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 (1765–1824), American jurist and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806 John Thomson Mason (1787–1850), 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. (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) (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) (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) (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 (1726–1809), Irish politician and literary scholar Science John Alden Mason (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, 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