Public Officials
- John Hastings (died c.1585), MP for Reading, Leicester, Bridport and Poole
- John Hastings (Ohio) (1778–1854), Irish-born American Democratic lawyer, farmer and U.S. congressman
- John Simpson Hastings (1898–1977), American jurist from Indiana
- John Hastings (Ontario) (born 1942), Canadian legislator
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