John Barnes (born 1957) is a prolific American science fiction author, whose stories often explore questions of individual moral responsibility within a larger social context. Social criticism is woven throughout his plots. The four novels in his Million Open Doors series pose serious questions about the effects of globalization on isolated societies.
John Charles Bryan Barnes (born November 7, 1963 in Kingston, Jamaica) was a hugely successful and well known Jamaican-born English football player of the 1980s and 1990s, and was once the manager of Celtic.
John Gilbert Presslie Barnes is a British computer scientist best known for his role in developing and publicising the Ada programming language.
John Barnes (born June 1, 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.
John Barnes, 1868-1938, was an Australian politician for the Labor Party.
John Barnes is a sports journalist for BBC Scotland, regularly reporting for TV's Sportscene and BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
John Barnes (c 1746 – 30 April 1810) was an army officer and politician in the British army who came to Canada as part of the reinforcements against the Americans in 1776.
John Hamilton Barnes (born 14 November 1916 in Armagh, Ireland; died 22 April 1943 in Nottinghamshire, England) was an Irish cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler who played twice for Ireland against New Zealand in September 1937. The first of those two matches had first-class status.