John Downes may refer to:
- John Downes (regicide) (1609–c. 1666), English commissioner convicted of regicide of Charles I of England at the restoration of Charles II
- John Downes (prompter) (died c. 1712), English theatre prompter for most of the Restoration period, 1660–1700
- John Downes (naval officer) (1786–1854), American Commodore and ship captain in the United States Navy
- John Downes (sailor) (1870–1943), British Olympic sailing gold medalist in 1908
- John K. Downes, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, 1922–1927
Famous quotes containing the word john:
“And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
That dying chose the living world for text
And never could have rested in the tomb
But that, long travelling, he had come
Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
In a most desolate stony place....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)