John Ward

John Ward may refer to:

• John Ward (composer) (1571–1638), English composer
• John Ward (academic) (1679–1758), English Gresham Professor of Rhetoric
• John Ward (actor) (1704–1773), English actor
• John Ward, 2nd Viscount Dudley and Ward (1725–1788), British peer and politician
• John Ward (painter) (1798–1849), English landscape and animal painter
• John Ward (loyalist) (1753–1846), businessman and politician in New Brunswick
• John Ward (1779–1855), British Member of Parliament for Leominster
• John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1781–1833), British statesman, 1st Earl of Dudley
• John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward (1704–1774), British peer and politician
• John Ward (prophet) (1781–1837), Irish preacher and prophet
• John Ward (priest) (died 1860), English Anglican Dean of Lincoln
• John Ward (Medal of Honor) (1848–1911), American Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• John Ward (trade unionist) (1866–1934), English politician, trade union leader and soldier
• John Ward (outfielder), baseball outfielder in 1884
• John Ward (1920s footballer), association football player active in the 1920s
• John Ward (diplomat) (1909-1991), British ambassador to Argentina and Italy
• John Ward (RAF officer) (1921–1995), British airman, member of Polish resistance during Warsaw Uprising
• John Ward (American actor) (1923–1995), American actor
• John Ward (cricketer) (born 1937), New Zealand cricketer
• John Ward (Hampshire cricketer), English cricketer
• John Ward (Kent cricketer), cricketer
• John Ward (rugby) (1873–1939), English rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1890s
• John Ward (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s for Great Britain, England, Yorkshire, Castleford, and Salford
• John Ward (American football) (born 1948), American NFL player
• John Ward (footballer) (born 1951), Colchester United football club manager
• John Ward (broadcaster), former University of Tennessee football and men's basketball radio broadcaster
• John Ward (politician) (born 1950), retired educator and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
• John Ward, founder of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders
• John Aloysius Ward (1929–2007), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, 1983–2001
• John Chamberlain Ward (1857–1929), Roman Catholic Bishop of Leavenworth, 1911–1929
• John Clive Ward (1924–2000), British physicist
• John Devereux Ward (1925–2010), Conservative MP for Poole, 1979–1997
• John Elliott Ward (1814–1902), American diplomat and politician
• John Guthrie Ward, British diplomat
• John J. Ward (1920–2011), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles
• Sir John Macqueen Ward, Scottish businessman
• John Manning Ward (1919–1990), Vice Chancellor and history professor at the University of Sydney
• John Montgomery Ward (1860–1925), American baseball player
• John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910), American sculptor
• John Sebastian Marlowe Ward (1885–1949), British historian, Freemason and spiritualist
• John Stanton Ward (1917–2007), English painter
• John T. Ward, Jr. (born 1945), horse trainer
• John William Ward (professor) (1922–1985), professor of English and history, and president of Amherst College
• John William Ward (manager) (born 1942), British trade unionist and opera administrator
• Johnny Ward (1862–1899), Major League Baseball pitcher
• T. John Ward (born 1943), United States federal judge, Eastern District of Texas
• John Ward, father of British murder victim Julie Ward