Politics, Law and Public Service
- John Stevens (immigrant) (1682–1737), immigrant to America, Port Collector at Perth Amboy
- John Stevens (New Jersey) (c. 1716–1792), delegate to the Continental Congress
- John Stevens (New Zealand politician) (1845–1916), politician
- John Stevens (Royal Navy officer) (1900–1989), British admiral
- John Stevens (admiral) (born 1927), Australian Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (1979–1981)
- John Stevens (English politician) (born 1955), founder of the Pro-Euro Conservative Party
- John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington (born 1942), former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
- John Austin Stevens (1827–1910), founder of the Sons of the Revolution
- John Christopher Stevens (1960–2012), American diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Libya
- John H. Stevens (1820–1900), built the first house west of the Mississippi in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota
- John Harvey Stevens (died 1866), Royal Marines officer
- John L. Stevens (1820–1895), U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
- John Paul Stevens (born 1920), U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice (1975–2010)
- John S. Stevens (1838–?), Illinois lawyer
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