Arts and Entertainment
- John Holmes (pornographic actor) (1944–1988), pornographic film star
- John Holmes (composer) (died 1629), English cathedral musician and Renaissance composer
- John Holmes (poet) (1904–1962), poet whose work appears in the Faber Book of Modern American Verse
- John Clellon Holmes (1926–1988), poet, novelist and essayist of the Beat Generation
- John Eric Holmes (1930–2010), author and promoter of fantasy role-playing games
- Jon Holmes (born 1973), British comedy writer and broadcaster
- Jonathan Holmes (theatre director) (born 1975), UK theatre director and writer
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“It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)