John Powell
# John Powell

John Powell may refer to:

## Politics and law

* John Powell (MP for Cardigan) (died 1590s), MP for Cardigan
* John Powell (1645–1713), English Member of Parliament for Gloucester, 1685–1689
* John Joseph Powell (1816–1891), British Member of Parliament for Gloucester, 1862–1865
* John Enoch Powell (1912–1998), British politician
* John Powell (Canadian politician) (1809–1881), mayor of Toronto
* John A.H. Powell (died 1843), political figure in upper Canada
* John Powell (judge) (c. 1633 – 1696), Welsh judge
* John Blake Powell (1870–1923), Irish judge
* John William Powell (politician) (1928–2010), American politician

## Sports

* John Powell (footballer, born 1892) (1892–1961), English footballer
* John Powell (footballer, born 1936) (1936–2017), English semi-professional footballer
* John Powell (Australian footballer) (born 1937), Australian footballer for Collingwood and Fitzroy
* John Powell (weightlifter) (1931–2008), Australian Olympic weightlifter
* Jackie Powell (1871–1955), South African rugby union player
* John Powell (cricketer) (1904–1959), New Zealand cricketer
* John Powell (discus thrower) (1947–2022), American discus thrower
* Jack Powell (runner) (1910–1982), English athlete

## Others

* Joseph Powell (painter) (1780–1833), English artist and teacher, sometimes called "John Powell"
* John Wesley Powell (1834–1902), American geologist and explorer
* John Powell (musician) (1882–1963), American pianist, composer, and eugenicist who promoted white separatist ideologies
* John Powell (film composer) (born 1963), British composer
* John Powell (physicist) (1923–1996), British physicist, creator of the EMI brain scanner
* John W. Powell (1919–2008), American publisher of China Weekly Review, tried for sedition in 1956
* John A. Powell (born 1947), American academic
* John Powell (Jesuit) (1925–2009), American priest and author
* John Frederick Powell (1915–2008), Royal Air Force officer
* John Hare Powel (1786–1856), American agriculturist
