Johann Gottfried Dyck (also: Johann Gottfried Dik, Johannes Gottfried Dyck, Johann Gottfried Dyk;  was a German bookseller and author.

Johann Gottfried Ebel was the author of the first real guidebook to Switzerland.

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn was a German Protestant theologian of the Enlightenment and an early orientalist. He was a member of the Göttingen School of History.

Johann Gottfried Gruber was a German critic and literary historian.

Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.

Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten was a German orientalist born in Altenkirchen on the island of Rügen. He was the son of ecclesiastic Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1758–1818).

Johann Gottfried Pratsch, was a Czech composer of music. He spent most of his life in Russia, and sometimes supported himself by teaching music to students at the Smolnїy Institute and at the St. Petersburg Theatre School.

Johann Gottfried Schnabel was a German writer best known for his novel Insel Felsenburg. He published his works under the pen name Gisander.

Johann Gottfried Seume (29 January 1763 – 13 June 1810) was a German author.

Johann Gottlieb Buhle, German scholar and philosopher, was born at Brunswick and educated at Göttingen. He became professor of philosophy at Göttingen, Moscow, and Brunswick. Of his numerous publications, the most important are the Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie und einer kritischen Literatur derselben, and Geschichte der neuern Philosophie seit der Epoche der Wiederherstellung der Wissenschaften. The latter, elaborate and well written, is lacking in critical appreciation and proportion; there are French and Italian translations. He edited Aratus and part of Aristotle.