Dr. John Patrick Savage, OC, ONS, MD, LL.D, (May 28, 1932—May 13, 2003) was premier of Nova Scotia, Canada between 1993 and 1997.

John Savage (born John Youngs on August 25, 1949 in Old Bethpage, New York) is an American film actor, producer, production manager, and composer.

John Savage surveyed as part of a boundary dispute between Lord Fairfax and the English Privy Council concerning the Northern Neck of the Potomac River to determine proprietorship. His party made a complete survey of the territory as ordered. This considerable undertaking required tracing the Potomac River to its headwaters, tracing the north and south branches of the Rappahannock to their headwaters, measuring the boundaries of the Northern Neck counties, and running the western boundary connecting the Rappahannock and Potomac headwater sites-the Fairfax Line. The Fairfax Stone marks the northern end of the Fairfax Line. The rivers and waterways were surveyed in 1736 and 1737

John Savage (1779 - 1863) was a United States Representative in Congress from the state of New York from 1815 until 1819.

Savage was born in Salem, Washington County, New York, on February 22, 1779; attended the common schools; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1799; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1800 and commenced practice in Salem, N.Y. Savage served as district attorney for the fourth New York district 1806-1811 and 1812 and 1813. He was a member of the State assembly in 1814, before being elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses (serving March 4, 1815-March 3, 1819).

Later, Savage was district attorney of Washington County 1818-1820; New York State Comptroller 1821-1823; chief justice of the New York Supreme Court 1823-1836; appointed Treasurer of the United States in 1828 but did not accept; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1844. Savage died in Utica, New York, on October 19, 1863 and was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery.

John Savage was an American actor who, for about half-a-decade from the late 1970s through the early '80s, remained precariously balanced on the cusp of stardom before his career as a character lead eventually derailed after the failure of Maria's Lovers (1984) in 1984. Perhaps it was for the best, personally, as Savage devoted the rest of the decade to fighting apartheid in South Africa, a far worthier cause than the pursuit of movie stardom. Born John Youngs on August 25, 1949 in Old Bethpage, New York, Savage first made a major splash on screen nearly 10 years after his 1969 B-movie, big-screen debut in Master Beater, The (1969) with Deer Hunter, The (1978) (1978), winner of the Best Picture Oscars in 1979. While "The Deer Hunter" has not aged well due to its extreme jingoism and racism, its impact on Hollywood and America in the late 1970s was enormous. Its graphic violence, now fairly commonplace even on television, shocked audiences, and it overwhelmed Jane Fonda's more pacifist Vietnam movie 'Coming Home (1978)_ that came out the same year. (Both films have been overshadowed,a nd Fonda's film largely forgotten, by the subsequent definitive Vietnam War films Apocalypse Now (1979), Platoon (1986), and Full Metal Jacket (1987).) The following year, Savage had leads in two more big pictures: Milos Forman's musical Hair (1979) and the film adaptation of Joseph Wambaugh's _Onion Field, The (1979). Unfortunately for Savage, "Hair" was a flop and his zombie-like performance as the traumatized police officer in "Onion Field" was overshadowed by James Woods (I) much-more flamboyant portrayal of the cop-killer in the film. Savage's appearance as the suicide-survivor in Richard Donner's Inside Moves (1980) was at least the third major role that typed him as a morose, suicidal melancholic. Again, he was overshadowed by the performance of a co-star: Diana Scarwid won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for the film. Several lax years followed, and then came yet another performance as a morose, emotional catatonic in "Maria's Lovers", where he was overshadowed by the beauty of co-star Nastassja Kinski and the presence of cinema legend Robert Mitchum. His career as a character lead was over, and by 1986, he was appearing in a supporting role to James Woods' Oscar-nominated lead in Oliver Stone (I)'s Salvador. By the end of the decade, when he appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's misbegotten Godfather: Part III, The (1990) sequel in place of Robert Duvall (I) (who refused to appear in the picture in a salary dispute), his character of Tom Hagen's son was barely a speaking part! Savage continues to act, albeit mostly in television roles, but his early career, and inability to cash in on his early promise, should be a lesson to thespians to avoid playing one type too early in their career.