John Hutchinson is the name of a number of notable people:

• John Hutchinson (writer), (1674-1737) an English writer
• John Hutchinson (Colonel), (1615-74) a leader in the 17th century Puritan revolt in Britain
• John Irwin Hutchinson (1867-1935) American mathematician
• John Hutchinson (botanist), an English botanist
• John Hutchinson (inventor), the controversial inventor
• John Hutchinson (South Dakota) from South Dakota, and the namesake of Hutchinson County, South Dakota
• John Hutchinson (footballer), the Australian footballer
• John W. Hutchinson, American Professor of Engineering (Harvard University)
• John Hutchinson (UCLA), an author and professor of industrial relations at the University of California, Los Angeles.