John Ball
Jack, Johnny, or John Ball may refer to:
Arts and media
Art
- Jack Ball, Australian artist, winner of the 2025 Ramsay Art Prize
Music and performance
- John Ball (musician), American Christian musician
- Johnny Ball, English children's television presenter
Writers
- John Ball (novelist), American novelist
- John Ball (Puritan), English author and scholar
Clergy
- John Ball (priest), English radical priest and leader of 1381 Peasants' Revolt
- John Ball (minister), English Presbyterian minister
- John Ball (clergyman), African-American minister from Nova Scotia
- John Ball (bishop), British Anglican bishop
Politicians
England
- John Ball (16th-century MP), English Member of Parliament for Norwich
Ireland
- John Ball (Drogheda MP), MP for Drogheda in the Irish House of Commons
- John Ball (naturalist), Irish naturalist and politician, MP for County Carlow 1857–1880
- John Thomas Ball, Irish barrister and politician, MP for Dublin University 1868–1875
United States
- John Ball (assemblyman), American soldier and politician
- John Ball (pioneer), American pioneer and state politician
Sport
Football
- Jack Ball (footballer, born 1900), English footballer for Bury and England
- Jack Ball (footballer, born 1907), English football forward
- Jack Ball (footballer, born 1923), English football goalkeeper
- John Ball (footballer, born 1925), English footballer for Bolton Wanderers
- John Ball (soccer, born 1972), American footballer for Rochester Rhinos
- John Henry Ball, English footballer for Aston Villa
Other sports
- John Ball (golfer), English amateur golfer; winner of The Open Championship
Other people
- John Ball (cognitive scientist), American cognitive scientist
- John Ball (geologist), English geologist
- John Ball (pioneer), American explorer
- Sir John M. Ball, English mathematician