John Madden may refer to:
- Jack Madden, basketball referee
- John Madden (born 1936), American former football coach and television announcer
- John Madden (ice hockey) (born 1973), ice hockey player
- John Madden (jurist) (1844–1918), former Chief Justice of Victoria
- John Madden (Irish politician) (died 1954), Irish Sinn Féin politician from Mayo
- John Madden (director) (born 1949), English director of theatre, film, television, and radio
- John E. Madden (1856-1929), horse trainer and thoroughbred breeder
- John T. Madden, director of the Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band
- John Thomas Madden (1882–1949), dean of NYU School of Business
- Johnathon Robert Madden (1991–2003), Toronto murder victim