People

• John Archer (judge) (1598-1682)
• John Archer (physician)
• John Archer (British politician) (1863-1932), British politician, first person of African descent elected to public office
• John Archer (Maryland) (1741-1810), former U.S. Congressman from Maryland
• John Archer (actor) (1915-1999), American movie and television actor
• John Hall Archer (1914-2004), Canadian president of the University of Regina
• John Archer, head of microbial genomics at Cambridge University
• John Archer (athlete) (1921-1997),
• John Archer (basketball coach) (died 1998),
• John Archer (magician)
• John Archer (footballer) (born 1941), English soccer player
• John Lee Archer (1791-1852), architect and engineer
• John Archer (New Zealand) (1865-1949), New Zealand politician
• John Stuart Archer (1943-2007), Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, 1997-2006
• John Archer (British Army officer) (1924-1999), British Army general
• John Wykeham Archer (1808-1864)

Fictional characters

• Jonathan Archer, captain of the Enterprise (NX-01) in Star Trek: Enterprise
• John Archer, a character in the The Archers, killed in a tractor accident in 1998

[ Source: Wikipedia ]