John Walker
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Politicians
- John Walker (Virginia) (1744–1809), U.S. Senator, public official, and soldier
- John Walker (Missouri politician)John Walker (Missouri politician)John Walker was a U.S. politician from Missouri.John Walker was born in Brunswick County, Virginia. He later moved to Kentucky, and eventually settled in Howard County, Missouri in 1818. A decade later, he was elected to the Missouri State Senate. He was elected as State Treasurer of Missouri in...
(1770–1838), State Treasurer of Missouri - John M. Walker, Jr.John M. Walker, Jr.John Mercer Walker, Jr. is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a cousin of U.S. Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush...
(born 1940), former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit - John Randall WalkerJohn Randall WalkerJohn Randall Walker was a U.S. political figure from the state of Georgia. Walker was born near Blackshear, Georgia in 1874 and was graduated from the Jasper Normal College in Jasper, Florida...
(1874–1942), U.S. Representative from Georgia - John Williams WalkerJohn Williams WalkerJohn Williams Walker was an American politician, who served as the Democratic-Republican United States senator from the state of Alabama, the first senator elected by that state....
(1783–1823), U.S. Senator from Alabama - John Walker (Canadian politician)John Walker (Canadian politician)John Walker was a Scottish-born industrialist and political figure in Ontario. He represented London in the Canadian House of Commons in 1874 as a Liberal member....
(1832–1889), industrialist and member of the Canadian House of Commons - John Archibald WalkerJohn Archibald WalkerJohn Archibald Walker was a lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Halifax County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1925 to 1928 as a Liberal-Conservative member....
(born 1890), lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada
Sportsmen
- John Walker (athlete) (born 1952), New Zealander winner of the Olympic Games 1500 metre run in 1976, and long-standing champion in the mile run
- John Walker (Middlesex cricketer) (1826–1885), cricketer and the eldest brother of the Walkers of Southgate
- John Walker (Surrey cricketer)John Walker (Surrey cricketer)John Walker , was a noted professional cricketer in the late 18th century. His career spanned the 1789 to 1806 seasons and he played mainly for Surrey and various representative sides, including MCC....
(1768–1835), cricketer (brother of Tom and Harry Walker) - John Walker (rower)John Walker (rower)John Drummond Walker was a British rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.Walker was born in Oxford, the son of Rev. Edward Newburn Walker, senior tutor of Queens College, Oxford and his wife Gertrude May Hamilton...
(1891–1952), British coxswain and Olympic medalist - John Walker (American football)John Walker (American football)John Walker is an arena football defensive back with the New York Dragons of the Arena Football League.-High school years:...
(born 1983), former defensive back for the USC football team - John Walker (fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
1970s and 1980s), known as Mr. Wrestling IIMr. Wrestling IIJohn "Johnny" Walker , better known as Mr. Wrestling II, is a retired American professional wrestler. As Mr...
, masked professional wrestler - John Walker (footballer)John Walker (footballer)John Walker was a Scottish international footballer who played for Liverpool Football Club in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, helping them to a Football League Championship.-Life and playing career:...
(1874–1940), Scottish international footballer - John Walker (footballer born 1900)John Walker (footballer born 1900)John Walker was a footballer who played in the Football League for Walsall and Stoke. He made twenty four appearances for Stoke.-References:...
(1900–1971), footballer for Walsall and Stoke - John Walker (fullback)John Walker (fullback)John Walker was an English professional association footballer who played as a fullback.-References:...
, English footballer - John Walker (rugby league) (born 1987), English rugby league player
- John R. Walker (horseman), Canadian Hall of Fame horse trainer
- John Walker (tennis), Australian tennis player of the 1960s
- John Walker (cyclist), British Olympic cyclist
Entertainers and artists
- John Walker (animator)John Walker (animator)John Walker is an animator and director. His first credit was The Dick Tracy Show.-External links:...
, television animator and director - John Walker (painter)John Walker (painter)John Walker is an English painter and printmaker.Walker studied in Birmingham. Some of his early work was inspired by abstract expressionism and post-painterly abstraction, and often combined apparently three-dimensional shapes with "flatter" elements...
(born 1939), nominee for the Turner Prize in 1985 - John Walker (Australian actor)John Walker (Australian actor)John Walker is an Australian actor noted for his role in the sketch comedy show Full Frontal and its successor Totally Full Frontal . His most notable characters in the series was sleazy news presenter Ian Goodings, as well as impersonating John Howard, the Prime Minister of Australia at the time...
