John Dent

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John Dent may refer to:

  • A number of early settlers and planters related to Charles County, Maryland:
    • Captain John Dent (c. 1645-1712), English-born American settler, planter and magistrate, nephew of Thomas Dent, Sr.
    • General John Dent (1733-1809), politician, magistrate and general in the Revolutionary War, father of George Dent
    • Captain John H. Dent (1782–1823), officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War and the First Barbary War, grandson of General John Dent
  • John Dent (1751-1811), English founder of Dents leather goods
  • John Dent (died 1826) (c. 1760–1826), British Member of Parliament for Lancaster and Poole
  • John Dent (merchant), (1821-1892), Hong Kong and Shanghai businessman
  • John Dent Dent (1826–1894), British Whig/Liberal MP for Knaresborough and Scarborough
  • John Charles Dent (1841–1888), Canadian historian
  • Johnny Dent (born 1903), English former footballer
  • John H. Dent (politician) (1908–1988), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
  • John Dent, character in Across the Continent