Politics
- John Wright (MP for Bedford), MP in 1391 for Bedford
- John and Christopher Wright (1568–1605), (1570–1605), members of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot
- John Wright (Ipswich MP) (1615–1683)
- John Wright (politician), New Zealand MP, 1996–2002
- John C. Wright (comptroller) (1801–1862), NY State Comptroller, 1852–1853
- John C. Wright (politician) (1783–1861), U.S. Representative from Ohio
- John F. Wright (born 1945), Nebraska Supreme Court justice
- John Vines Wright (1828–1908), member of the U.S. Congress, the Confederate Congress, and a state supreme court justice
- John Allan Cecil Cecil-Wright (1886–1982), Member of Parliament for Birmingham Erdington, 1936–1945
- John A. Wright (born 1954), Oklahoma State Representative and Lieutenant Governor Candidate
- John Wright (New South Wales politician), New South Wales colonial MP
- John Wright (Tasmanian politician) (1892–1947), Tasmanian state MP
- John T. Wright, African American politician and taxi company proprietor
- John Arthur Wright (1841–1920), Australian company manager, politician and railways commissioner
- John James Wright (1821–1904), Australian flour miller, councillor and politician
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—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
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