Honest John

Honest John may refer to:

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 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 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.