John Clarke may refer to: Arts John Clarke Whitfield (1770–1836), English organist and composer John Sleeper Clarke (1833–1899), American/British actor and manager John Louis Clarke (1881–1970), Blackfoot wood carver from Montana John S. Clarke (1885–1959), British lion tamer, politician, poet, newspaper editor and art expert Bryan Forbes or John Theobald Clarke (1926–2013), English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist John Clarke (actor) (1931–2019), American soap opera actor from Days of Our Lives John Clarke (poet) (1933–1992), American poet John Clarke (satirist) (1948–2017), New Zealand/Australian satirist and actor John Cooper Clarke (born 1949), British performance poet, active since the late 1970s John Clarke (museum curator) (1954–2020), British museum curator, expert in Ladakhi and Tibetan metalwork John Clarke (physician, 1582–1653), English physician John Clarke (physician, 1761–1815), English physician and obstetrician Business John Clarke, whaler and one of the discoverers of Jan Mayen John Clarke (businessman) (1773–1846), American businessman from Saratoga Springs, New York John Clarke (fur trader) (1781–1852), Hudson's Bay Company fur trader Government and politics Canada John Clarke (Upper Canada) (born 1780s- died 1862), merchant and politician in Upper Canada John Fitzgerald Clarke (1827–1887), Ontario, Canada MPP John M. Clarke (1854–1936), lumber merchant, contractor and political figure on Prince Edward Island John Clarke (activist), Canadian political activist and founder of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty New Zealand John Clarke (public servant), New Zealand public servant United Kingdom John Clarke (fl. 1601), MP for Haslemere John Clarke (died 1675), English landowner and politician Richard Cromwell or John Clarke (1626–1712), second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland John Clarke (Roundhead) (fl. 1648–1681), English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1653 and 1660, and fought for Parliament in the English Civil War and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland John Creemer Clarke (1821–1895), British Member of Parliament United States John Hopkins Clarke (1789–1870), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1847–1852 John Clarke (Michigan politician) (1797–1876), American businessman, farmer, and politician John Jones Clarke (1803–1887), American politician in the Massachusetts legislature John C. Clarke (1831–1906), American politician in the Wisconsin legislature John Blades Clarke (1833–1911), U.S. representative from Kentucky, 1875–1876 John Proctor Clarke (1856–1932), judge in New York State John Hessin Clarke (1857–1945), associate justice of the US Supreme Court John D. Clarke (1873–1933), U.S. representative from New York, 1921–1924 and 1927–1934 John Clark (Georgia governor) (sometimes spelled Clarke; 1766–1832), Governor of Georgia from 1819 to 1823 Military Sir John Clarke