Sports Figures
- John Wilson (Australian rules footballer) (born 1940), former Australian rules football player for Richmond
- John Wilson (basketball) (born 1985), Filipino basketball player
- John Wilson (angler) (born 1943), British angler
- John Wilson (cyclist) (1876–1957), British Olympic road racing cyclist
- John Wilson (footballer born 1914) (1914–1988), English soccer player
- John Wilson (footballer born 1934), English professional footballer
- John Wilson (Australian rugby league) (born 1978), Australian rugby league player who has represented France
- John Wilson (New Zealand rugby league), New Zealand rugby league international
- John Wilson (soccer) (born 1977), American soccer player
- John Parker Wilson (born 1985), American football player
- John Wilson (1910s pitcher) (1890–1954), former MLB pitcher for the Washington Senators
- John Wilson (1920s pitcher) (1903–1980), former MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
- John Wilson (sport shooter) (1879–1940), Dutch sport shooter
- John Wilson (Yorkshire cricketer) (1857–1931), English cricketer
- Jack Wilson (cricketer) (1921–1985), Australian cricketer
- John Howard Wilson (born 1930), retired former professional rugby player for Scotland
- Jocky Wilson (John Thomas Wilson, 1950–2012), darts player
- John "Weenie" Wilson, American football player and multi-sport coach
- John Wilson (golfer) (born 1959), American professional golfer
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Famous quotes containing the words sports and/or figures:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The figures of the past go cloaked.
They walk in mist and rain and snow
And go, go slowly, but they go.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)