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- 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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