Public officials

• John Salmon Ford
  John Salmon Ford
  John Salmon Ford , better known as "Rip" Ford, was a member of the Republic of Texas Congress and later of the State Senate, and mayor of Brownsville, Texas. He was also a Texas Ranger, a Confederate colonel, and a journalist...
  
   (1815–1897), American political figure in the Republic of Texas
• John M. Ford (Shreveport) (1880–1965), American politician and mayor of Shreveport, 1918–1922
• John Anson Ford
  John Anson Ford
  John Anson Ford was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.Ford was born September 29, 1883, in Waukegan, Illinois. He attended Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, taught history and economics, then moved to Chicago, where he worked on the Chicago Tribune. He was on the editorial...
  
   (1883–1983), American public official who served on Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
  Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
  The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five-member nonpartisan governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district. They were as of December 2, 2008:*District 1: Gloria Molina...
  
  
• John Ford (diplomat) (born 1922), British diplomat; High Commissioner to Canada, 1978–1981
• John Ford (Tennessee politician) (born 1942), Tennessee politician
• Johnny Ford
  Johnny Ford
  Johnny L. Ford is an American politician and former mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama, and an Alabama State Representative. He was raised as a child and attended elementary school in Tuskegee. He is a graduate of Tuskegee Institute High School. Ford received his B.A...
  
   (born 1942), Alabama's first African-American mayor when elected by Tuskegee in 1972
• John Ford (Oklahoma politician) (born 1945), Republican member of Oklahoma State Senate

Entrepreneurs

• John Baptiste Ford
  John Baptiste Ford
  Captain John Baptiste Ford was an American industrialist and founder of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, now known as PPG Industries, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
  
   (1811–1903), American businessman; founded the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
• John T. Ford
  John T. Ford
  John Thomson Ford was an American theater manager in the nineteenth century. He is most notable for operating Ford's Theatre at the time of the Abraham Lincoln assassination.-Early life:...
  
   (1829–1894), American theatre owner and manager
• John Gardner Ford
  John Gardner Ford
  John "Jack" Gardner Ford is the second child and second son of U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.In 1977, with William Randolph Hearst III and Jann Wenner, he was part of the founding staff of the magazine Outside...
  
   (born 1952), American businessman, son of President Gerald R. Ford; known as Jack Ford

Sportspeople

• John Ford (American football coach), college football head coach for Marquette University Golden Eagle
• John Ford (wide receiver) (born 1966), National Football League wide receiver
• John Ford (cricketer)
  John Ford (cricketer)
  John Ford was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Gloucestershire. He was born in Redland....
  
   (born 1934), English cricketer
• John Ford (basketball) (born 1978), American center; Colorado State Rams (1996–2000); professional player in Europe since 2002; with Besançon BCD
  Besançon BCD
  Besançon Basket Comté Doubs was a basketball club based in Besançon, France that played in the Ligue Nationale de Basketball. Their home arena was the Palais des Sports. The club is placed in receivership and disappears on 1 September 2009....
  
   in France from 2005

Literary figures

• John Ford (dramatist)
  John Ford (dramatist)
  John Ford was an English Jacobean and Caroline playwright and poet born in Ilsington in Devon in 1586.-Life and work:...
  
   (1586–c. 1637), English playwright and poet; best known for 1633 tragedy Tis Pity She's a Whore
• John M. Ford
  John M. Ford
  John Milo "Mike" Ford was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.Ford was regarded as an extraordinarily intelligent, erudite and witty man. He was a popular contributor to several online discussions...
  
   (1957–2006), American science fiction writer and poet
• John-James Ford
  John-James Ford
  John-James Ford is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.Born in Kindersley, Saskatchewan, Ford studied at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick...
  
   (born 1972), Canadian poet, short story writer and novelist

Others

• John D. Ford
  John D. Ford
  Rear Admiral John Donaldson Ford was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War.-Biography:...
  
   (1840–1918), American naval officer
• John Ford (minister) (1767-1826), Methodist minister
• John Ford (musician) (born 1948), English singer, songwriter and guitarist
• John Ford (bishop)
  John Ford (bishop)
  John Frank Ford is the current Bishop of Plymouth, a suffragan see in the Diocese of Exeter. He was educated at Southampton College of Technology and Chichester Theological College...
  
   (born 1952), English clergyman; Bishop of Plymouth

See also

• Jack Ford (disambiguation)
• Jon Ford (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Ford (disambiguation)
• Ford (surname)
  Ford (surname)
  Ford is an English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is one of the earliest topographical surnames still in existence. The name derives from the Old English pre 7th Century "ford", a shallow place in a river of water where men and animals could wade across. The term was used as a topographical...