, Australian comedic actor - John Walker (film producer) (born 1956), animated film producer
- John Walker (organist)John Walker (organist)John C. Walker , more familiarly known as John Walker, is an American concert organist, choirmaster, and CD recording artist. Walker has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Asia, and Europe...
(born 1941), recording artist - John Walker (musician)John Walker (musician)John Joseph Maus , known professionally as John Walker, was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the founder of The Walker Brothers, who had their greatest success in the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom.-Early life and career:John Maus was born in New York City, the...
(1943–2011), born John Maus, member of the 1960s singing group The Walker Brothers - John Augustus WalkerJohn Augustus WalkerJohn Augustus Walker was a well-known Alabama Gulf Coast artist of the Depression era who was commissioned to undertake several art projects for the Works Progress Administration.-Early life:...
(1901–1967), Alabama Gulf Coast artist - John Henry WalkerJohn Henry WalkerJohn Henry Walker , a pioneer Canadian engraver and illustrator, was from County Antrim in Northern Ireland and as a young boy emigrated in 1842 to Canada with his family, settling in Toronto. In 1845 he was apprenticed for three years to the engraver Cyrus A...
(1831–1899), Canadian engraver and illustrator - John Walker (curator)John Walker (curator)John Walker III was an American art curator, and director of the National Gallery of Art, from 1956 to 1969.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University in 1930, where he studied with Paul J. Sachs....
, director of the National Gallery of Art
Military people and spies
- John C. WalkerJohn C. WalkerJohn C. Walker was a physician and prominent Democrat political figure in Indianapolis, Indiana during the American Civil War. In 1861, he was commissioned Colonel in command of the 35th Regiment Indiana Infantry . Disagreements with his superiors, including Governor Morton, led to his removal...
, Indiana physician and officer during the American Civil War - John George WalkerJohn George WalkerJohn George Walker was a Confederate general in the American Civil War.-Early life and military career:Walker was born in Jefferson City, Missouri...
(1821–1893), general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War - John Grimes WalkerJohn Grimes WalkerJohn Grimes Walker was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the Civil War. After the war, he served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation and head of the Lighthouse Board...
(1835–1907), United States Navy admiral - John Walker (Medal of Honor), American Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- John Walker (officer of arms)John Walker (officer of arms)John Riddell Bromhead Walker, CVO, MC was a soldier and long-serving English officer of arms at the College of Arms in London....
(1913–1984), English officer of arms - John Anthony WalkerJohn Anthony WalkerJohn Anthony Walker, Jr. is a former United States Navy Chief Warrant Officer and communications specialist convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1968 to 1985, at the height of the Cold War...
(born 1937), American communications specialist convicted in 1986 of spying for the Soviet Union - John Walker LindhJohn Walker LindhJohn Phillip Walker Lindh is a United States citizen who was captured as an enemy combatant during the United States' 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. He is now serving a 20-year prison sentence in connection with his participation in Afghanistan's Taliban army...
(born 1981), aka John Walker, imprisoned American captured as an enemy combatant in 2001, in Afghanistan
Inventors and scientists
- John E. WalkerJohn E. WalkerProfessor Sir John Ernest Walker is an English chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. He is currently the director of the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.He was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the son of Thomas Ernest Walker, a...
(born 1941), British chemist, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize - John Walker (inventor)John Walker (inventor)John Walker was an English chemist who invented the friction match.-Life and work:Walker was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1781. He went to the local grammar school and was afterwards apprenticed to Watson Alcock, the principal surgeon of the town serving him as an assistant-surgeon...
(1781–1859), English chemist and inventor of the friction match in 1827 - John Walker (programmer)John Walker (programmer)John Walker is a computer programmer and a co-founder of the computer-aided design software company Autodesk, and a co-author of early versions of AutoCAD, a product Autodesk originally acquired from programmer Michael Riddle...
(b. ca.1950), one of the designers of AutoCAD - John Walker (natural historian) (1731–1803), Scottish naturalist
- John M. WalkerJohn M. WalkerDr. John Mercer Walker, Sr. was an American physician and investment banker. A member of the prominent Bush-Walker family, he was a maternal uncle of US President George H.W. Bush....
(1909–1990), American physician and investment banker
Businessmen
- John Walker (grocer)John Walker (grocer)John Walker was a Scottish grocer, who originated what would become one of the world’s most famous whisky brand names, Johnnie Walker.-Biography:...
