John Reed

Arts, letters, and entertainment

• John Reed , English actor and singer with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
• John Reed , American animator and painter
• John Reed , Australian critic and art patron
• John Reed , American journalist and Communist activist
• John Reed , American novelist and author
• John O. Reed, British anthologist and translator of African literature
• John Shelton Reed, American sociologist and essayist

  Business and finance

• John Reed, American miner, founder of the Reed Gold Mine in North Carolina
• John S. Reed, American financier
• John Shedd Reed, American chairman of Santa Fe Industries, president of Shedd Aquarium
• John T. Reed, American real estate investor and author

  Politics

• Sir John Blake-Reed, British judge
• Jack Reed , born John Francis Reed, United States Senator from Rhode Island
• John Reed, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk
• John Reed , New Zealand judge
• John Reed Jr., American politician from Massachusetts, son of John Reed Sr., entered Congress in 1813
• John Reed Sr., American politician from Massachusetts, left Congress in 1801
• John A. Reed Jr., American lawyer and judge
• John H. Reed, American politician, 66th governor of Maine

  Sports

• Jack Reed , born John Burwell Reed, American outfielder for the New York Yankees, 1961–1963
• John M. Reed, American college sports coach
• John Reed , English footballer who played primarily for Sheffield United
• Johnny Reed, American baseball player

  Others

• John Reed , American early California settler and noted landowner in Marin County
• John Reed , American fur trader
• John Reed , English Archdeacon of Taunton
• John C. Reed, American medical researcher
• John Oren Reed, American physicist and university dean
• John W. Reed, American law professor and dean