List of Famous people named John
John Archibald Shaw-Stewart
John of Shanghai and San Francisco
Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco, was a prominent Eastern Orthodox ascetic and hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) who was active in the mid-20th century. He was a pastor and spiritual father of high reputation and a reputed wonderworker to whom were attributed powers of prophecy, clairvoyance and healing. He is often referred to as "St. John the Wonderworker".
John Dickinson
John Dickinson, a Founding Father of the United States, was a solicitor and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his twelve Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, published individually in 1767 and 1768. As a member of the First Continental Congress, where he was a signee to the Continental Association, Dickinson drafted most of the 1774 Petition to the King, and then, as a member of the Second Continental Congress, wrote the 1775 Olive Branch Petition. When these two attempts to negotiate with King George III of Great Britain failed, Dickinson reworked Thomas Jefferson's language and wrote the final draft of the 1775 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms. When Congress then decided to seek independence from Great Britain, Dickinson served on the committee that wrote the Model Treaty and then wrote the first draft of the 1776–1777 Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. Dickinson later served as president of the 1786 Annapolis Convention, which called for the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Dickinson attended the Convention as a delegate from Delaware.
John Shrapnel
John Morley Shrapnel was an English actor. He is known mainly for his stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in the United Kingdom and for his many television appearances. One of his well-known roles was Mr. Skinner in the 1996 live-action film 101 Dalmatians.
John Browning
John Moses Browning was an American firearms designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms – many of which are still in use around the world. He made his first firearm at age 13 in his father's gun shop, and was awarded the first of his 128 firearm patents on October 7, 1879, at the age of 24. He is regarded as one of the most successful firearms designers of the 19th and 20th centuries, and pioneered the development of modern automatic and semi-automatic firearms.
John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl
John George Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl,, styled Marquess of Tullibardine until 1917, was a Scottish soldier and Unionist politician.
John Rädecker
John Rädecker was a painter and sculptor from the northern Netherlands, best known for his Monument on the Dam.
John Hindmarsh
Rear-Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh KH was a naval officer and the first Governor of South Australia, from 28 December 1836 to 16 July 1838.
John Davis
John Andrew Davis is an American film producer and founder of Davis Entertainment.
John Robertson Aikman
Lt.-Col. Thomas Stokes George Hughes Robertson-Aikman was a Scottish soldier and curler.