John Childs may refer to: * Jack Childs, FBI spy within the U.S. Communist Party * John Childs (aviator), 18th century aviator * John Childs (cricketer) (born 1951), English cricketer * John Lewis Childs (1856–1921), horticultural businessman and politician who founded Floral Park, New York * John W. Childs, founder of J.W. Childs Associates * John Childs (murderer), British man convicted of six murders in 1979 * John Filby Childs (1783–1853), English printer and political radical * John Childs (historian) (born 1949), professor of military history * John L. Childs (1899–1985), American educator and author * John Childs, victim of the 1995 kidnapping of Western tourists in Kashmir