John Payne may refer to:
- John Payne (actor) (1912–1989), American film actor and singer
- John Payne (American football) (born 1933), American football coach
- John Payne (bishop of Liberia) (1815–1874), missionary bishop from the Episcopal Church to Liberia
- John Payne (bishop of Meath) (died 1507)
- John Payne (engraver) (1607–1647), English engraver
- John Payne (martyr) (1532–1582), English Catholic priest martyr
- John Payne (poet) (1842–1916), English poet and translator
- John Payne (politician) (1871–1942), New Zealand politician
- John Payne (rugby) (1858–1942), English rugby union footballer
- John Payne (singer) (born 1958), lead singer and bassist of Asia
- John Payne (umpire) (1844–1928), Test match umpire
- John Payne (voice actor) (born 1960), English-born Canadian voice actor
- John Barton Payne (1855–1935), United States Secretary of the Interior, 1920–1921
- John D. Payne (born 1950), Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- John Howard Payne (1791–1852), American actor and playwright
- John Somers Payne (born 1926), Irish Olympic sailor
- John Willett Payne (1752–1803), British admiral
- John William Payne (politician) (1877–1933), Louisiana sheriff
- Johnny Payne, dramatist, novelist, scholar, and professor
- Jack Payne (John Wesley Vivian Payne, 1899–1969), British bandleader
- "Sunshine" Sonny Payne (John William Payne, born 1925), American radio presenter
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“This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and No.”
—Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)