Politicians
- John Long (politician) (c. 1419–1478), English Member of Parliament for Cricklade
- John Long (c.1517-c.1600/2), MP for Knaresborough, Hedon, Shaftesbury and Newcastle-under-Lyme
- John Long (Irish politician), member of the Parliament of Ireland in 1689 for Midleton, County Cork
- John Long (North Carolina politician) (1785–1857), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
- John Davis Long (1838–1915), Governor of Massachusetts, later the U.S. Secretary of the Navy
- John Andrew Long (1869–1941), Senator in Northern Ireland
- John B. Long (1843–1924), U.S. Representative from Texas
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