John Montagu is the name of:
- John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (1350–1400), English nobleman
- John Montagu (Trinity) (c. 1650–1728), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1683–1699
- John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690–1749), British peer
- John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), British statesman
- John Montagu (Royal Navy officer) (1719–1795), Commodore Governor for Newfoundland and Labrador, 1776–1778
- John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich (1744–1814), British peer and Tory politician
- John George Montagu (1767–1790), eldest son of 5th Earl of Sandwich, British MP for Huntingdon in 1790
- John Montagu (colonial secretary) (1797–1853), Tasmanian colonial secretary 1834–1842
- John Montagu, Marquess of Monthermer (1735–1770), British peer
- John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich (born 1943), British entrepreneur, politician and nobleman
- John Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich (1811–1884), British peer and Conservative politician
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or montagu:
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“I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing—it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)