Arts

• John Foley (author) (1917–1974), British soldier and author

• John Foley (Jesuit) (born 1939), Jesuit priest and songwriter of Catholic liturgical music

• John Henry Foley (1818–1874), Irish sculptor

• John Miles Foley (1947–2012), folklorist

Military

• Sir John Foley (British Army officer, born 1939) (born 1939), former Chief of Defence Intelligence and Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey

• John D. Foley (1918–1999), American bomber gunner in World War II

• John H. Foley (1839–1874), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Religion

• John Foley (Monsignor) (1854–1937), priest, educator and President of Carlow College

• John Patrick Foley (1935–2011), Roman Catholic cardinal

• John Samuel Foley (1833–1918), third Catholic bishop of Detroit, for whom Bishop Foley Catholic High School in Madison Heights, Michigan is named

Sports

• John Foley (American football), former American college football linebacker

• John Foley (baseball) (1857–?), baseball player

• John Foley (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1900s, and 1910s for Wales, and Ebbw Vale

• John Foley (rugby union) (born 1997), Irish rugby union player

Other

• John P. Foley (judge) (died 1984), Presiding Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals

• John R. Foley (1917–2001), U.S. Congressman from Maryland, 1959–1961

• John Foley (Bushranger)

See also

• Jack Foley (disambiguation)