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 Bromley

First Name John
Last Name Bromley
Born on January 1, 1682
Died on January 1, 1718 (aged 36)
Born in Barbados

John Bromley, of Horseheath Hall, Cambridgeshire, was an English owner of land in England and Barbados, and a Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1707 to 1718.

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John Bond

First Name John
Last Name Bond
Born on July 24, 1941 (age 85)

Sir John Reginald Hartnell Bond is the chairman of Swiss mining company Xstrata. Previously he retired as chairman of HSBC Holdings plc on 26 May 2006, after spending 45 years with the bank.

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John Murray Egerton Glyn

First Name John
Last Name Glyn
Born on November 3, 1894
Died on September 10, 1936 (aged 41)
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John Banville

First Name John
Last Name Banville
Born on December 8, 1945 (age 80)
Born in Ireland

William John Banville is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real influences on his work.

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John Travers

First Name John
Last Name Travers
Died on September 12, 1712
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John G. Thompson

First Name John
Last Name Thompson
Born on October 13, 1932 (age 93)

John Griggs Thompson is a mathematician at the University of Florida noted for his work in the field of finite groups. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970, the Wolf Prize in 1992 and the 2008 Abel Prize.

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John Clute

First Name John
Last Name Clute
Born in Canada, Ontario

John Frederick Clute is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history" and "perhaps the foremost reader-critic of sf in our time, and one of the best the genre has ever known." He was one of eight people who founded the English magazine Interzone in 1982.

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John Lestrange, 1st Lord Strange (of Blackmere)

First Name John
Last Name Blackmere)
Died on May 12, 1361
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John Congreve

First Name John
Last Name Congreve
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John Barth

First Name John
Last Name Barth
Born on May 27, 1930 (age 96)

John Simmons Barth is an American writer who is best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction.

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