John Purcell

• John Purcell (author), Australian novelist
• John Purcell (VC), Irish soldier in the British Army who received the Victoria Cross
• John Purcell (musician), American jazz saxophonist
• John Purcell (MP), Welsh politician
• John Purcell (physician), English physician
• John Baptist Purcell, Irish-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church