• John Arthur Phillips (1822-1887), FRS, geologist, metallurgist, mining engineer.
• John Calhoun Phillips (1870–1943), Governor of Arizona, 1929–1931
• John Finis Philips (1834-1919), U.S. Representative from Missouri
• J. G. Phillips (Sir John Grant Phillips), (1911-1986), Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• John Harber Phillips, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• John J. Phillips, member of United States Congress, 1943–1957 from California
• Dr. John Phillips (1719–1795), merchant and the founder of Phillips Exeter Academy
• John L. Phillips (b. 1951), an astronaut
• John Philips (1676–1709), British poet
• John Phillips (actor) (1914–1995), British actor
• John Phillips (author) (1631–1706), author and secretary to John Milton
• John Phillips (Canadian politician) (b. 1831), politician in New Brunswick, Canada
• John Phillips (footballer), English goalkeeper for Chelsea F.C. during the 1970s.
• John Phillips (geologist) (1800–1874), geologist at Oxford University
• Sir John Phillips (Privy Counsellor) (1700–1764), British politician
• John Phillips (mayor), first mayor of Boston, 1822–1823
• John Phillips (musician) (1935–2001), American musician, The Mamas & the Papas
• John Phillips (politician), member of United States Congress, 1821–1822 from Pennsylvania
• John Phillips (surveyor) of the Westminster Court of Sewers 1847
• John Phillips (1924–1996), new name of convicted spy John Vassall after imprisonment
• Johnny Ethan Phillips, a.k.a. Ethan Phillips, American actor
• John Phillips (jurist) (1936), lawyer and retired judge from Australia
• John Bertram Phillips (1906-1982), British Bible translator, writer and clergyman
• John A. Phillips, American new age musician
• John Sanborn Phillips (1861-1949), American who founded McClure's Magazine
• John Henry Lawrence Phillips (1910-1985), British Anglican Bishop of Portsmouth

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