List of Famous people named John
John Talbot
John West III
John West III (1666–1734) was a justice and sheriff of King and Queen County and a House of Burgesses representative for King William County, all in the Colony of Virginia. He was the eldest son of Colonel John West, and grandson of John West (governor).
John West, 4th Earl De La Warr
John Richard West, 4th Earl De La Warr, styled The Honourable John West between 1761 and 1783, was a British aristocrat and courtier.
John Gofman
John William Gofman was an American scientist and advocate. He was Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California at Berkeley.
John Towneley
John Hopfield
John Joseph Hopfield is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative neural network in 1982. It is now more commonly known as the Hopfield network.
John Guckenheimer
John Mark Guckenheimer joined the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University in 1985. He was previously at the University of California at Santa Cruz (1973-1985). He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1984, and was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and served as president 1997–1998. Guckenheimer received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1966 and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was Stephen Smale.
John Wesley Young
John Wesley Young was an American mathematician who, with Oswald Veblen, introduced the axioms of projective geometry, coauthored a 2-volume work on them, and proved the Veblen–Young theorem. He was a proponent of Euclidean geometry and held it to be substantially "more convenient to employ" than non-Euclidean geometry. His lectures on algebra and geometry were compiled in 1911 and released as Lectures on Fundamental Concepts of Algebra and Geometry.
John Myhill
John R. Myhill Sr. was a British mathematician.
John Landy
John Michael Landy is an Australian retired middle-distance runner and state governor. He was the second man to break the four-minute mile barrier in the mile run and held the world records for the 1500-metre run and the mile race. He was also the 26th Governor of Victoria from 2001 to 2006.
