John Smedley may refer to:
- Jonathan Smedley (1671-1729), Anglo-Irish churchman and satirical victim
- John Smedley (industrialist), 19th century Derbyshire industrialist
- John Smedley (developer), president of Sony Online Entertainment
- John Smedley (British Army officer)
- John Smedley (architect) (1841-1903), the first Australian-born architect
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or smedley:
“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
“Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.”
—Agnes Smedley (1890–1950)