Military Figures
- John Simpson (soldier) (1748–1825), American Revolutionary War soldier at the Battle of Bunker Hill
- John Simpson (VC) (1826–1884), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- John Simpson Kirkpatrick (1892–1915), Australian World War I war hero (who enlisted as "John Simpson")
- John Herbert Thomas Simpson (1907–1967), senior RAF officer in the mid 1950s and eighth Commandant Royal Observer Corps
- John Simpson (British Army officer) (1927–2007), British Army officer and Director SAS
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