Politicians
- John Gordon (Aberdeen MP) (c. 1655–1730), Scottish MP 1708–1710
- John Gordon (soldier) (c. 1776–1858), MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
- John Brown Gordon (1832–1904), Confederate general in the American Civil War, Georgia governor, U.S. senator
- John Gordon (Irish lawyer) (1849–1922), Irish MP 1900–1916
- John Gordon (Conservative politician) (1850–1915), MP for Elginshire and Nairnshire, 1895–1906, and Brighton, 1911–1914
- John Hannah Gordon (1850–1923), Australian politician
- John Fawcett Gordon (1879–1965), MP in the Northern Ireland parliament for Antrim and Carrick
- Peter Gordon (New Zealand politician) (John Bowie Gordon, 1921–1991), New Zealand politician
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