List of Famous people named John

Name John is among the most common names in USA, England, Canada, Australia. Often it's a shorthand for Johann, Johannes. Similar names: Johann, Johannes, Jon, Johnny, Jonny, Jonah, Johnnie, Joni, Jona, Johny, Jhon, Jone, Jonna, Jonnie, Joon, Jono, Jonni, Jhoon, Jonne, Johnne. Here are some famous Johns:

John Hardiman Burke

First Name John
Last Name Burke
Died on January 1, 1808
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John Macdonald, 20th of Clanranald and Moidart and 6th of Benbecula

First Name John
Last Name Benbecula
Died on November 18, 1794
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John Savile, 8th Earl of Mexborough of Lifford

First Name John
Last Name Lifford
Born on May 16, 1931 (age 95)
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John Cocks, 1st Earl Somers

First Name John
Last Name Somers
Born on May 6, 1760
Died on January 5, 1841 (aged 80)

John Somers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers, known as The Lord Somers between 1806 and 1821, was a British peer and politician.

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John MacGregor of Glencarnoch in Balquhidder

First Name John
Last Name Balquhidder
Born on January 1, 1668
Died on September 18, 1744 (aged 76)
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John Cobbold

John Patteson Cobbold
First Name John
Last Name Cobbold
Born on July 12, 1831
Died on December 10, 1875 (aged 44)

John Patteson Cobbold was a Conservative Party politician in England.

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John F. Allen

First Name John
Last Name Allen
Born on May 6, 1908
Died on April 22, 2001 (aged 92)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

John Frank Allen, FRS FRSE was a Canadian-born physicist. At the same time as Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa in Moscow, Don Misener and Allen independently discovered the superfluid phase of matter in 1937 using liquid helium in the Royal Society Mond Laboratory in Cambridge, England.

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John II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

First Name John
Last Name Anhalt-Zerbst
Born on November 30, 1340
Died on April 11, 1382 (aged 41)

John II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst.

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John Wedderburn

First Name John
Last Name Wedderburn
Born on August 19, 1743
Died on January 1, 1820 (aged 76)
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John Francis Charles, 7th Count de Salis-Soglio

First Name John
Last Name Salis-Soglio
Born on July 19, 1864
Died on January 14, 1939 (aged 74)

Sir John Francis Charles de Salis, 7th Count de Salis was an Anglo-Irish British diplomat and landowner and Count de Salis-Soglio.

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