John Edwards (born 1953) is an American politician who was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

John Edwards may also refer to:

Entertainment

• John Edwards (1699–1776), Welsh poet
• John Edwards (1747–1792), Welsh poet
• John Edwards (1751–1832), Irish poet
• John Edwards (painter) (1742–1815), English painter, designer, illustrator and botanist
• John Kelt Edwards (1875–1934), Welsh artist and cartoonist
• John Paul Edwards (1884–1968), American photographer
• John Uzzell Edwards (1934–2014), Welsh painter
• John Edwards (singer) (born 1944), American R&B singer for the Spinners
• John Edwards (musician) (born 1953), English bass guitarist for Status Quo
• John Edwards (producer) (born 1953), Australian television drama producer
• Johnny Edwards (musician), singer for the band Foreigner

Politics

Religion

• John Edwards (divine) (1637–1716), English Calvinistic divine
• John Edwards (minister) (1714–1785), English dissenting minister at Leeds, Yorkshire
• John Edwards (Unitarian minister) (1768–1808), English nonconformist and political radical
• John Edwards (missionary) (1828–1903), American protestant minister to the Choctaw Nation, best known for work at Wheelock Mission in present-day Oklahoma
• John Edwards (hymnist) (1805–1885), Welsh Anglican priest and hymn composer
• John Edwards (archdeacon of St Asaph) (1889–1976), Welsh Anglican priest

Sports

• John Hawley Edwards (1850–1893), footballer in England and Wales; a founder of Welsh Football Association
• Jack Edwards (cricketer, born 1860) (John Dunlop Edwards, 1860–1911), Australian cricketer
• John Edwards (footballer, born 1875) (1875–?), English soccer player
• John Edwards (Canadian football) (1912–2005), Canadian football player
• John Edwards (cricketer, born 1928) (1928–2002), Australian cricketer
• John Edwards (Barbadian cricketer) (1909–1976), Barbadian cricketer
• John Edwards (Australian footballer) (born 1942), Australian rules footballer
• John Edwards (canoeist) (born 1954), Canadian sprint canoer
• John Edwards (basketball) (born 1981), American basketball player
• John Edwards (racing driver) (born 1991), American racing driver

Other

• John Edwards (academic) (1600–1660?), professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University 1638–1648
• John Edwards (Siôn Treredyn) (1605/6–1656), Welsh translator who used the pen name "Siôn Treredyn"
• John Edwards (American Civil War sailor) (1831–1902), member of U.S. Navy who was awarded Medal of Honor during the Civil War
• John Newman Edwards (1839–1889), American frontier writer and newspaperman
• John D. Edwards (1885–1918), American naval officer awarded the Navy Cross
• John Bryn Edwards (1889–1922), Welsh ironmaster and philanthropist
• John Ellis Edwards (1922–1979), Tuskegee airman
• John Menlove Edwards (1910–1958), English child psychologist and poet
• John H. Edwards (1928–2007), British medical geneticist
• John Robert Edwards (born 1947), professor of psychology and language in Nova Scotia
• John A. Edwards (born 1960), Irish judge
• John M. Edwards, professor of surgery
• John Edwards (British Army officer) (1896–?)
• John Edwards (antiquarian) (1846–1937), Scottish lawyer, palaeographer and collector, see Edwards Professor of Medieval History

See also

• Jack Edwards (disambiguation)
• Jackie Edwards (disambiguation)
• John Edwards Holbrook (1796–1871), American zoologist, naturalist and physician
• John Edward (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Edwards (disambiguation)
• John & Edward, X Factor finalists
• Edwards (surname)