John Powell

John Powell may refer to:

Politics and law

 * John Powell (MP for Cardigan) (died 1590s), MP for Cardigan
 * John Powell (1645–1713), English Member of Parliament for Gloucester, 1685–1689
 * John Joseph Powell (1816–1891), British Member of Parliament for Gloucester, 1862–1865
 * John Enoch Powell (1912–1998), British politician
 * John Powell (Canadian politician) (1809–1881), mayor of Toronto
 * John A.H. Powell (died 1843), political figure in upper Canada
 * John Powell (judge) (c. 1633 – 1696), Welsh judge
 * John Blake Powell (1870–1923), Irish judge
 * John William Powell (politician) (1928–2010), American politician

Sports

 * John Powell (footballer, born 1892) (1892–1961), English footballer
 * John Powell (footballer, born 1936) (1936–2017), English semi-professional footballer
 * John Powell (Australian footballer) (born 1937), Australian footballer for Collingwood and Fitzroy
 * John Powell (weightlifter) (1931–2008), Australian Olympic weightlifter
 * Jackie Powell (1871–1955), South African rugby union player
 * John Powell (cricketer) (1904–1959), New Zealand cricketer
 * John Powell (discus thrower) (1947–2022), American discus thrower
 * Jack Powell (runner) (1910–1982), English athlete

Others

 * John Powell (painter), British painter
 * Joseph Powell (painter) (1780–1833), English artist and teacher, sometimes called "John Powell"
 * John Wesley Powell (1834–1902), American geologist and explorer
 * John Powell (musician) (1882–1963), American pianist, composer, and eugenicist who promoted white separatist ideologies
 * John Powell (film composer) (born 1963), British composer
 * John Powell (physicist) (1923–1996), British physicist, creator of the EMI brain scanner
 * John W. Powell (1919–2008), American publisher of China Weekly Review, tried for sedition in 1956
 * John A. Powell (born 1947), American academic
 * John Powell (Jesuit) (1925–2009), American priest and author
 * John Frederick Powell (1915–2008), Royal Air Force officer
 * John Hare Powel (1786–1856), American agriculturist