John Hawkins

John Hawkins may refer to:

Public officials

 * John Hawkins (naval commander) (1532–1595), English admiral
 * John Hawkins (17th century diplomat), ambassador of the Kingdom of England to France, 1626–1627
 * John Hawkins (MP) (c. 1611–?), English politician
 * John Hawkins (burgess), member of the Virginia House of Burgesses
 * John Hawkins (Maryland politician), American politician
 * John Heywood Hawkins (1802–1877), British politician
 * John Parker Hawkins (1830–1914), U.S. Civil War brigadier general
 * John Joseph Hawkins (1840–1916), politician in Ontario, Canada
 * John A. Hawkins (New York politician) (1864–1941), New York politician
 * John J. Hawkins (1855–1935), American jurist and politician in the Arizona Territory
 * John Clifford Hawkins (1879–?), African American lawyer and political figure
 * John Hawkins (diplomat) (born 1960), British ambassador to Qatar
 * John D. Hawkins (born 1968), South Carolina politician

Writers

 * John Hawkins (grammarian) (c. 1587–c. 1641), English physician, grammarian and translator
 * John Hawkins (author) (1719–1789), English music historian
 * John Sidney Hawkins (baptised 1758–1842), English antiquarian, son of the music historian
 * John Hawkins (geologist) (1761–1841), English geologist and writer
 * John A. Hawkins (linguist) (born 1950), English linguist

Musicians

 * John Hawkins (English composer), co-composed 1964's Canterbury Tales
 * John Hawkins (Canadian composer) (1944–2007), Canadian classical composer
 * Big Hawk, American rapper whose real name was John Hawkins (1969–2006)

Other

 * John Hawkins (archdeacon of Totnes) (1903–1965), Anglican priest
 * John Hawkins (archdeacon of Hampstead) (born 1963)
 * John Isaac Hawkins (1772–1855), engineer and inventor of the upright piano, a mechanical pencil and a letter copying machine (the polygraph)
 * John Russell Hawkins (1862–1939), American professor and college president
 * John Hawkins (athlete) (born 1949), Canadian high jumper
 * John Hawkins (rower), Australian rower
 * John Hawkins (Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge), Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1728–1733
 * TSS Sir John Hawkins (1929), passenger tender vessel