- Alec Johnson (born 1944), English cricketer
- Alexz Johnson (born 1986), Canadian singer, actor and songwriter
- Amy Johnson (1903-1941), pioneering English aviator
- Amy Jo Johnson (born 1970), American actor, singer and songwriter
- Andre Johnson (born 1981), American football player
- Andre Johnson, known as Jah Mason (born 1970), Jamaican reggae artist
- A.R. Johnson (Louisiana politician) (1856-1933)
- Arte Johnson (born 1929), American comic actor
- Austin Johnson (born 1989), American football player
- B. S. Johnson (1933-1973), English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic, producer of television programmes and filmmaker
- Benny Johnson (1948-1988), American football player
- Benton Johnson (born 1928), American sociologist
- Berry Johnson (1906-1985), New Zealand rower
- Bessilyn Johnson (1871-1943), wife of Albert Mussey Johnson
- Bob Johnson (date of birth missing), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives since 2015
- Bobby Johnson (born 1951), American football coach
- Boris Johnson (born 1964), British journalist and politician
- Bradley Tyler Johnson (1829-1903), American Civil War general
- Brandon Johnson (born 1983), American football player
- Brandon Johnson (athlete) (born 1985), American middle-distance runner
- Brian Johnson (born 1947), British-born lead singer of the Australian rock band AC/DC
- The Brothers Johnson, musicians George and Louis
- Bunk Johnson (1879-1949), American jazz musician
- Bushrod Johnson (1817-1880), U.S. Confederate Army general
- C. David Johnson (born 1955), Canadian actor
- Carlton Johnson (born 1969), American football player
- Caryn Johnson, real name of Whoopi Goldberg (born 1955), American comedienne, actor, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host
- Chalmers Johnson (1931-2010), American author of Blowback and other books
- Christian Johnson (born 1986), American football player
- Chubby Johnson (1903-1974), American actor
- Clare Johnson, American writer and artist
- Clark Johnson (politician) (born 1952), American politician (Minnesota)
- Clark Johnson (born 1954), American actor and director
- Claude Joseph Johnson (Dr C. J. Johnson, born 1913), American gospel singer
- Curley "Boo" Johnson (born 1965), American basketball player
- D. E. Johnson (aka Dan E. Johnson), American author
- Dallas Johnson (born 1982), Australian rugby league footballer
- Darcy Johnson (born 1983), American football player
- Davey Johnson (born 1943), American baseball player and manager
- Dean Johnson (born 1947), American politician
- Dink Johnson (1892-1954), American jazz musician
- Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) (born 1972), American actor and professional wrestler
- Eben Samuel Johnson (1886-1939), English-American Methodist bishop
- Ebenezer Johnson (1786-1849), first mayor of Buffalo, New York
- Eliana Johnson (born 1984), American magazine editor
- Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810-1876), wife of U.S. President Andrew Johnson
- Ellen Johnson (born 1955), American political activist
- Erica Johnson, Canadian broadcaster and journalist
- Erika Johnson, American actress
- F. Ross Johnson (born 1931), former CEO of RJR Nabisco
- Gertrude Johnson (1894-1973), Australian soprano
- Greta Johnson, politician
- Guion Griffis Johnson (1900-1989), American historian
- Guy Benton Johnson (1901-1991), American social anthropologist
- Hammond Johnson (1883-1919), American college football and baseball coach
- Helen Kendrick Johnson (1844-1917), American writer, poet and activist against the women's suffrage movement
- Holly Johnson (born 1960), English artist, musician and writer
- Hosmer Allen Johnson (1822-1891), American physician
- Irving Johnson (1905-1991), author and adventurer
- Johnson (composer) (1953-2011), Indian film score composer and director
- Johnson (rapper) (born 1979), Danish rapper Marc Johnson
- J. Neely Johnson (1825–1872), California governor
- Jake Johnson (born 1978), American actor
- Jay W. Johnson (1943–2009), American politician
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- Jimmie Johnson (born 1975), American NASCAR driver
- Jing Johnson (1894-1950), American baseball player
- Joanna Johnson (born 1961), American actress
- Jotham Johnson (1905-1967), American archaeologist
- Junior Johnson (born 1931), American NASCAR driver and team owner
- Kermit Johnson (born 1952), American football player
- Kerry G. Johnson (born 1966), African-American cartoonist, graphic designer, caricaturist and children's book illustrator
- Keyshawn Johnson (born 1972), American football player and ESPN broadcaster
- Kim Johnson, American vocalist
- Kristina M. Johnson, American businesswoman, academic, engineer, and former government official
- Lacey Robert Johnson (1854-1915), Canadian Pacific Railway pioneer
- Lady Bird Johnson (1912–2007), wife of US President Lyndon B. Johnson and businesswoman
- Lance Johnson (born 1963), American baseball player
- Lanny Johnson (Louisiana politician) (born 1940)
- Laura Johnson (born 1957), American actress
- Leavander Johnson (1969–2005), American boxer
- Lee A. Johnson (born 1947), American lawyer
- Len Johnson (boxer) (1902-1969), English boxer
- Linton Kwesi Johnson, (born 1952), Jamaican United Kingdom-based dub poet
- Liver-Eating Johnson (c. 1824–1900), mountain man of the American Old West
- Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (born 1944), the eldest daughter of Lyndon B. Johnson
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973), 36th President of the United States of America
- Magic Johnson (born 1959), American basketball player and businessman
- Marcia K. Johnson, American psychologist
- Marilyn Johnson, American bridge player
- Marques Johnson (born 1956), American retired professional basketball player and basketball analyst
- Mickey Johnson (born 1952), American basketball player
- Molly Johnson, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Oakley C. Johnson (1890-c. 1976), American communist political activist and historian
- Oli Johnson (born 1987), English footballer
- Oswald H. Johnson, American politician
- Penny Johnson Jerald (born 1961), American actor
- Philip Johnson (1906-2005), American architect
- Phillip E. Johnson (born 1940), American, considered a father of the Intelligent Design movement
- Pierre-Marc Johnson (born 1946), 24th Premier of Quebec (in 1985)
- Rachel Johnson (born 1965), British editor and journalist
- Rafer Johnson (born 1935), American decathlete and actor
- Reynold B. Johnson (1906-98), American inventor and computer pioneer ("father" of the disk drive)
- Robb Johnson (born 1955), British musician and songwriter
- Rocky Johnson (born 1944; birth name Wayde Bowles), Canadian professional wrestler and father of Dwayne Johnson
- Rudi Johnson (born 1979), American football player
- Russell Johnson (1924-2014), American TV and film actor
- Sarah Marie Johnson, American murderer
- Shaun Johnson (born 1990), New Zealand rugby league international
- Shawn Johnson (born 1992), American gymnast
- Taborah Johnson (born 1953), actor and jazz singer
- Theresa Johnson (born 1966), American writer
- T. J. Johnson (American football) (born 1990), American football player
- Travis Johnson (born 1982), American football player
- Tyren Johnson (born 1988), American basketball player
- Van Johnson (1916-2008), American actor
- Van Johnson (racing driver) (1927–1959), American racing driver
- Victor S. Johnson, Jr. (1916-2008), American businessman
- Victor S. Johnson, Sr. (1882-1943), American businessman
- Virginia E. Johnson (1925-2013), American sexologist
- Wallace E. Johnson (1901-1988), co-founder of Holiday Inn
- Wilko Johnson (born 1947), English singer, guitarist, songwriter and actor
- Willard Johnson (1820–1900), New York politician
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