Military
- John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore (1685–1752), Scottish peer and British Army general
- Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet (1768–1827), general, led a brigade under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War
- John Ivor Murray (1824–1903), Scottish surgeon who practised in China, Hong Kong and then in Sebastopol in the Crimean War
- John Murray (VC) (1837–1911), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- John Murray (general) (1892–1951), general in the Australian Army
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