Politicians
- John Cotton (fl. 1379-1388), MP for Cambridge 1379-1388
- John Cotton (MP died 1593), MP for Cambridgeshire 1553, 1554
- John Cotton (died 1620/1), MP for Cambridgeshire 1593
- Sir John Cotton, 2nd Baronet, MP for Cambridge 1689-90, 1696, 1705
- Sir John Hynde Cotton, 3rd Baronet (1686–1752), English Jacobite MP for Cambridge 1708-22,1727-41 Cambridgeshire 1722-27, Marlborough 1741-52
- Sir John Cotton, 3rd Baronet (1621–1702), MP for Huntingdon 1661 and Huntingdonshire 1685
- Sir John Cotton, 4th Baronet (c. 1680–1731), MP for Huntingdon 1705 and Huntingdonshire 1710-13
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