Clergymen and Missionaries
- John Wilson (Puritan) (1591–1667), Puritan minister of the Boston Church in Massachusetts
- John Wilson (Dean of Ripon), Anglican priest and Dean of Ripon Minster 1624–1634
- John Wilson (missionary) (1804–1875), Scottish missionary, educationalist; a founding father of Modern Mumbai (Bombay)
- John Wilson (Caddo) (1840–1901), leader in the Native American Church movement of the late 19th century
- John Wilson (priest) (1849–1926), Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh
- John Wilson (Chaplain of the Fleet), Anglican priest and Chaplain of the Fleet, 1943–1948
- John Leonard Wilson (1897–1970), former Anglican Bishop of Singapore
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