John Tarleton

• John Tarleton (slave trader), English ship-owner and slave-trader, Mayor of Liverpool in 1764, father of John Tarleton
• John Tarleton (MP), English ship-owner, slave-trader and politician, son of John Tarleton
• John Tarleton (Royal Navy officer), admiral and Second Sea Lord
• John Tarleton (American settler), American rancher best known for endowing what became Tarleton State University
• John Tarleton (cricketer), New Zealand cricketer