title: John Clayton
text: # John Clayton
  
  John Clayton may refer to:
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  ### Writing
  
  * John Clayton (architect) (died 1861), English architect and writer
  * John Clayton (sportswriter) (1954–2022), American sportswriter and reporter
  * John Bell Clayton (c. 1907–1955), American writer
  * John J. Clayton, American fiction writer, teacher, and editor
  
  ### Other media
  
  * John Clayton Adams (1840–1906), English landscape artist
  * John Clayton (Australian actor) (1940–2003), Australian actor
  * John Clayton (bassist) (born 1952), American jazz bassist
  * John Clayton (British actor) (1845–1888), British actor
  * John Clayton (painter) (1728–1800), English artist
  * John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, birthname of the fictional character Tarzan
  
  ## Politics
  
  * John Clayton (Roundhead) (1620–?), English politician
  * John Clayton (d. 1737) (c. 1666–1737), British lawyer who became burgess and Attorney General of colonial Virginia 1714–1737
  * John Clayton (town clerk) (1792–1890), antiquarian and town clerk of Newcastle upon Tyne, England
  * John M. Clayton (1796–1856), U.S. Senator from Delaware and U.S. Secretary of State
     * John M. Clayton (Baker), a 1934 marble sculpture of the senator
  * John M. Clayton (Arkansas politician) (1840–1889), U.S. Representative from Arkansas, assassinated in 1889
  * John Clayton Allen (1860–1939), American politician
  
  ## Sports
  
  * John Clayton (cricketer) (1857–1938), English cricketer
  * John Clayton (footballer, born 1961), Scottish footballer
  * John Clayton (footballer, born 1907), English footballer
  * John Clayton (rugby union) (1848–1924), England rugby union player
  
  ## Other fields
  
  * John Clayton (botanist) (1694–1773), also Anglican minister and Gloucester County clerk, son of John Clayton (d. 1737)
  * John Clayton (divine) (1709–1773), English cleric, Methodist and Jacobite
  * John Clayton (minister) (1754–1843), English Independent
  