John Dent may refer to:
A number of early settlers and planters related to Charles County, Maryland: Captain John Dent (c. 1645–1712), English-born American settler, planter and magistrate, nephew of Thomas Dent Sr. General John Dent (1733–1809), politician, magistrate, and general in the Revolutionary War, father of George Dent Captain John H. Dent (1782–1823), officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War and the First Barbary War, grandson of General John Dent John Dent (1751–1811), English founder of Dents leather goods John Dent (died 1826) (c. 1760–1826), British Member of Parliament for Lancaster and Poole John Dent (merchant) (1821–1892), Hong Kong and Shanghai businessman John Dent (Liberal MP) (1826–1894), British Whig/Liberal MP for Knaresborough and Scarborough John Dent (biathlete) (born 1938), British Olympic biathlete John Charles Dent (1841–1888), Canadian historian Johnny Dent (1903–?), English former footballer John H. Dent (politician) (1908–1988), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania John Dent, character in Across the Continent
See also Dent (surname)