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 de Burgh Persse

First Name John
Last Name Persse
Born on December 15, 1924 (age 101)
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John Pasquin

First Name John
Last Name Pasquin

John Pasquin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

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John Stevenson Salt

First Name John
Last Name Salt
Born on June 25, 1775
Died on August 16, 1845 (aged 70)
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John Walter Paulet St. John-Mildmay

First Name John
Last Name John-Mildmay
Born on November 1, 1866
Died on January 16, 1913 (aged 46)
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John M. Ford

First Name John
Last Name Ford
Born on April 10, 1957
Died on September 25, 2006 (aged 49)

John Milo "Mike" Ford was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.

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John Cornwell

First Name John
Last Name Cornwell
Born on January 1, 1940 (age 86)

John Cornwell FRSL is a British journalist, author, and academic. Since 1990 he has directed the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he is also, since 2009, Founder and Director of the Rustat Conferences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 2011. He was nominated for the PEN/Ackerley Prize for best UK memoir 2007 and shortlisted Specialist Journalist of the Year, British Press Awards 2006. He won the Scientific and Medical Network Book of the Year Award for Hitler's Scientists, 2005; and received the Independent Television Authority-Tablet Award for contributions to religious journalism (1994). In 1982 he won the Gold Dagger Award Non-Fiction (1982) for Earth to Earth. He is best known for his investigative journalism; memoir; and his work in public understanding of science. In addition to his books on the relationship between science, ethics and the humanities, he has written widely on the Catholic Church and the modern papacy.

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John Alfred Studdert

First Name John
Last Name Studdert
Born on October 3, 1864
Died on January 26, 1946 (aged 81)
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John Finnis

First Name John
Last Name Finnis
Born on July 28, 1940 (age 85)

John Mitchell Finnis,, is an Australian legal philosopher, jurist and scholar specializing in jurisprudence and the philosophy of law. He is currently the Biolchini Family Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School and Permanent Senior Distinguished Research Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. He was Professor of Law & Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1989 to 2010, where he is now professor emeritus. He acted as a constitutional adviser to successive Australian Commonwealth governments in constitutional matters and bilateral relations with the United Kingdom.

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John Lynch

First Name John
Last Name Lynch
Born on November 25, 1952 (age 73)

John Hayden Lynch is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 80th governor of New Hampshire from 2005 to 2013. Lynch was first elected governor in 2004, defeating first-term Republican incumbent Craig Benson – the first time a first-term incumbent New Hampshire governor was defeated for re-election in 78 years. Lynch won re-election in landslide victories in 2006 and 2008, and comfortably won a fourth term in 2010.

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John Richard Alford

First Name John
Last Name Alford
Died on April 7, 2012 (aged 42)
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