John Wilson may refer to:

• John Wilson (historian) (1799–1870), author of Our Israelitish Origin (1840), a founding text of British Israelism
• John Wilson (agriculturalist) (1812–1888), British agriculturalist
• John Matthias Wilson (1814–1881), Oxford college head, clergyman and philosopher
• John Wilson (Scottish mathematician) (1847−1896)
• John Cook Wilson (1849–1915), English philosopher
• John Hardie Wilson (1858−1920), Scottish botanist
• J. Dover Wilson (John Dover Wilson, 1881–1969), British professor and scholar of Renaissance literature
• John A. Wilson (Egyptologist) (1899–1976), American Egyptologist
• John Wilson (industrial chemist) (1890–1976), British chemist
• John Wilson Jr., American professor of English in Japan before and during World War II
• John Long Wilson (1914–2001), American medical professor and university administrator
• John T. Wilson (1914–1990), president of the University of Chicago, 1975–1978
• John Wilson (philosopher, born 1928) (1928–2003), British philosopher of education
• John Stuart Wilson (born 1944), British mathematician
• John Silvanus Wilson, American academic administrator, president of Morehouse College
• John Wilson (public policy expert), professor of public policy and management at Glasgow Caledonian University

• John Wilson (English architect) (1781–1866), British Board of Ordnance clerk of works and architect in Guernsey
• John A. Wilson (topographical engineer) (1789–1833), American chief engineer on the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad
• John William Wilson (architect) (1829–1915), architect in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• John Moulder Wilson (1837–1919), Union and United States Army engineer
• John Appleton Wilson (1851–1927), American architect
• John Wilson (Scottish architect) (1877−1959), hospital architect and author
• John Armistead Wilson (1879–1954), Scottish-born Canadian engineer and aviation pioneer
• John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993), Canadian geophysicist

• Sir John Wilson (English judge) (1741–1793), English mathematician and judge
• John Wilson, Lord Ashmore (1857–1932), Scottish lawyer, parliamentary candidate, sheriff principal and judge
• John H. Wilson (judge), American judge from New York, author of the 2006 children's book Hot House Flowers

• John Wilson (British Army officer, died 1819) (c. 1765–1819), British general, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada in 1816
• Sir John Wilson (British Army officer, died 1856) (1780–1856), British general, acting Governor of British Ceylon in 1811–12 and 1831
• John Williams Wilson (1798–1857), English sailor
• John A. Wilson (Medal of Honor) (1833–1904), American Civil War recipient of the Medal of Honor
• John Wilson (Royal Navy officer) (1834–1885), British admiral
• John Moulder Wilson (1837–1919), U.S. Army general and Medal of Honor recipient
• John Wilson (Medal of Honor, born 1839), recipient of the Medal of Honor in the American Civil War
• John Wilson (Swedish sailor) (1851–1899), Swedish naval officer
• Jock Wilson (British Army soldier) (John Nicholson Wilson, 1903–2008), Scottish soldier and centenarian
• John Wilson (Garda) (born 1962/63), Irish Garda officer and whistleblower

• John Wilson (Dean of Ripon) (1586–1635), English Anglican priest and Dean of Ripon Minster, 1624–1634
• John Wilson (Puritan minister) (1591–1667), Puritan minister of the Boston Church in Massachusetts
• John Wilson (Scottish missionary) (1804–1875), Scottish missionary, educationalist, a founding father of Bombay
• John Marius Wilson (1805–1885), Scottish clergyman and writer
• John Alexander Wilson (missionary) (1809–1887), English Anglican missionary
• John Leighton Wilson (1809–1885), American missionary to West Africa
• John Wilson (Caddo) (1840–1901), leader in the Native American Church movement of the late 19th century
• John Wilson (Scottish priest) (1849–1926), Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh
• John Wilson (Royal Navy chaplain) (1890–1949), Anglican priest and Chaplain of the Fleet, 1943–1948
• Leonard Wilson (John Leonard Wilson, 1897–1970), Anglican bishop of Singapore
• John Wilson (bishop) (born 1968), Roman Catholic archbishop of Southwark, England

• John Wilson, an alias of John Smith (housebreaker) (c. 1661–after 1727), English housebreaker
• John Macaulay Wilson (fl. 1794–1827), African king and doctor
• John W. Wilson (1815–1883), Belgian art collector and businessman
• John West Wilson (1816–1889), British/Swedish businessman and arts patron
• John Wilson (philanthropist) (1826–1900), Irish-born pioneer of the American West
• John Wilson (businessman) (1829–1909), New Zealand farmer, soldier, judge
• J. S. Wilson (John Skinner Wilson, 1888–1969), Scottish scouting organizer
• Sir John Wilson, 2nd Baronet (1898–1975), Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection
• John C. Wilson (1899–1961), Broadway producer and director
• John Wilson (blind activist) (1919–1999), founder of International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
• Jock Wilson (police officer) (John Spark Wilson, 1922–1993), British police officer
• John S. Wilson (economist) (born 1956), American economist at the World Bank
• John Wilson (broadcaster) (born 1965), British journalist and broadcaster

• John Wilson (ice skating company), a British company
• John Wilson Orchestra, formed by British conductor John Wilson in 1994
• John W. Wilson, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive on the Great Western Railway in 1891–1915, renamed Walter Robinson in 1901

• John S. Wilson (disambiguation)
• John Skinner Wilson (disambiguation)
• Johnny Wilson (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Wilson (disambiguation)
• Jack Wilson (disambiguation)
• Jock Wilson (disambiguation)
• John Waterloo Wilson (disambiguation)
• John Wilson Walton-Wilson (1823–1910), English architect

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