John Dowling may refer to:
Sports John Dowling (Australian rules footballer) (1909–1967), Australian rules footballer for North Melbourne and Footscray John Dowling (footballer, born 1944), Australian rules footballer for St Kilda John Dowling (Gaelic footballer) (1930–1998), Irish Gaelic footballer John Dowling (rugby league) (born 1953), Australian former rugby league footballer John Dowling (sports administrator) (1931–2002), Irish Gaelic games administrator
Other people John Dowling (musician) (born 1981), British banjo player John Dowling (pastor) (1807–1878), American pastor and author John Dowling (RAF officer) (1923–2000), British helicopter pilot John Francis Dowling (1851–1926), Ontario physician and political figure John E. Dowling (born before 1961), American neuroscientist John Lawrence Dowling, Canadian politician John Dowling, deputy Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus John Dowling, professor at Ecole de Management Léonard De Vinci
See also John Dowling Coates, Australian businessman and Olympic committee member Jonathan Dowling (1955–2020), physicist