John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse (11 January 1771 – 31 May 1846), styled The Honourable John Wodehouse from 1797 to 1834, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.

Wodehouse was the eldest son of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse and Sophia Berkeley.^[1]

Wodehouse was elected to the House of Commons for Great Bedwyn in 1796, a seat he held until 1802. In the general election that year he stood for Norfolk, but was defeated by Thomas Coke and Sir Jacob Astley; he was likewise defeated by Coke and William Windham in the 1806 election. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk in 1821.^[1] He later represented Marlborough from 1818 to 1826. In 1834 he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords as a Conservative. Wodehouse was a Peelite, and gave his proxy to the ministry to vote for repeal of the Corn Laws in the Lords shortly before his death.^[1]

Lord Wodehouse married Charlotte Laura Norris, daughter of John Norris, of Witton Park, Norfolk, in 1796. They had eleven children:^[1]

• Norris John Wodehouse (May 1798 – 25 May 1819)
• Henry Wodehouse (1799 – 29 April 1834), married Anne Gurdon and left two sons:
  • John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826–1902)
  • Henry Wodehouse (27 May 1834 – 20 August 1873) was granted the rank of a baron's younger son in 1847. He married Mary Livingstone King, daughter of John Pendleton King, left no children. His widow later married Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey
• Sophia Laura Wodehouse (13 January 1801 – 1869), married Raikes Currie in 1825
• Vice-Admiral Edward Thornton-Wodehouse^[2] (5 June 1802 – 17 March 1874), RN, married Diana Thornton and left children
• Charlotte Laura Wodehouse (2 September 1803 – 1878), married Rev. Richard Phayre, left no children
• Henrietta Laura Wodehouse (30 March 1805 – aft. 1890), married John David Chambers in 1834
• Captain Berkeley Wodehouse (14 May 1806 – 13 September 1877), married Fanny Holmes and left children
• Caroline Elizabeth Laura (29 December 1810 – 1856), married John Whaites in 1836 and left children
• Cornet Bertram Wodehouse (30 April 1813 – 11 October 1856)
• Reverend Alfred Wodehouse (10 June 1814 – 6 September 1848), married Emma Hamilton Macdonald in 1840 and left children
• Emma Laura Wodehouse (d. 1820)

He died in 1846, aged 76, and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson John, who became a prominent Liberal politician and was created Earl of Kimberley in 1866.