John Mason

John Mason may refer to:

Politicians

• John Mason (15th-century MP), Member of Parliament for Lewes and East Grinstead
• John Mason (Australian politician) (born 1928), Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
• John Mason (diplomat) (1503–1566), British diplomat and spy
• John Mason (British diplomat) (1927–2008), UK High Commissioner to Australia who remained there at the end of his term
• John Mason (governor) (1586–1635), founder of the Province of New Hampshire and governor of Newfoundland
• John Mason (Scottish politician) (born 1957), Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston and former Member of Parliament for Glasgow East
• John Mason (New Zealand politician) (1881–1975), New Zealand politician
• John Thomson Mason, Jr. (1815–1873), U.S. Representative from Maryland, son of John Thomson Mason (1765–1824)
• John Y. Mason (1799–1859), U.S. Representative from Virginia and Secretary of the Navy
• John Calvin Mason (1802–1865), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
• John James Mason (1842–1903), Canadian politician
• John Thomson Mason (1765–1824), American jurist and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806
• John Thomson Mason (1787–1850), American lawyer, United States marshal, Secretary of Michigan Territory from 1830 through 1831

Sports

• John Mason (soccer) (born 1953), Scottish-American soccer defender
• John Mason (announcer), sports announcer for the Detroit Pistons basketball team
• John Mason (cricketer) (born 1984), English cricketer
• Jack Mason (John Richard Mason, 1874–1958), cricketer

Soldiers

• John Mason (c. 1600–1672), Commander of the Connecticut forces in the 1637 Pequot War
• John S. Mason (1824–1897), Union general in the American Civil War

Others

• John Mason (artist) (born 1927), ceramic artist from Los Angeles, California
• John Mason (businessman) (1773–1839), American merchant and banker, president of Chemical Bank and founder of the New York and Harlem Railroad
• John Mason (historian) (1920–2009), British historian and Oxford academic
• John Mason (outlaw) (died 1866), bushwhacker and bandit
• John Mason (planter) (1766–1849), early American merchant, banker, businessman, and planter, son of George Mason
• John Mason (playwright) (fl.1609), British playwright
• John Mason (schoolmaster) (born 1945), Indian educationist
• John Landis Mason (1832–1902), patentee for glass-threaded mason jars used in food preservation
• John B. Mason (1858–1919), American stage actor
• Basil John Mason (1923–2015, also known as John Mason), British meteorologist
• John Mason (master), master of the Prince of Wales in the First Fleet
• John Alden Mason (1885–1967), archaeological anthropologist and linguist
• John Mason (poet) (1646–1694), English clergyman, poet and hymn-writer
• John Charles Mason (1798–1881), British East India Company servant
• John Wayne Mason (born 1924–2014), American physiologist and stress researcher

Characters

• John Mason, character in The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Character portrayed by Sean Connery in the 1996 film The Rock

See also

• Jonathan Mason (disambiguation)
• John Mason School, a state secondary school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire named after John Mason (diplomat)