John Birch may refer to:
- John Birch (soldier) (Colonel) (1615–1691), soldier in the English Civil War and MP for Leominster
- John Birch (MP) (c.1666–1735), nephew of Col. Birch, MP for Weobley (UK Parliament constituency) expelled from the House of Commons
- John Birch (missionary) (1918–1945), or the John Birch Society named for him
- John Birch (luthier) (born 1922)
- John Birch (musician) (1929-2012)
- John Birch (diplomat), former British ambassador to Hungary and former British deputy ambassador to the United Nations
- John Birch (engineer)
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or birch:
“The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.”
—Bishop John Spong (b. 1931)
“The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,—these are the only traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the “South Sea”; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)