Nobility
- Several members of the Butler dynasty
- John Butler of Clonamicklon (died 1330), youngest son of Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick
- John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond (before 1449–1478)
- John Butler of Kilcash (died 1570), third son of James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond
- John Butler, 1st Earl of Gowran (1643–1677), seventh son of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde
- John Butler, 12th Baron Dunboyne (1731–1800), Irish clergyman and aristocrat, Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork
- John Butler, 17th Earl of Ormonde (1740–1795), Irish peer and Member of Parliament
- John Butler, 2nd Marquess of Ormonde (1808–1854), Irish politician and peer
- John Butler, 15th Earl of Ormonde (before 1744–1766)
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“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
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