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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“Women hock their jewels and their husbands’ insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)