John Parsons may refer to:
- John Parsons (Lord Mayor of London)
- John Parsons (bishop) (1761–1819), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
- John Parsons (missionary) (d.1869), reviser of the Hindi Bible
- John T. Parsons (1913–2007), pioneer in Numerical control for machine tools
- John Parsons (musician), member of Acoustic Alchemy
- John Parsons (politician) (1868–1949), Canadian mariner, merchant and politician
- John Parsons (footballer) (born 1950), Welsh footballer
- John Parsons (criminal) (born 1971), American FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive who has been captured
- Jack Parsons (cricketer) (1890–1981), English cricketer also known as John Parsons
- Johnny Parsons (born 1944), American racecar driver
- John Denham Parsons (1861–?), writer
- John Whiteside Parsons (1914–1952), American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology
- John Langdon Parsons (1837–1903), Cornish Australian politician
- John Meeson Parsons (1798–1870), art collector
- John Edward Parsons (1829–1915), lawyer in New York City
- John Parsons (organist)
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or parsons:
“Well, I know you haven’t had much experience writing and none at all in pictures. But I’ve heard about you. It all sounded like you’re just the man I wanted for a story about the Navy. I don’t want a story just about ships and planes. I want a story about the officers.... I want this story from a pen dipped in salt water not dry martinis. Do you know what I mean?”
—Frank Fenton, William Wister Haines, co-scenarist, and John Ford. John Dodge (Ward Bond)
“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other—only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”
—Talcott Parsons (1902–1979)