List of Famous people named John
John Y. Mason
John Young Mason was a United States Representative from Virginia, the 16th and 18th United States Secretary of the Navy, the 18th Attorney General of the United States, United States Minister to France and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
John III, Marquis of Namur
John III was between 1418 and 1429 the last independent Marquis of Namur.
John Page
John Ferguson "Jack" Page was a British figure skater who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics and in the 1928 Winter Olympics. He was born in Brooklands, Sale, Manchester, and died in Manchester. In 1924 he finished fifth in the singles event. In the pairs competition he and his partner Ethel Muckelt finished fourth. Four years later he finished ninth in the singles event at the St. Moritz Games and with his partner Ethel Muckelt he finished seventh in the pairs competition.
John Reeves Jones Daniel
John Reeves Jones Daniel was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina.
John Owen
John Owen was a Welsh epigrammatist, most known for his Latin epigrams, collected in his Epigrammata.
John Stow
John Stow was an English historian and antiquarian. He wrote a series of chronicles of English history, published from 1565 onwards under such titles as The Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles, The Chronicles of England, and The Annales of England; and also A Survey of London. A. L. Rowse has described him as "one of the best historians of that age; indefatigable in the trouble he took, thorough and conscientious, accurate – above all things devoted to truth".
John Morton
John Morton was a farmer, surveyor, and jurist from the Province of Pennsylvania and a Founding Father of the United States. As a delegate to the Continental Congress during the American Revolution, he was a signatory to the Continental Association and the United States Declaration of Independence. Morton provided the swing vote that allowed Pennsylvania to vote in favor of the United States Declaration of Independence. Morton chaired the committee that wrote the Articles of Confederation.
John Caius
John Caius, also known as Johannes Caius and Ioannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
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John Rouse
Sir John Rouse was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1626.