John Murray
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There have been several important people by the name of John Murray (roughly in chronological order):
- John Murray of Falahill, a Scottish outlaw
- John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (1660-1724)
- John Murray (MP for Banffshire), 1707-1708.
- John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), (Lord Dunmore), colonial governor of Virginia and later the Bahamas
- John Murray (minister) (1741-1815), "father of American Universalism"
- John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, Lord of the Isle of Man from 1764 to 1765
- John Murray (Australian explorer) (c.1775 - c.1807) seaman
- John Murray (publisher), London publishing house of Jane Austen, Lord Byron and Charles Darwin.
- John Murray (colonial administrator) (1739-1824), governor of the Cape Breton colony in today's Nova Scotia
- John Murray (1778-1843), second head of the publishing house.
- John Murray (American congressman), served as a representative from 1817 to 1820
- John Murray (photographer) (1809 - 1892) Scottish photographer and physician, active in India.
- Sir John Murray (oceanographer), (1841-1914), "founder of modern oceanography"
- John Murray (Victorian politician), (1851-1916) Premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912
- John Wilson Murray, (1841-1914), police detective born in England worked in the USA and Canada during the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
- John Murray VC, (1839-1912) Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- John Murray (archbishop), (1877-1956), John Gregory Murray Archbishop of Saint Paul from 1931 to 1956
- John Murray (theologian), 1898-1975, Calvinist theologian, Presbyterian minister, professor at Princeton Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary.
- John Murray (Australian politician), member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1958 to 1961
- John Murray (New South Wales politician), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2003
- John Murray (cricketer), (born 1935) the former English cricketer
- John Murray (actor), (born 1958), Bill Murray's brother who starred in Moving Violations
- John Murray, Jr. (born c.1940s) Professor of Law of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- John Murray (soldier) (1892-1951), a general in the Australian Army
- John O'Kane Murray, (1847-1885), a noted Irish physician and author.
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