*John Phillips (author) (1631-1706), author and secretary to John Milton
*Sir John Phillips (Privy Counsellor) (1700-1764), British politician
*Dr. John Phillips (1719-1795), merchant and the founder of Phillips Exeter Academy
*John Phillips (politician), member of U.S. Congress, 1821-'22 from Pennsylvania
*John Phillips (geologist) (1800-1874), geologist at Oxford University
*John Phillips (surveyor) of the Westminster Court of Sewers 1847
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* John George Phillips (wireless officer) (1887-1912), SS ''Titanic''
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* John George Phillips (IBM President) (1886-1937)
*John Calhoun Phillips (1870-1943), Governor of Arizona 1929-1931
*John J. Phillips, member U.S. Congress, 1943-'57 from California
* John Phillips (1924-1996), new name of convicted spy John Vassall after imprisonment
*John Phillips (musician) (1935-2001), American - The Mamas & the Papas
*John Phillips (astronaut) (born 1951)
*John Phillips (basketball coach) - Coach of the University of Tulsa basketball team from 2001-2004
*John Aristotle Phillips (fl. 1977), American undergraduate amateur A-bomb designer
*Pen name of John P. Marquand, Jr., author of ''The Second Happiest Day''
*Johnny Ethan Phillips, a.k.a. Ethan Phillips, actor
* John Philips (1676-1709), British poet
* John Phillips (actor) (1914-1995), British actor
* John Phillips, producer of KABC radio programs ''McIntyre in the Morning'' and ''The Al Rantel Show''
* John Phillips (Pirate)
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