John Drinkwater is the name of:
- John Drinkwater Bethune (1762–1844), English officer and military historian
- John Drinkwater (playwright) (1882–1937), English poet and dramatist
- John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune (1801–1851), pioneer in women's education in India
- John Drinkwater (musician, technologist) (born 1957), English composer and technologist
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or drinkwater:
“Well, I know you haven’t had much experience writing and none at all in pictures. But I’ve heard about you. It all sounded like you’re just the man I wanted for a story about the Navy. I don’t want a story just about ships and planes. I want a story about the officers.... I want this story from a pen dipped in salt water not dry martinis. Do you know what I mean?”
—Frank Fenton, William Wister Haines, co-scenarist, and John Ford. John Dodge (Ward Bond)
“At the top of the house the apples are laid in rows,”
—John Drinkwater (1882–1937)