John V may refer to:
- John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria from 606 to 616
- Patriarch John V of Constantinople, Patriarch from 669 to 675
- Pope John V, Pope from 685 to his death in 686
- John V the Historian, Catholicos of Armenia from 897 to 925
- John V of Gaeta (c. 1010–1040)
- John V of Naples, Duke from 1036 to 1042
- John V Palaiologos (1332–1391), Byzantine Emperor from 1341
- John V, Duke of Brittany (1339–1399)
- John V, Duke of Mecklenburg (1418–1443)
- John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1504–1551)
- John V of Portugal (1689–1750), King of Portugal and the Algarves
- John 5 (guitarist)
Famous quotes containing the word john:
“No such sermons have come to us here out of England, in late years, as those of this preacher,—sermons to kings, and sermons to peasants, and sermons to all intermediate classes. It is in vain that John Bull, or any of his cousins, turns a deaf ear, and pretends not to hear them: nature will not soon be weary of repeating them. There are words less obviously true, more for the ages to hear, perhaps, but none so impossible for this age not to hear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)