Courtiers and Politicians
- John Seymour (MP for Bristol), in 1351, MP for Bristol (UK Parliament constituency)
- Sir John Seymour (1474–1536), father of Queen Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England
- John Seymour (died 1567), MP for Great Bedwyn
- John Seymour (died 1552), MP for Wootton Bassett
- John Seymour (died 1618), MP for Great Bedwyn (UK Parliament constituency)
- John Seymour (died 1491), Wiltshire and Somerset landowner, grandfather of Queen Jane Seymour
- John F. Seymour (born 1937), former Senator from California
- John Seymour (Maryland), royal governor of the Maryland colony, 1704–1709
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