John Thornton
John Thornton may refer to:
Sports
- John Thornton , Australian cricketer
- John Thornton , English cricketer
- John Thornton, American baseball pitcher
- John Thornton, American football player
- John Thornton, American football player
- John Thornton , British Olympic hurdler
Government and politics
- John Thornton, English MP for Kingston upon Hull
- John Thornton , Canadian merchant and politician in Quebec
- John Thornton , American Louisiana politician and senator
Fictional characters
- John Thornton, a leading character in Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild
- John Thornton, a leading character in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel ''North and South''
Other
- John Thornton, English 16th-century bishop and university administrator
- John Thornton, English York Minster stained glass designer between 1405 and 1408
- John Thornton , English cartographer and hydrographer
- John Thornton , merchant and Christian philanthropist
- John Thornton , American historian
- John Thornton
- John L. Thornton, former president and co-COO of Goldman Sachs
- John S. Thornton, bishop
- John P. Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic Technology Inc.
- John Wingate Thornton, American lawyer, historian, antiquarian, book collector and author