Howard Johnson may refer to:
- Howard Johnson's, a chain of hotels and restaurants
- Howard Deering Johnson (1897–1972), founder of Howard Johnson's restaurants
- Howard David Johnson, (born 1950s), American painter
- Howard Johnson (baseball) (born 1960), American baseball player
- Howard Johnson (cricketer) (born 1964), American cricketer
- Howard Johnson (electrical engineer), in signal integrity and high speed electronic circuit design
- Howard Johnson (lyricist) (1887–1941), American song-writer
- Howard Johnson (politician) (1910–2000), British Conservative politician in the 1950s, MP for Brighton Kemptown
- Howard R. Johnson (1903–1944), commander of the U.S. Army 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II
- Howard R. Johnson (inventor) (d. 2008), inventor of a perpetual motion device
- Howard Earl Johnston (1928–2001), Canadian politician
- Howard Wesley Johnson (1922–2009), former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Howie Johnson, (born c.1930), PGA Tour professional golfer
- Musicians
- Howard Johnson (jazz musician) (born 1941), post-bop on tuba and baritone saxophone
- Howard Johnson (soul singer), Miami-born R&B vocalist who had several hits during the early 1980s
- Howard E. Johnson (1908–1991), American swing saxophonist
- Howie Johnson (drummer), former drummer for The Ventures
Famous quotes containing the words howard johnson, howard and/or johnson:
“The improved American highway system ... isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway ... he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson’s nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“The personal touch between the people and the man to whom they temporarily delegated power of course conduces to a better understanding between them. Moreover, I ought not to omit to mention as a useful result of my journeying that I am to visit a great many expositions and fairs, and that the curiosity to see the President will certainly increase the box receipts and tend to rescue many commendable enterprises from financial disaster.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)