John Clarke - United States

United States

  • John Clarke (Baptist minister) (1609–1676), co-founder of Rhode Island
  • John Clarke (Congregationalist minister) (1755–1798), minister, First Church, Boston, Massachusetts
  • John Clarke (poet) (1933–1992), American poet
  • John Clarke (general), American general in the Creek War (1813–1814), from Georgia
  • John Clarke (fur trader) (1781–1852), Hudson's Bay Company fur trader
  • John Clarke (actor) (born 1932), American soap opera actor from Days of Our Lives
  • John Blades Clarke (1833–1911), U.S. representative from Kentucky, 1875–1876
  • John D. Clarke (1873–1933), U.S. representative from New York, 1921–1924 and 1927–1934
  • John Hessin Clarke (1857–1945), associate justice of the US Supreme Court
  • John Hopkins Clarke (1789–1870), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1847–1852
  • John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998), self-taught scholar who became an authority on African history and an advocate for Black Studies
  • John Jones Clarke (1803–1887), American politician in the Massachusetts legislature
  • John L. Clarke (1905–1991), served as president of Ricks College
  • John Louis Clarke (1881–1970), Blackfoot wood carver from Montana
  • John Proctor Clarke (1856–1932), judge in New York State
  • John Sleeper Clarke (1833–1899), American/British actor and manager
  • J. Richard Clarke (born 1927), leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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