(1805–1857), Scottish founder of John Walker & Sons and namesake of the Johnnie Walker whisky brand - John Brisben WalkerJohn Brisben WalkerJohn Brisben Walker was a United States magazine publisher and automobile entrepreneur, in later years a resident of Jefferson County, Colorado.-Biography:...
(1847–1931), American entrepreneur and magazine publisher - John Hardeman WalkerJohn Hardeman WalkerJohn Hardeman Walker was an early landowner in southeast Missouri, most famous for convincing the United States Congress to place the Bootheel in Missouri instead of Arkansas....
(1794–1860), southeast Missouri landowner
Others
- John Walker, one of the Birmingham SixBirmingham SixThe Birmingham Six were six men—Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Joseph Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker—sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 in the United Kingdom for the Birmingham pub bombings. Their convictions were declared unsafe and quashed by the Court of...
accused of bombings in England in 1974 - John M. Walker (bishop) (1888–1951), Episcopal bishop of Atlanta
- John Walker (Bishop of Washington) (1925–1989), American Episcopal bishop
- John Walker (lexicographer)John Walker (lexicographer)John Walker was an English stage actor, philologist and lexicographer. Early in life he became an actor, his theatrical engagements including one with David Garrick at Drury Lane, and a long season in Dublin, Ireland. In 1768 he left the stage...
(1732–1807), English lexicographer, actor and philologist - John Walker (journalist)John Walker (journalist)John Walker is a British computer games journalist, as well as a cartoonist and TV critic.-Journalism:Walker has contributed to a range of print publications, including PC Gamer , Total Film, Linux Format, Cult TV, Edge, NGamer, Windows XP, PC Plus, Official Xbox Magazine, Gamesmaster and PC...
(born 1977), British video game journalist - John Walker (industrialist)John Walker (industrialist)John Walker was a prominent iron and steel industrialist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the early 20th century. He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now known as Pittsburgh's North Side. His father was a Scottish immigrant...
(1884–1932), Pittsburgh industrialist - John Walker (Archdeacon of Essex) (died 1588), Anglican archdeacon
- John Walker (scholar)John Walker (scholar)John Walker was an English classical scholar, a collaborator of Richard Bentley.-Life:He was son of Thomas Walker of Huddersfield, and was educated, like Richard Bentley, at Wakefield School, where he was under Edward Clarke. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a pensioner on 24 May 1710, at...
(1692?–1741), English classical scholar and Anglican archdeacon of Hereford
Characters
- John Walker, fictional character in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and AmazonsSwallows and AmazonsSwallows and Amazons is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome; it was first published in 1930, with the action taking place in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District...
(eldest of the Walker children and Captain of the Swallow) - John Walker, alter ego of U.S. AgentU.S. AgentU.S. Agent is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, usually those starring Captain America and the Avengers. He was created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary in Captain America vol...
, a comic book hero, who is an ultra-patriotic crime fighter, formerly Super-Patriot and Captain America VI
See also
- Johnnie Walker (disambiguation)Johnnie Walker (disambiguation)Johnnie Walker is a brand of whisky produced in Scotland.Johnnie, Johnny, or Jonny Walker may also refer to:In entertainment:* Johnnie Walker Johnnie Walker is a brand of whisky produced in Scotland.Johnnie, Johnny, or Jonny Walker may also refer to:In entertainment:* Johnnie Walker (DJ) Johnnie...
- Jack Walker (disambiguation)Jack Walker (disambiguation)Jack Walker was an industrialist from Blackburn, Lancashire who invested in the Blackburn Rovers football club.Jack Walker is also the name of:* Jack Walker , Canadian amateur ice hockey forward...
- Jon Walker (born 1985), American musician
- Jonathan Walker (disambiguation)Jonathan Walker (disambiguation)Jonathan Walker may refer to:*Jonathan Walker , American reformer and abolitionist*Jonathan Hoge Walker , United States federal judge*Jon Walker, American musician*Jonny Walker, American soccer goalkeeper-See also:...
- John Walker BailyJohn Walker BailyJohn Walker Baily , was an archaeologist.Baily was the brother of Charles Baily, and was born 9 January 1809, and died 4 March 1873. He was head of the firm of William Baily & Sons, and master of the Ironmongers' Company in 1862-3...
(1809–1873), archaeologist