John Wise may refer to:
- John Wise (clergyman) (1652–1725), Massachusetts divine who protested taxation
- John Wise (balloonist) (1808–1879), American ballooning pioneer
- John Ayshford Wise (1810–1865), British MP for Stafford
- John Clayton Wise, Baron Wise (1923-2012)
- John Sergeant Wise (1846–1913), U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- John Wise (politician) (born 1935), former Canadian Minister of Agriculture
- John A. Wise, American scientist
- John Wise (Entrepreneur)
Famous quotes containing the word wise:
“All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)