John (surname)
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John as a last name could also refer to South Asian last name infusion by British colonies. It could be traced to mixed ancestry or colonial adaptation of the name by the locals. Many last name in South Asian countries are found to have mixed ancestry (e.g. Anglo Indian, Anglo Pakistani or Anglo Sinhalese etc ). John as a last name surname
may refer to
British colonies also infused the last name John in many South Asian descendants. India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are the good examples of this.
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
may refer to
- Abdourahman John (born 1995), volleyball player for Marymount International Rome
- Augustus JohnAugustus JohnAugustus Edwin John OM, RA, was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom....
(1878–1961), Welsh artist - Avery JohnAvery JohnAvery John is a Trinidadian soccer player.-Youth and College:John attended Vessigny [Antilles] Government Secondary School and then Presentation College, and played college soccer for Yavapai College in Arizona and American University in Washington, DC...
(born 1975), Trinidadian footballer - Caroline JohnCaroline JohnCaroline John is an English actress best known for her role as Liz Shaw in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, as well as several other television roles....
, British actress - Collins JohnCollins JohnCollins John is a Liberian-born Dutch footballer.-Club:John started his professional career at Dutch first division side FC Twente as a 17-year old, going on to score 11 league goals during one-and-a-half seasons combined...
(born 1985), Liberia-born Dutch footballer - Adi DaAdi DaAdi Da Samraj , born Franklin Albert Jones in Queens, New York, was a spiritual teacher, writer and artist, and the founder of a new religious movement known as Adidam...
, formerly Bubba Free John and Da Free John, Guru - Dilwyn JohnDilwyn JohnDilwyn E. John is a Welsh former professional footballer and amateur snooker player.-Football career:A goalkeeper, John began his career at Cardiff City, making his debut at the age of seventeen in September 1961 during a 3-2 win over Chelsea. He struggled to maintain the number one spot and found...
(born 1944), former Welsh footballer - Elton JohnElton JohnSir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
(born 1947), British pop singer - Fritz JohnFritz JohnFritz John was a German-born mathematician specialising in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation.-Biography:...
(1910–1994), German mathematician - Gwen JohnGwen JohnGwendolen Mary John was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. She is noted for her still lifes and for her portraits, especially of anonymous female sitters...
(1876–1939), Welsh artist, sister of Augustus John - Little Willie JohnLittle Willie JohnWilliam Edward John was better known by his stage name Little Willie John. Many sources erroneously give his second name as Edgar...
(1937–1968), musician - Mable JohnMable JohnMable John is an American blues vocalist and was the first female signed by Berry Gordy to Motown's Tamla label.- Biography :...
(born 1930), singer - Otto JohnOtto JohnOtto John was the first head of the West German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution from 1950 to 1954...
((1909–1997)), a German, plotter against Hitler, convicted of treason during the Cold War - Peter JohnPeter JohnPeter John is a German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1999 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Milan.-References:**...
, is a German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s. - Radek JohnRadek JohnRadek John is a Czech journalist, writer, screenwriter and politician, current chairman of the political party Public Affairs . His novel Memento is the first book examining the drug problem in the context of the former communist Czechoslovakia...
, (born 1954) Czech politician - Roy JohnRoy JohnWilliam Ronald "Roy" John was a Welsh international footballer who played as a goalkeeper for several clubs in Wales and England.-Football career:...
(1911–1973), Wales international footballer - Roy JohnRoy John (rugby player)Ernest Raymond "Roy" John was a former and British Lions international rugby union lock. He played club rugby for Crynant and Neath. John was capped 19 times for Wales and was a member of two Grand Slam winning teams. In 1950 he was selected for the 1950 British Lions tour to New Zealand and...
, (1925–1981), Wales rugby union player - Sunny Benjamin John (better known as SB John), well known Subcontinental singer
- Stern JohnStern JohnStern John is a Trinidadian football player currently playing for North East Stars in Trinidad. He played for a number of high profile English football clubs that included Nottingham Forest, Birmingham City and Coventry City.-Early Career in US:John moved to the United States to attend Mercer...
(born 1976), Trinidadian footballer - Tommy JohnTommy JohnThomas Edward John Jr. is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball whose 288 career victories rank as the seventh highest total among left-handers in major league history...
(born 1943), American baseball player - Danny John-JulesDanny John-JulesDaniel "Danny" John-Jules is a British actor, singer and dancer. John-Jules attended Rutherford Comprehensive School, Penfold Street, Marylebone, from 1972 to 1977. He is best known for portraying Cat in the television programme Red Dwarf.-Dance and song:John-Jules is a baritone...
(born 1960), actor
See also
- John (disambiguation)
British colonies also infused the last name John in many South Asian descendants. India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are the good examples of this.