List of Famous people named John
John of Bar
John of Bar was lord of Puisaye. He was the son of Robert I of Bar and Marie de France. He was killed at the battle of Agincourt alongside his brother Edward III and his cousin Robert.
John Norman MacLeod
John Norman MacLeod was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1828 to 1830. He was the 24th Chief of Clan MacLeod.
John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly
John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly PC, known as Sir John Romilly between 1848 and 1866, was an English Whig politician and judge. He served in Lord John Russell's first administration as Solicitor-General from 1848 to 1850 and as Attorney-General from 1850 and 1851. The latter year he was appointed Master of the Rolls, a post he held until 1873. Knighted in 1848, he was ennobled as Baron Romilly in 1866.
John IV, Duke of Brittany
John of Montfort, sometimes known as John IV of Brittany, and 6th Earl of Richmond from 1341 to his death. He was the son of Arthur II, Duke of Brittany and his second wife, Yolande de Dreux. He contested the inheritance of the Duchy of Brittany by his niece, Joan of Penthièvre, which led to the War of the Breton Succession, which in turn evolved into being part of the Hundred Years' War between England and France. John's patron in his quest was King Edward III of England. He died in 1345, 19 years before the end of the war, and the victory of his son John IV over Joan of Penthièvre and her husband, Charles of Blois.
John Turner Hopwood
John Turner Hopwood was an English Liberal Party politician, and barrister.
John Hampden Snowden
John Douglas Johnstone
John Wingfield-Digby
John Kenelm Digby Wingfield Digby was an English landowner and Conservative member of parliament. His name is often given as Wingfield-Digby, but the family does not use the hyphen.
John I, Count of La Marche
John of Bourbon, was the second son of James I, Count of La Marche and Jeanne of Châtillon.
John I
John I, Lord of Mecklenburg, nicknamed the Theologian was Lord of Mecklenburg from 1234 until his death.