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 Edwards

First Name John
Last Name Edwards
Died on November 23, 1959

Lewis John Edwards OBE was a British university lecturer, trade union leader and Labour Party politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and was President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

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John Richard Hicks

First Name John
Last Name Hicks
Born on April 8, 1904
Died on May 20, 1989 (aged 85)

Sir John Hicks was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS–LM model (1937), which summarised a Keynesian view of macroeconomics. His book Value and Capital (1939) significantly extended general-equilibrium and value theory. The compensated demand function is named the Hicksian demand function in memory of him.

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John Henry Kyl

First Name John
Last Name Kyl
Born on May 9, 1919
Died on December 23, 2002 (aged 83)

John Henry Kyl was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Iowa's 4th congressional district from 1959 to 1965 and again from 1967 to 1973. He was a member of the Republican Party.

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John Steuart of Cardney

First Name John
Last Name Cardney
Died on January 1, 1711
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John Norman

First Name John
Last Name Norman
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John L. Hall

First Name John
Last Name Hall
Born on August 21, 1934 (age 91)

John Lewis "Jan" Hall is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch and Roy Glauber for his work in precision spectroscopy.

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John FitzGerald Snow

First Name John
Last Name Snow
Born on July 2, 1905
Died on February 7, 1973 (aged 67)
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John Ormsby Vandeleur

First Name John
Last Name Vandeleur
Born on January 1, 1839
Died on June 11, 1900 (aged 61)
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John Ponsonby-Fane

First Name John
Last Name Ponsonby-Fane
Born on July 21, 1848
Died on September 11, 1916 (aged 68)

John Henry Ponsonby-Fane was an English first-class cricketer and noted malacologist.

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John Desmond Henderson

First Name John
Last Name Henderson
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