Scientists and Academics
- John Allen (historian) (1771–1843), historian and political writer painted in 1836 by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
- John F. Allen (Jack Allen, 1908–2001), Canadian physicist who worked on superfluid helium
- John P. Allen (born 1929), co-founder of the Biosphere 2 Center
- John R. L. Allen, British geologist
- John S. Allen (1907–1982), interim president of the University of Florida, 1953–1955, first president of the University of South Florida, 1957–1970
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