People
- John Henry, Margrave of Moravia (1322–1375)
- John Henry (Maryland) (1750–1798), U.S. Senator from and Governor of Maryland
- John Joseph Henry (1758–1811), American Revolutionary War soldier
- John Vernon Henry (1767–1829), American politician, New York State Comptroller
- John Henry (spy) (c. 1776–1853), British spy
- John Flournoy Henry (1793–1873), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
- John Henry (representative) (1800–1882), U.S. Representative from Illinois
- John Snowdon Henry (died 1896), British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for South-East Lancashire
- John Henry (outfielder/pitcher) (1863–1939), major league baseball outfielder/pitcher, 1884–1890
- John Henry (catcher) (1889–1941), major league baseball catcher, 1910–1918
- John Henry (toxicologist) (1939–2007), English toxicologist, professor at Imperial College London and a consultant to Britain's National Poisons Information Service
- John Raymond Henry (born 1943), sculptor
- John W. Henry (born 1949), American businessman, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FC
- John Henry (Oshawa politician) (Born 1960), elected 2010, is the present mayor of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
- John Henry (footballer) (Born 1971), Scottish footballer
- Jack Henry, American football player
- John Henry (folklore), the "steel-driving man", American folk hero
- John Henry (historian), British historian of science associated with the Strong Programme
- John Henry Martin, see John Henryism
- John Henry (New Zealand Justice), New Zealand Privy Councillor and Court of Appeal Justice
- John Henry (vocalist), vocalist in the metalcore band Darkest Hour
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“Mighty few young black women are doin’ domestic work. And I’m glad. That’s why I want my kids to go to school. This one lady told me, “All you people are gettin’ like that.” I said, “I’m glad.” There’s no more gettin’ on their knees.”
—Maggie Holmes, African American domestic worker. As quoted in Working, book 3, by Studs Terkel (1973)
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—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don’t have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know about things, and their pride from showing off what they know. But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)