John Whitehead

• John Meek Whitehead (1852–1924), American politician in Wisconsin
• John C. Whitehead (1922–2015), American banker and civil servant
• John Whitehead (diplomat) (1932–2013), British diplomat and businessman
• John Whitehead (economist), secretary of the New Zealand Treasury
• John L. Whitehead, member of the Virginia House of Delegates

• John Whitehead (footballer) (fl. 1890s), English footballer
• John Whitehead (baseball) (1909–1964), American baseball player for the Chicago White Sox
• John Whitehead (American football) (1924–2002), American football coach
• John Whitehead (cricketer) (1925–2000), English cricketer

• John Whitehead (theologian), 15th-century Irish theologian
• John Whitehead (architect) (1726–1802), English architect and amateur engineer, designer of the Factory House in Porto
• John Whitehead (physician) (1740–1804), English physician and lay preacher; biographer of John Wesley
• John Whitehead (explorer) (1860–1899), British explorer
• J. H. C. Whitehead (1904–1960), British mathematician
• John B. Whitehead (1872–1954), American electrical engineer and a professor at Johns Hopkins University
• John L. Whitehead Jr. (1924–1992), American military and test pilot
• John Whitehead (singer) (1948–2004), American singer and one-half of the duo McFadden & Whitehead
• John M. Whitehead (soldier) (1823-1909), American chaplain and Medal of Honor recipient
• John W. Whitehead, constitutional attorney and conservative author, founder of the Rutherford Institute in 1982

• Jonathan Whitehead (born 1960), composer

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