John Dickinson may refer to:
- John Dickinson (politician) (1732–1808), lawyer, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania, signer of U.S. Constitution, and namesake of Dickinson College
- John D. Dickinson (1767–1841), lawyer and U.S. Representative from New York
- John Dickinson (inventor) (1782–1869), founder of the paper mills at Apsley and Nash Mills in Hertfordshire, England
- John Dickinson (bishop) (1901–1993), Assistant English Bishop of Melanesia
- John Dickinson (rugby league) (born 1934), rugby league footballer of the 1950s for England, and St Helens RLFC
- John Dickinson (author) (born 1962), English author of young adult novels
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or dickinson:
“This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.”
—Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
“I stepped from Plank to Plank
A slow and cautious way”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)