Honest John

Honest John may refer to:

Politicians

United Kingdom

• John Battersby, councillor in Glasgow and trade union leader
• John Bowen (alderman), High Sheriff of Worcestershire
• John Fielden, British politician
• Mad Jack Fuller, British politician who preferred to be known as "Honest John" Fuller
• John Lilburne (1614 – 1657), English Leveller during the English Civil Wars

United States

• John Davis (Massachusetts governor)
• John H. Farley, Mayor of Cleveland
• John Hart (New Jersey politician)
• John Hunn (governor), Governor of Delaware
• John Kelly (New York politician), Tammany Hall politician
• John Letcher, Governor of Virginia
• John Moore (Illinois), Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois
• John J. Patterson (1830–1912) United States senator from South Carolina
• John Holbrook Powers, Nebraska politician
• John F. Shafroth, Governor of Colorado
• John Sparks (Nevada politician)
• John Walsh (Dakota politician)
• John Whiteaker, Governor of Oregon
• John J. Williams (senator)

Elsewhere

• John Martin (Young Irelander), Irish politician
• John Tonkin, Australian politician
• John White (New Zealand politician)

Athletes

• John Anderson (outfielder), baseball player
• John Barham Day, jockey
• John Clapp (baseball), baseball player
• John Eubank, baseball player
• John Gaffney, baseball umpire
• John Kelly, baseball player nicknamed "Kick Kelly" and "Honest John"
• John McCloskey (baseball manager)
• John McKenna, rugby player
• John Morrill, baseball player
• John A. Warren, football player
• John Katan, wrestler

Fictional characters

• "Honest John" Worthington Foulfellow, a character in Disney's 1940 film Pinocchio
• a character in the 1986 An American Tail
• a character in Marvel Comics' S-Men
• a character in Belle of the Yukon
• the protagonist of an 1875 novel by John William De Forest

Other uses

• Honest John Plain, guitarist with The Boys
• the MGR-1 Honest John, a nuclear-capable missile
• John Philip Wood, Scots historian
• John Brown Russwurm, abolitionist
• John Crocker, officer in the British Army
• John Roberts, 18th-century Irish architect
• John Stephenson (coachbuilder)
• a 1959 single produced by Felton Jarvis
• Honest Jon's, a record store
• "Honest John", a type of open bar where patrons serve themselves and leave payment in a jar or drawer, on the honor system.