# John Holmes

John or Jon Holmes may refer to:

## People
### Arts and entertainment

* John Holmes (actor) (1944–1988), American pornographic actor and murder suspect
* John Holmes (composer) (died 1629), English musician and composer
* John Holmes (poet) (1904–1962), American poet
* John Clellon Holmes (1926–1988), American Beat poet, novelist and essayist
* John Eric Holmes (1930–2010), American author and promoter of fantasy role-playing games
* John W. Holmes (film editor) (1917–2001), American film editor
* Jon Holmes (born 1973), British comedy writer and broadcaster

### Diplomacy

* John Holmes (British diplomat) (born 1951), British diplomat
* John T. Holmes, Canadian ambassador to Indonesia and East Timor
* John Wendell Holmes (1910–1988), Canadian diplomat and academic

### Education

* John Holmes (geographer), Australian professor of geography
* John Holmes (schoolmaster) (1703–1760), English schoolmaster
* John Clough Holmes (1809–1887), American merchant; Agricultural College of the State of Michigan progenitor

### Military or mercenary service

* John Holmes (British Army officer) (born 1949), British general
* John Holmes (mercenary), 19th century Anglo-Indian mercenary
* John Holmes (Royal Navy officer) (1640?–1683), English naval officer

### Politics

* John Holmes (by 1529 – 1583), MP for Ripon and Boroughbridge
* John Holmes (died 1556 or later), MP for Rye
* John Holmes (Maine politician) (1773–1843), member of U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives
* John Holmes (New Zealand politician) (1831–1910), New Zealand Member of Parliament
* John Holmes (Nova Scotia politician) (1789–1876), Canadian Senator
* John Holmes (Ontario politician) (1828–1879), Canadian MP
* John Bee Holmes (1760–1827), intendant (mayor) of Charleston, South Carolina
* John Edwin Holmes (1809–1863), first Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
* John Robert Holmes (1927–2011), Canadian MP
* John Holmes (Jamaican politician) (1763–1836), planter, slave-owner and member of the House of Assembly of Jamaica

### Religion

* John Holmes (bishop) (died 1904), Anglican colonial bishop
* John Haynes Holmes (1879–1964), American churchman and pacifist
* John McClellan Holmes (1834–1911), Christian minister and author

### Sports

* John Holmes (footballer) (1869–?), English footballer
* John Holmes (cricketer) (Rodney Holmes, 1924–1980), English cricketer
* Johnny Holmes, American baseball player of the 1940s
* John Holmes (rugby league) (1952–2009), English former rugby league footballer
* John Holmes (rugby league, born 1904) (1904–1931), Australian rugby league player
* John Holmes (golfer) (JB Holmes, born 1982), American golfer
* John Holmes (American football) (born 1953), American football player

### Other fields

* John Holmes (essayist) (1815–1894), radical campaigner
* John Holmes (Messenger of the Plymouth Court) (1603–?), Plymouth Colony settler and official
* John Henry Holmes (1857–1935), English electrical engineer, inventor and Quaker
* John Dalrymple Edgar Holmes (1867–1915), British veterinary scientist and bacteriologist

## Fictional characters

* John Hamish Adler Holme or Auguste Lupa, a fictional character in novels by John Lescroart