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 Stride

First Name John
Last Name Stride
Born on July 11, 1936
Died on April 20, 2018 (aged 81)

John Edward Stride was an English actor best known for his television work in the 1970s.

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John Sinclair of Stevenson, younger

First Name John
Last Name Younger
Died on January 1, 1643
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John Byng

First Name John
Last Name Byng
Born on August 16, 1811
Died on March 25, 1884 (aged 72)
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John Maclachlan, 23rd of Maclachlan

First Name John
Last Name Maclachlan
Born on January 1, 1859
Died on September 18, 1942 (aged 83)
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John Seward Johnson II

First Name John
Last Name II
Born on April 16, 1930
Died on March 10, 2020 (aged 89)

John Seward Johnson II, also known as J. Seward Johnson Jr. and Seward Johnson, was an American artist known for trompe-l'œil painted bronze statues. He was a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I, the co-founder of Johnson & Johnson, and of Colonel Thomas Melville Dill of Bermuda.

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John Sanford

Julian Lawrence Shapiro
First Name John
Last Name Sanford
Born on May 31, 1904
Died on March 5, 2003 (aged 98)

John Sanford or John B. Sanford, born Julian Lawrence Shapiro, was an American screenwriter and prose writer who wrote 24 books. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature describes him as, "Perhaps the most outstanding neglected novelist." A one-time member of the Communist Party, after he and his wife Marguerite Roberts refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee, they were blacklisted and unable to work in Hollywood for nearly a decade.

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John Byng

First Name John
Last Name Byng
Died on November 23, 1811
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John Bloom

First Name John
Last Name Bloom
Born on September 12, 1935 (age 91)

John Bloom is a British film editor with nearly fifty film credits commencing with the 1960 film, The Impersonator.

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John Rudolphus Booth

First Name John
Last Name Booth
Born on April 5, 1827
Died on December 8, 1925 (aged 98)
Born in Canada, Quebec

John Rudolphus Booth was a Canadian lumber tycoon and railroad baron. He controlled logging rights for large tracts of forest land in central Ontario, and built the Canada Atlantic Railway to extract his logs and to export lumber and grain to the United States and Europe. In 1892, his lumber complex was the largest operation of its kind in the world.

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John Bosworth Smith-Marriott

First Name John
Last Name Smith-Marriott
Born on October 13, 1837
Died on February 18, 1900 (aged 62)
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