John Reading may refer to:
- John Reading (clergyman) (1588–1667), English Calvinist and Biblical commentator.
- John Reading (composer) (c. 1645 – 1692), father of:
- John Reading (composer, organist and copyist) (c. 1685 – 1764)
- Colonel John Reading (d. 1717), father of Governor John Reading (New Jersey)
- John Reading (New Jersey) (1686–1767), Acting Colonial Governor of New Jersey, 1747–48, 1757–58
- John Roberts Reading (1826–1886), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
- John H. Reading (1917–2003), Mayor of Oakland, California 1966–1977
Famous quotes containing the word reading:
“‘Tis to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept into thousands besides herself,—of reading straight forwards, more in quest of the adventures, than of the deep erudition and knowledge which a book of this cast, if read over as it should be, would infallibly impart.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)