 – 1583), MP for Ripon and Boroughbridge
  • John Holmes (died 1556 or later), MP for Rye
  • John Holmes (Maine politician) (1773–1843), member of U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives
  • John Holmes (New Zealand politician) (1831–1910), New Zealand Member of Parliament
  • John Holmes (Nova Scotia politician) (1789–1876), Canadian Senator
  • John Holmes (Ontario politician) (1828–1879), Canadian MP
  • John Bee Holmes (1760–1827), intendant (mayor) of Charleston, South Carolina
  • John Edwin Holmes (1809–1863), first Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
  • John Robert Holmes (1927–2011), Canadian MP
  • John Holmes (Jamaican politician) (1763–1836), planter, slave-owner and member of the House of Assembly of Jamaica

Religion

  • John Holmes (bishop) (died 1904), Anglican colonial bishop
  • John Haynes Holmes (1879–1964), American churchman and pacifist
  • John McClellan Holmes (1834–1911), Christian minister and author

Sports

  • John Holmes (footballer) (1869–?), English footballer
  • John Holmes (cricketer) (Rodney Holmes, 1924–1980), English cricketer
  • Johnny Holmes, American baseball player of the 1940s
  • John Holmes (rugby league) (1952–2009), English former rugby league footballer
  • John Holmes (rugby league, born 1904) (1904–1931), Australian rugby league player
  • John Holmes (golfer) (JB Holmes, born 1982), American golfer
  • John Holmes (American football) (born 1953), American football player

Other fields

  • John Holmes (antiquary) (1800–1854), English antiquarian
  • John Holmes (essayist) (1815–1894), radical campaigner
  • John Holmes (Messenger of the Plymouth Court) (1603–?), Plymouth Colony settler and official
  • John Henry Holmes (1857–1935), English electrical engineer, inventor and Quaker
  • John Dalrymple Edgar Holmes (1867–1915), British veterinary scientist and bacteriologist

Fictional characters

  • John Hamish Adler Holme or Auguste Lupa, a fictional character in novels by John Lescroart

See also

  • John Holm (disambiguation)
  • Jack Holmes (disambiguation)
  • Jonathan Holmes (disambiguation)