(The list is sorted by year of birth)

• John Dickinson (1732–1808), Founding Father of the United States active in Delaware and Pennsylvania.
• John Dean Dickinson (1767–1841), lawyer and U.S. Representative from New York
• John Dickinson (inventor) (1782–1869), founder of the paper mills at Apsley and Nash Mills in Hertfordshire, England
• John Dickinson (judge) (1806–1882), judge and politician in colonial New South Wales
• John Dickinson (writer) (1815–1876), English writer on India
• John Dickinson (magistrate) (1848/9–1933), chief magistrate of the Metropolitan Police Courts until 1920
• John Dickinson (bishop) (1901–1993), Assistant English Bishop of Melanesia
• John Dickinson (physician) (1927–2015), British physician and clinical researcher
• John Dickinson (rugby league) (1934–2021), rugby league footballer of the 1950s for England, and St Helens RLFC
• John Dickinson (author) (born 1962), English author of young adult novels

• John Dickenson (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Dickinson (disambiguation)
• John Dickinson High School, in Milltown, Delaware