• Pope John VII, Pope from 705 to his death in 707
• Patriarch John VII of Constantinople (died prior to 867), Patriarch from 837 to 943
• John VII Palaiologos (1370–1408), Byzantine Emperor for five months in 1390
• Johann V-VII, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1558–1592)
• John VII, Count of Nassau (1561–1623)
• John VII Gilbert, Archbishop of York from 1757 to 1761

See also

• John 7, the seventh chapter of the Gospel of John