List of Famous people named John
John Brownlow Osborn
John Caglione, Jr.
John Caglione Jr. is a make-up artist. He won an Academy Award for Best Makeup for his work in Dick Tracy and was nominated for The Dark Knight. Starting in the business at age 15, he met Dick Smith, who in his opinion was the greatest makeup artist ever. Starting out in New York City, he did the make-up for the cast members of Saturday Night Live from 1976-1981.
John Michael Wright
John Michael Wright was an English portrait painter in the Baroque style. Wright trained in Edinburgh under the Scots painter George Jamesone, and acquired a considerable reputation as an artist and scholar during a long sojourn in Rome. There he was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca, and was associated with some of the leading artists of his generation. He was engaged by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, the governor of the Spanish Netherlands, to acquire artworks in Oliver Cromwell's England in 1655. He took up permanent residence in England from 1656, and served as court painter before and after the English Restoration. A convert to Roman Catholicism, he was a favourite of the restored Stuart court, a client of both Charles II and James II, and was a witness to many of the political maneuverings of the era. In the final years of the Stuart monarchy he returned to Rome as part of an embassy to Pope Innocent XI.
John Dallas Scott
John W. Harkrider
John of Thoresby
John of Thoresby was an English clergyman and politician, who was Bishop of St David's, then Bishop of Worcester and finally Archbishop of York. He was Lord Chancellor of England under King Edward III starting from 1349.
John Venning
John Thomas
John Campbell, 3rd of Cawdor
Sir John Campbell was a Scottish nobleman and knight, who was the son of Archibald Campbell, and Isabella Grant, a daughter of James Grant, laird of Freuchie and Elizabeth Forbes.
John Hubbard
John Hubbard was the 22nd Governor of Maine in the United States.