John Macdonald
John Macdonald or MacDonald may refer to:
Government
Australia
- John MacDonald (Australian politician), Australian senator for Queensland
Britain
- John MacDonald II or John of Islay, Earl of Ross, last Lord of the Isles, Scotland
- John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh, Scottish politician and later a judge
- John Macdonald (British politician, born 1854), British Liberal politician
Canada
- John Small MacDonald, Prince Edward Island merchant and politician
- John Sandfield Macdonald, first Premier of Ontario
- John A. Macdonald, first Canadian prime minister
- John Macdonald (Canadian politician), member of parliament and later senator
- John MacDonald of Glenaladale, Scottish born soldier and Prince Edward Island landowner
- John Alexander MacDonald (Prince Edward Island politician), speaker of the Prince Edward Island assembly
- John Alexander Macdonald (Prince Edward Island politician), member of parliament for King's, Prince Edward Island
- John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong, politician, conveyancer and real estate agent in Ontario
- John Alexander Macdonald (Nova Scotia politician), politician in Nova Scotia
- John Joseph MacDonald, senator for Prince Edward Island
- John Michael Macdonald, senator for Nova Scotia
- John Augustine Macdonald, member of parliament for King's, Prince Edward Island
- John W. MacDonald, Canadian politician in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
- John A. MacDonald (Nova Scotia politician), politician in Nova Scotia
United States
- John L. MacDonald, American representative from Minnesota
- John R. MacDonald, Michigan politician
Literature
- John D. MacDonald, American mystery author
- John McDonald, pseudonym of Kenneth Miller, Canadian-American mystery author, better known as Ross Macdonald
Military
- John MacDonald of Garth, Scottish-Canadian participant in the Pemmican war
- John Macdonald (British Army officer, died 1850), Adjutant-General to the Forces
- John Macdonald (British Army officer, born 1907)
- John Macdonald (Australian Army officer), University of [New South Wales Regiment]
- John Denis Macdonald , English naval surgeon and naturalist
Music
- John MacDonald (Canadian musician), Canadian–French horn player
- John-Angus MacDonald, Canadian musician and guitarist
- John Scantlebury Macdonald, real name of Harry Macdonough, Canadian singer and music recording pioneer
- John MacDonald of Inverness, Scottish bagpiper
Religion
- John MacDonald (bishop of Aberdeen), Scottish Roman Catholic bishop
- John MacDonald (Gaelic Moderator), Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland, known as the "Apostle of the North"
- John MacDonald (vicar apostolic), Scottish Roman Catholic bishop
- John Hugh MacDonald, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Edmonton
- John Roderick MacDonald, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Peterborough, Ontario
Sports
- John Macdonald (sportsman), represented Scotland at both cricket and football
- John MacDonald (American football), American football head coach for Boston University
- John MacDonald (canoeist), New Zealand Olympic canoer
- John MacDonald (footballer, born 1883), Scottish footballer for Blackburn Rovers, Leeds City, Grimsby Town
- John Macdonald (footballer, born 1886), Scottish footballer for Raith Rovers, Rangers, Liverpool, Newcastle United
- John MacDonald (footballer, born 1961), Scottish footballer for Rangers, Barnsley
- John MacDonald (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player who played for Destil Trappers in the Netherlands
- John MacDonald (racing driver), race car driver and motorcycle racer of Hong Kong
- Jack Macdonald (sportsman), New Zealand Olympic rower
- John Macdonald (Canadian football), Canadian football defensive linemen
- John MacDonald (rugby union, born 1960), Irish rugby union international player
- John MacDonald (rugby union, born 1890), Scottish rugby union player
- John MacDonald (rugby union, born 1938), Scottish rugby union player
Other uses
- John Cathanach MacDonald, 4th of Dunnyveg
- John Macdonald (psychiatrist), New Zealand forensic psychiatrist who coined the MacDonald triad of sociopathy
- John S. MacDonald, co-founder of MacDonald Dettwiler
- John Smyth Macdonald, British physiologist
- John Graham MacDonald, explorer and pioneer in Queensland, Australia
- John B. Macdonald, president of the University of British Columbia