John Nelson

John Nelson may refer to:

• John Nelson (baseball) (born 1979), US baseball player
• John Nelson (British Army officer) (1912–1993), Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin
• John Nelson (conductor) (born 1941), US conductor
• John Nelson (convert), 16th-century English convert to Islam
• John Nelson (lawyer) (1791–1860), Attorney General of the United States in the 19th century
• John Nelson (martyr) (1534–1578), Catholic priest, killed for refusal to acknowledge Queen's supremacy over Church in England
• John Nelson (merchant) (1654–1734), US colonial figure in Boston
• John Nelson (physician), physician, president of the American Medical Association
• John Nelson (police officer), US policeman, regarded as founder of police special forces units
• John Nelson (soccer) (1905–1984), Scottish-born US soccer player
• John Nelson (swimmer) (born 1948), US swimmer
• John Nelson (visual effects artist) (born 1953), US visual effects supervisor
• John Allen Nelson (born 1959), US actor in film and television
• John B. Nelson, US political figure in Arizona
• John E. Nelson (born 1935), US political figure in Nebraska
• John E. Nelson (Maine) (1874–1955), US political figure from Maine
• John Frederick Nelson (born 1947), chairman of Lloyd's of London
• John L. Nelson (1916–2001), US musician
• John M. Nelson (1870–1955), US political figure from Wisconsin
• Byron Nelson (John Byron Nelson, Jr., 1912–2006), US golfer
• Candy Nelson (John W. Nelson, 1849–1910), US baseball player
• Jock Nelson (John Norman Nelson, 1908–1991), Australian politician
• Johnny Nelson (born 1967), British boxer

See also

• Jack Nelson (disambiguation)
• Jon Nelson, mash-up artist
• Jon Nelson (guitarist) (born 1965), from Suicidal Tendencies
• Jonathan Nelson (disambiguation)
• John Nelson House (disambiguation)