John Ward may refer to:
- John Ward (composer) (1571–1638), English composer
- John Ward (academic) (1679–1758), English Gresham Professor of Rhetoric
- John Ward (actor) (1704–1773), English actor
- John Ward, 2nd Viscount Dudley and Ward (1725–1788), British peer and politician
- John Ward (painter) (1798–1849), English landscape and animal painter
- John Ward (loyalist) (1753–1846), businessman and politician in New Brunswick
- John Ward (1779–1855), British Member of Parliament for Leominster
- John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1781–1833), British statesman, 1st Earl of Dudley
- John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward (1704–1774), British peer and politician
- John Ward (prophet) (1781–1837), Irish preacher and prophet
- John Ward (priest) (died 1860), English Anglican Dean of Lincoln
- John Ward (Medal of Honor) (1848–1911), American Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- John Ward (trade unionist) (1866–1934), English politician, trade union leader and soldier
- John Ward (outfielder), baseball outfielder in 1884
- John Ward (1920s footballer), association football player active in the 1920s
- John Ward (diplomat) (1909-1991), British ambassador to Argentina and Italy
- John Ward (RAF officer) (1921–1995), British airman, member of Polish resistance during Warsaw Uprising
- John Ward (American actor) (1923–1995), American actor
- John Ward (cricketer) (born 1937), New Zealand cricketer
- John Ward (Hampshire cricketer), English cricketer
- John Ward (Kent cricketer), cricketer
- John Ward (rugby) (1873–1939), English rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1890s
- John Ward (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s for Great Britain, England, Yorkshire, Castleford, and Salford
- John Ward (American football) (born 1948), American NFL player
- John Ward (footballer) (born 1951), Colchester United football club manager
- John Ward (broadcaster), former University of Tennessee football and men's basketball radio broadcaster
- John Ward (politician) (born 1950), retired educator and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
- John Ward, founder of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders
- John Aloysius Ward (1929–2007), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, 1983–2001
- John Chamberlain Ward (1857–1929), Roman Catholic Bishop of Leavenworth, 1911–1929
- John Clive Ward (1924–2000), British physicist
- John Devereux Ward (1925–2010), Conservative MP for Poole, 1979–1997
- John Elliott Ward (1814–1902), American diplomat and politician
- John Guthrie Ward, British diplomat
- John J. Ward (1920–2011), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles
- Sir John Macqueen Ward, Scottish businessman
- John Manning Ward (1919–1990), Vice Chancellor and history professor at the University of Sydney
- John Montgomery Ward (1860–1925), American baseball player
- John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910), American sculptor
- John Sebastian Marlowe Ward (1885–1949), British historian, Freemason and spiritualist
- John Stanton Ward (1917–2007), English painter
- John T. Ward, Jr. (born 1945), horse trainer
- John William Ward (professor) (1922–1985), professor of English and history, and president of Amherst College
- John William Ward (manager) (born 1942), British trade unionist and opera administrator
- Johnny Ward (1862–1899), Major League Baseball pitcher
- T. John Ward (born 1943), United States federal judge, Eastern District of Texas
- John Ward, father of British murder victim Julie Ward
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or ward:
“I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.”
—Bishop John Spong (b. 1931)
“Mister Ward, don’t yur blud bile at the thawt that three million and a half of your culled brethren air a clanking their chains in the South?—Sez I, not a bile! Let ‘em clank!”
—Artemus Ward (1834–1867)