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 Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett

First Name John
Last Name Poulett
Born on December 10, 1708
Died on November 5, 1764 (aged 55)

John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett, styled Viscount Hinton until 1743 was an English peer.

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John Randolph

First Name John
Last Name Randolph
Born on January 20, 1866
Died on March 21, 1936 (aged 70)

John Hugh Granville Randolph was the Bishop of Guildford and then Dean of Salisbury in the Church of England in the first decades of the 20th century.

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John Zimmerman

First Name John
Last Name Zimmerman
Born on November 26, 1973 (age 52)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

John Luther Zimmerman IV is an American professional pair skater and coach. With skating partner Kyoko Ina, he is the 2002 World bronze medalist and a three-time U.S. national champion. They also competed at the 2002 Olympics.

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John Peirson

First Name John
Last Name Peirson
Born on October 1, 1925 (age 100)
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John II of Werle

First Name John
Last Name Werle
Born on November 30, 1249
Died on August 27, 1337 (aged 87)

John II, Lord of Werle[-Güstrow] nicknamed The Bald, was from 1309 to 1316 co-regent of Werle and from 1316 to 1337 Lord of Werle-Güstrow. He was the second eldest son of John I of Werle and Sophie of Lindow-Ruppin.

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John Podhoretz

First Name John
Last Name Podhoretz
Born on April 18, 1961 (age 65)

John Mordecai Podhoretz is an American writer. He is the editor of Commentary magazine, a columnist for the New York Post, the author of several books on politics, and a former speechwriter for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

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John Evans Atta Mills

First Name John
Last Name Mills
Born on July 21, 1944
Died on July 24, 2012 (aged 68)

John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as President of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the governing party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 election. He was previously the Vice-President from 1997 to 2001 under President Jerry Rawlings, and he contested unsuccessfully in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He was the first Ghanaian head of state to die in office.

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John Tomlinson, Baron Tomlinson

First Name John
Last Name Tomlinson

John Edward Tomlinson, Baron Tomlinson, is a British Labour Co-operative politician. He is currently a life peer in the House of Lords, and was previously a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979, and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 1999.

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John VII of Werle

First Name John
Last Name Werle
Born on November 30, 1374
Died on January 1, 1414 (aged 39)

John VII of Werle-Güstrow was from 1395 to 1414 Lord of Werle-Güstrow. He was the second eldest son of Lorenz, Lord of Werle-Güstrow, and Mechthild. After the death of his father Lorenz in 1393 or 1394, his brother Balthasar initially ruled alone, but from 11 December 1395 John and Balthasar ruled Werle together. From 1 May 1401, their brother William was co-ruler as well.

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John Mauchly

John William Mauchly
First Name John
Last Name Mauchly
Born on August 30, 1907
Died on January 8, 1980 (aged 72)

John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.

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