John Whitehead may refer to:
- John Whitehead (theologian), 15th-century Irish theologian
- John Meek Whitehead (1852–1924), Wisconsin politician
- John Whitehead (explorer) (1860–1899), British explorer
- J. H. C. Whitehead (1904–1960), British mathematician
- John B. Whitehead (1872–1954), American electrical engineer and a professor at Johns Hopkins University
- John Whitehead (footballer), former Liverpool F.C. player, 1894–1896
- John Whitehead (baseball) (1909–1964), American baseball player for the Chicago White Sox
- John C. Whitehead (born 1922), Chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, former Deputy Secretary of State, former Senior Partner at Goldman Sachs
- John Whitehead (cricketer) (1925–2000), English cricketer
- John Whitehead (singer) (1949–2004), American singer and one-half of the duo McFadden & Whitehead
- John Whitehead (New Zealand), Secretary of the New Zealand Treasury
- John Whitehead (American football) (1924–2002), American football coach
- John W. Whitehead, constitutional attorney and conservative author, founder of the Rutherford Institute
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or whitehead:
“Love-light of Spain—hurrah!
Death-light of Africa!
Don John of Austria
Is riding to the sea.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Every philosophy is tinged with the colouring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.”
—Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)