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 Cassavetes

First Name John
Last Name Cassavetes
Born on December 9, 1929
Died on February 3, 1989 (aged 59)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

John Nicholas Cassavetes was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. First known as an actor on television and in film, Cassavetes also became a pioneer of American independent cinema, writing and directing movies financed in part with income from his acting work. AllMovie called him "an iconoclastic maverick," while The New Yorker suggested that he "may be the most influential American director of the last half century."

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John Fashanu

First Name John
Last Name Fashanu
Born on September 18, 1962 (age 63)

John Fashanu is a British television presenter and former professional footballer. In his former career, he was a powerful centre-forward from 1978 until 1995, most notably in an eight-year spell at Wimbledon F.C. in which he won the FA Cup in 1988 and scored over 100 goals in all competitions. He was also capped twice at senior level by England.

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John Noakes

First Name John
Last Name Noakes
Born on March 6, 1934
Died on May 28, 2017 (aged 83)

John Noakes was an English television presenter and personality, who co-presented the BBC children's magazine programme Blue Peter in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the show's longest-serving presenter, with a tenure that lasted 12 years and 6 months.

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John Aniston

Γιάννης Αναστασάκης
First Name John
Last Name Aniston
Born on July 24, 1933 (age 92)
Born in Greece, Crete Region

John Anthony Aniston is a Greek-born American actor. He is best known for his role as Victor Kiriakis on the NBC daytime drama series Days of Our Lives, which he originated in July 1985 and has played continually since then. He is the father of Jennifer Aniston.

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John Dodson

John Thomas Dodson III
First Name John
Last Name Dodson
Born on September 26, 1984 (age 41)
Height 160 cm | 5'3

John Thomas Dodson III is an American mixed martial artist. A professional MMA competitor since 2004, Dodson has made a name for himself fighting mainly in the Southwest region. He was the winner of the Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller and formerly competed in Ultimate Fighting Championship were he was a 2-time Title Challenger, competeing most recently in the Bantamweight division and is a Veteran of the promotion with 9 years of competition(2011-2020)

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John D. Rockefeller Jr.

First Name John
Last Name Jr.
Born on January 29, 1874
Died on May 11, 1960 (aged 86)

John Davison Rockefeller Jr. was an American financier and philanthropist, and only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was often known as “Junior”, to distinguish him from his father.

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John Cornforth

First Name John
Last Name Cornforth
Born on September 7, 1917
Died on December 8, 2013 (aged 96)

Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., AC, CBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.

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John P. O'Neill

John Patrick O'Neill
First Name John
Last Name O'Neill
Born on February 6, 1952
Died on September 11, 2001 (aged 49)

John Patrick O'Neill was an American counter-terrorism expert who worked as a special agent and eventually a Special Agent in Charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 1995, O'Neill began to intensely study the roots of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing after he assisted in the capture of Ramzi Yousef, who was the leader of that plot.

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John Warner

John William Warner
First Name John
Last Name Warner
Born on February 18, 1927
Died on May 25, 2021 (aged 94)

John William Warner III is an American attorney and former politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 2009. He currently works for the law firm of Hogan Lovells, where he had previously worked before joining the United States Department of Defense as the Under Secretary of the Navy during the presidency of Richard Nixon in 1969.

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John Perry Barlow

First Name John
Last Name Barlow
Born on October 3, 1947
Died on February 7, 2018 (aged 70)

John Perry Barlow was an American poet and essayist, a cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He was also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He was Fellow Emeritus at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, where he had maintained an affiliation since 1998.

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