John Mason

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

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
 * John Mason (diplomat) (1503–1566), British diplomat and spy
 * John Mason (governor) (1586–1635), founder of the Province of New Hampshire and governor of Newfoundland
 * John Mason (British diplomat) (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 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), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

Military

 * John Mason (c. 1600–1672) (1600–1672), Commander of the Connecticut forces in the 1637 Pequot War
 * John Mason (master) (fl. 1780s), 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) (born 1945), Indian educationist

Other uses

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