John Gardner is name of several notable men: Arts and Literature · John Gardner (born 1917), British composer · John Gardner (1933–1982) American novelist and educator, author of Grendel · John Gardner (1926–2007), British author of spy and mystery novels, former official James Bond author Law, Education and Government · John Gardner , (1747–1808), U.S. farmer, Rhode Island delegate to Continental Congress · John Gardner (born 1965), Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford and Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor, Yale Law School, Yale University · John Dunn Gardner (1811-1903), British Member of Parliament, 1841 to 1847 · John Fentress Gardner (1912-1998), American author and educator · John J. Gardner (1845 ? 1921), American politician representing New Jersey in the United States House of