John Mason may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • John Mason (playwright) (fl. 1609), British playwright
  • John Mason (poet) (1646–1694), English clergyman, poet, and hymn-writer
  • John B. Mason (1858–1919), American stage actor
  • John Mason (artist) (1927–2019), American ceramic artist
  • Ralph Mason (John Francis Mason, 1938–2016), English tenor
  • John M. Mason (musician) (1940–2011), Scottish solicitor, musician, composer and conductor

Business and industry

  • John Mason (planter) (1766–1849), American banker and planter, son of George Mason
  • John Mason (businessman) (1773–1839), American banker
  • John Charles Mason (1798–1881), British East India Company secretary and diplomat
  • John Landis Mason (1832–1902), American tinsmith; patented glass-threaded mason jars for food preservation

Law and politics

Ireland

  • Sir John Mason (died 1720), Irish MP for County Waterford
  • John Mason (died 1738), Irish MP for the city of Waterford
  • John Monck Mason (1726–1809), Irish politician and literary scholar

U.K.

  • John Mason (15th-century MP), Member of Parliament for Lewes and East Grinstead
  • Sir John Mason (diplomat, born 1503) (1503–1566), British diplomat and spy
  • John Mason (governor) (1586–1635), founder of the Province of New Hampshire and governor of Newfoundland
  • Sir John Mason (diplomat, born 1927) (1927–2008), UK High Commissioner to Australia
  • John Mason (Scottish politician) (born 1957), Member of Parliament for Glasgow East and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston

U.S.

  • John Thomson Mason (1765–1824), American jurist and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806
  • John Thomson Mason (1787–1850), American lawyer, United States marshal
  • John Y. Mason (1799–1859), U.S. Representative from Virginia and Secretary of the Navy
  • John Calvin Mason (1802–1865), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
  • John Thomson Mason Jr. (1815–1873), U.S. Representative from Maryland, son of John Thomson Mason (1765–1824)
  • John W. Mason (1842–1917), Commissioner of Internal Revenue and justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
  • John E. Mason (1854–1910), American politician and judge from Virginia

Elsewhere

  • John James Mason (1842–1903), Canadian politician
  • John Mason (New Zealand politician) (1880–1975), New Zealand politician
  • John Mason (Australian politician) (born 1928), Australian politician

Military

  • John Mason (colonist) (1600–1672), Commander of the Connecticut forces in the 1637 Pequot War
  • John Mason (master) (fl. 1780s), English master of the Prince of Wales in the First Fleet
  • John S. Mason (1824–1897), Union general in the American Civil War

Science and medicine

  • John Alden Mason (1885–1967), American archaeological anthropologist and linguist
  • John Mason (meteorologist) (1923–2015), British meteorologist
  • John Wayne Mason (1924–2014), American physiologist and stress researcher

Sports

  • Jack Mason (John Richard Mason, 1874–1958), English cricketer
  • John Mason (American football) (fl. 1920s–1950s), American college football player and coach
  • John Mason (soccer) (born 1953), Scottish-American soccer defender
  • John Mason (cricketer) (born 1984), English cricketer
  • John Mason (runner) (born 1987), Canadian long-distance runner
  • John Mason (announcer), American sports announcer

Others

  • John Mason (minister) (1706–1763), English nonconformist minister and author
  • John M. Mason (theologian) (1770–1829), American preacher and theologian
  • John Mason (outlaw) (died 1866), American bushwhacker and bandit
  • John Mason (historian) (1920–2009), British historian and Oxford academic
  • John Mason (schoolmaster) (1945–2023), Indian educationist

Other uses

  • John Mason School, a secondary school in Abingdon, UK
  • 6092 Johnmason, minor planet named for the British astronomer John Mason

See also

  • Mason (surname)
  • John Thomson Mason (disambiguation)
  • Jonathan Mason (disambiguation)