John Mason may refer to:

Entertainment

* John Mason (playwright) (fl. 1609), British playwright * John Mason (poet) (1646–1694), English clergyman, poet, and hymn-writer * John B. Mason (1858–1919), American stage actor * John Mason (artist) (1927–2019), ceramic artist from Los Angeles, California * John M. Mason (musician) (1940–2011), Scottish solicitor, musician, composer and conductor * Ralph Mason (John Francis Mason, 1938–2016), English tenor

Politics

U.S.

John Thomson Mason John Thomson Mason (15 March 1765 – 10 December 1824) was an American lawyer and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806. Early life Mason was born on 15 March 1765 at Chopawamsic in Stafford County, Virginia. He was the third child and you ...

(1765–1824), American jurist and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806 *

John Thomson Mason (1787–1850) John Thomson Mason (January 8, 1787 – April 17, 1850) was an American lawyer, United States marshal, Secretary of Michigan Territory from 1830 through 1831, land agent, and an important figure in the Texas Revolution. Early life and ed ...

, American lawyer, United States marshal * 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 Thomson Mason Jr. John Thomson Mason Jr. (May 9, 1815 – March 28, 1873) was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, representing the sixth district from 1841 to 1843. Early life and education Born at the Montpelier estate near Hagerstown, Maryland, Mason was ed ...

(1815–1873), U.S. Representative from Maryland, son of John Thomson Mason (1765–1824)

U.K.

* John Mason (15th-century MP), Member of Parliament for Lewes and East Grinstead * John Mason (diplomat) (1503–1566), British diplomat and spy *

John Mason (governor) Captain John Mason (1586–1635) was a sailor and colonist who was instrumental to the establishment of various settlements in colonial America. Born in 1586 at King's Lynn, Norfolk, and educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1610, he was appoin ...

(1586–1635), founder of the Province of New Hampshire and governor of Newfoundland * John Mason (Scottish politician) (born 1957), Member of Parliament for Glasgow East and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston *

John Mason (British diplomat) Sir John Charles Moir Mason (13 May 1927 – 16 March 2008) was a British diplomat with Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service. He was the British Ambassador to Israel The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Israel is the United Kingdom's foremost ...

(1927–2008), UK High Commissioner to Australia

Elsewhere

* John James Mason (1842–1903), Canadian politician * John Mason (New Zealand politician) (1880–1975), New Zealand politician *

John Mason (Australian politician) John Mason may refer to: Entertainment * John Mason (playwright) (fl. 1609), British playwright * John Mason (poet) (1646–1694), English clergyman, poet, and hymn-writer * John B. Mason (1858–1919), American stage actor * John Mason (artist) ...

(born 1928), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Sir John Mason (died 1720), Irish MP for County Waterford * John Mason (died 1738), Irish MP for the city of Waterford *

John Monck Mason John Monck Mason (1726–1809) was an Irish politician and literary scholar. Life Born in Dublin, he was eldest son of Robert Mason of Mason-Brook, County Galway, by Sarah, eldest daughter of George Monck of St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. On 12 ...

(1726–1809), Irish politician and literary scholar

Science

John Alden Mason John Alden Mason (January 14, 1885 – November 7, 1967) was an American archaeological anthropologist and linguist. Mason was born in Orland, Indiana, but grew up in Philadelphia's Germantown. He received his undergraduate degree from the Unive ...

(1885–1967), archaeological anthropologist and linguist * John Mason (meteorologist) (1923–2015), British meteorologist * John Wayne Mason (1924–2014), American physiologist and stress researcher

Sports

* John Mason (American football) (fl. 1920s–1950s), American college football player and coach * John Mason (announcer), sports announcer for the Detroit Pistons basketball team * John Mason (cricketer) (born 1984), English cricketer * John Mason (runner) (born 1987), Canadian long-distance runner * John Mason (soccer) (born 1953), Scottish-American soccer defender *

Jack Mason John Richard Mason (26 March 1874 – 15 October 1958), known as Jack Mason, was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club between 1893 and 1914, captaining the team between 1898 and 1902. He pla ...

(John Richard Mason, 1874–1958), cricketer

Others

* John Mason (c. 1600–1672) (1600–1672), Commander of the Connecticut forces in the 1637 Pequot War * John Mason (minister) (1706–1763), English nonconformist minister and author * John Mason (businessman) (1773–1839), American banker * John Mason (planter) (1766–1849), American banker and planter, son of George Mason * John Charles Mason (1798–1881), British East India Company secretary and diplomat * John M. Mason (theologian) (1770–1829), American preacher and theologian * John Mason (outlaw) (died 1866), bushwhacker and bandit * John S. Mason (1824–1897), Union general in the American Civil War * John Landis Mason (1832–1902), who patented glass-threaded mason jars used in food preservation * John Mason (historian) (1920–2009), British historian and Oxford academic * John Mason (schoolmaster) (born 1945), Indian educationist * John Mason (astronomer), former president of the British Astronomical Association ** Minor planet 6092 Johnmason, named after him * John Mason (master), master of the ''Prince of Wales'' in the First Fleet

Other uses

John Mason School John Mason School is a secondary school with Sixth Form in the town of Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. History Established as a grammar school in 1960, Berkshire Education Committee named it John Mason School after sixteenth-century intelle ...

, a secondary school in Abingdon, UK.