John Payne

John Payne may refer to:

• John Payne (martyr) (1532–1582), an English Catholic priest martyr, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
• John Willett Payne (1752–1803) , British admiral
• John Howard Payne (1791–1852), was an American actor, poet, playwright, and author who had most of his theatrical career and success in London. He is today most remembered as the creator of "Home! Sweet Home!", a song he wrote in 1822
• John Payne (bishop) (1815–1874), a Missionary Bishop from the Episcopal Church to Liberia, and the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Liberia.
• John Payne (poet) (1842–1916) was an English poet and translator, now best known for his translations of Boccaccio's Decameron, The Arabian Nights and the Diwan Hafez.
• John Barton Payne (1855–1935) was United States Secretary of the Interior from 1920 through 1921 under Woodrow Wilson.
• John Payne (politician) (1871–1942), New Zealand politician
• John Payne (actor) (1912-1989), American film actor and singer
• John Payne (American football) (born 1936), American football coach
• John Payne (sculptor) (died 2008), an American sculptor from Asheville, North Carolina. Payne created large dinosaur skeletons which are animated by the viewer
• John Payne (voice actor), is an English-born Canadian voice actor who works for Ocean Studios in Vancouver, Canada.
• John Payne (singer), the lead singer and bassist of Asia from 1992 to 2006 and from June 2007 with ASIA Featuring John Payne.
• John D. Payne, a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 106th District and was elected in 2002.
• Johnny Payne, dramatist, novelist, scholar, and has been a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and Florida Atlantic University's Boca Raton campus.

Commonly called Jack

• Jack Payne (1899–1969), British bandleader
• Jack Payne (footballer) (born 1991), British football player (Gillingham F.C.)

See also

• John Paine (disambiguation)