John Whitfield may refer to:
- John Whitfield (conductor) (b. 1957), British musician and conductor
- John Whitfield (poet), Oxford Professor of Poetry
- John Whitfield (politician) (b. 1941), Conservative English Member of Parliament elected in 1983 for Dewsbury
- James Whitfield (Mississippi) (1791–1875), Governor of Mississippi 1851–1852
- John Clarke Whitfield (1770–1836), English organist and composer
- John Wilkins Whitfield (1818–1879), U.S. House Delegate from Kansas Territory