John Clayton
John Clayton may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Writing
- John Clayton (architect), English architect and writer
- John Clayton (sportswriter), American sportswriter and reporter
- John Bell Clayton, American writer
- John J. Clayton, American fiction writer, teacher, and editor
Other media
- John Clayton Adams, English landscape artist
- John Clayton (Australian actor), Australian actor
- John Clayton (bassist), American jazz bassist
- John Clayton (British actor), British actor
- John Clayton (painter), English artist
- John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, birthname of the fictional character Tarzan
Politics
- John Clayton (Roundhead), English politician
- John Clayton (d. 1737), British lawyer who became burgess and attorney general of colonial Virginia 1714–1737
- John Clayton (town clerk), antiquarian and town clerk of Newcastle upon Tyne, England
- John M. Clayton, U.S. Senator from Delaware and U.S. Secretary of State
- *John M. Clayton (Baker), a 1934 marble sculpture of the senator
- John M. Clayton (Arkansas politician), U.S. Representative from Arkansas, assassinated in 1889
- John Clayton Allen, American politician
Sports
- John Clayton (cricketer), English cricketer
- John Clayton (footballer, born 1961), Scottish footballer
- John Clayton (footballer, born 1907), English footballer
- John Clayton (rugby union), England rugby union player
Other fields
- John Clayton (botanist), also Anglican minister and Gloucester County clerk, son of John Clayton
- John Clayton (divine), English cleric, Methodist and Jacobite
- John Clayton (minister), English Independent