John Symonds was an English writer.
John Symonds may also refer to:
- John Symonds (academic) (1730–1807), professor of modern history at the University of Cambridge
- John Symonds (surveyor), British Army officer and surveyor
- John Addington Symonds (physician) (1807–1871), British author
- John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), British poet and literary critic, son of the physician
- John Alexander Symonds (born 1935), British KGB agent
- John Jermyn Symonds, New Zealand politician in the 19th century