• John Mitchell, American jazz banjoist who worked with Johnny Dunn • John Mitchell, Canadian ice dancer in the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships • John Mitchell (minister) (1794–1870), American minister and author • John Mitchell (musician) (born 1973), lead singer and guitarist for UK band It Bites, and music producer • John Ames Mitchell (1844–1918), American illustrator • John Cameron Mitchell (born 1963), American filmmaker • John Campbell Mitchell (1861–1922), Scottish landscape artist • John Grant Mitchell (actor) (1874–1957), American character actor in the 1930s and 1940s • John Hanson Mitchell (born 1940), American author • John Mitch Mitchell (1946–2008), English musician • John R. Mitchell (poet) (1940–2006), poet and a professor of English • John W. Mitchell (1917–2005), British sound engineer • John Wendell Mitchell (1880–1951), Canadian author