List of Famous people with last name Major

John Major was an English cricketer active from 1888 to 1889 who played for Sussex. He was born in Seaford and died in Wakefield. He appeared in twelve first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium pace. He scored 363 runs with a highest score of 106 and took three wickets with a best performance of two for 10.

John Major (1467–1550) was a Scottish philosopher, theologian, and historian who was much admired in his day and was an acknowledged influence on all the great thinkers of the time. A renowned teacher, his works were much collected and frequently republished across Europe. His "sane conservatism" and his sceptical, logical approach to the study of texts such as Aristotle or the Bible were less prized in the subsequent age of humanism where a more committed and linguistic/literary, approach prevailed. His influence in logic, science, politics, Church, and international law can be traced across the centuries and appear decidedly modern, and it is only in the modern age that he is not routinely dismissed as a scholastic. His Latin style did not help – he thought that "it is of more moment to understand aright, and clearly to lay down the truth of any matter than to use eloquent language". Nevertheless, it is to his writings, including their dedications, that we owe much of our knowledge of the everyday facts of Major's life – for example his "shortness of stature". He was an extremely curious and very observant man, and used his experiences – of earthquakes in Paisley, thunder in Glasgow, storms at sea, eating oatcakes in northern England – to illustrate the more abstract parts of his logical writings.

George Major was a Lutheran theologian of the Protestant Reformation. He was born in Nuremberg and died at Wittenberg.