John MacPherson or Macpherson may refer to:
John Macpherson (minister) (1710–1765), Scottish minister and antiquarian Sir John Macpherson, 1st Baronet (1745–1821), Scottish administrator in India John Macpherson (physician) (1817–1890), Scottish physician John Alexander MacPherson (1833–1894), Australian politician John Andrew MacPherson (1856–1944), New Zealand politician, Liberal Party MP John Thomas Macpherson (1872–1921), British Member of Parliament for Preston, 1906–1910 Sir John Stuart Macpherson (1898–1971), governor of Nigeria, 1948–1955 John Macpherson (privateer), Scottish-born privateer See also John McPherson (disambiguation)