John Small may refer to:
- John Small (British Army officer) (1726–1796), active in the American Revolutionary War
- John Small (cricketer) (1737–1826), English cricketer
- Jack Small (1765–1836), English cricketer
- John Small (politician) (1746–1841), political figure in Upper Canada
- John Small (librarian) (1828–1886), librarian of Edinburgh University
- John Small (Member of Parliament) (1831–1909), member of the Canadian House of Commons
- John Francis Small, Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for County Wexford, 1883–1885 and South Down, 1885–1886
- John Humphrey Small (1858–1946), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
- John Kunkel Small (1869–1938), American botanist
- John Small (American football) (born 1946), American football player
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or small:
““Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents. . . . The end of the world is evidently approaching.” Sound familiar? It is, in fact, the lament of a scribe in one of the earliest inscriptions to be unearthed in Mesopotamia, where Western civilization was born.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)