Writers and Academics
- John Cooper (author) (born 1958), Canadian writer and communications specialist
- John M. Cooper (born 1940), American scholar
- John Gilbert Cooper (1723–1769), British poet and miscellaneous writer
- John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich (born 1929), English historian
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