John Clay may refer to:
- Sir John Clay, combatant in the Wars of the Roses
- John Clay (chaplain)
- John Granby Clay
- John Morrison Clay (1821–1887), American horse breeder
- Johnnie Clay (1898–1973), English cricketer
- John Clay (1924–2011), English cricketer
- The Red-Headed League, a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle with a character named John Clay
- John Clay (offensive tackle) (born 1964), football player who played for the Los Angeles Raiders and San Diego Chargers
- John Clay (running back) (born 1988), football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
- John Cecil Clay (1875–1930), American illustrator
- John P. Clay (born 1934), investment banker and founder of the Clay Sanskrit Library
- John Randolph Clay, American diplomat
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or clay:
“Love-light of Spain—hurrah!
Death-light of Africa!
Don John of Austria
Is riding to the sea.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as he will, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)