John Davis is the name of several persons:

• John Davis (1550?-1605), an English navigator and explorer.
• Captain John Davis , English buccaneer.
• Sir John Francis Davis , second Governor of Hong Kong.
• John Davis (1787-1854), Governor of the U.S. state the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• John W. Davis, the Democratic candidate in the 1924 U.S. presidential election who lost to Calvin Coolidge.
• Captain John Davis , a sealer, the first American claimed to have set foot on Antarctica (February 7th, 1821). [1][2][3].
• John Davis, an American film producer and founder of Davis Entertainment.