John Edwards (disambiguation)

John Edwards (born 1953) is an American politician who was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

John Edwards may also refer to:

Political figures

• John Edwards (MP for Bridgwater) (1562–1573), MP for Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency)
• John Edwards (MP for Denbighshire) (c. 1562–1625), MP for Denbighshire
• John Edwards (MP for Flint Boroughs) (died 1635), MP for Flint Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency)
• John Edwards (Kentucky) (1748–1837), American politician of the Anti-Administration party
• Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, of Garth (1770–1850), Welsh politician and peer
• John Edwards-Vaughan (1772–1833), Welsh Member of Parliament for Glamorganshire and Wells
• John Stark Edwards (1777–1813), American politician from Ohio's 6th congressional district
• John Edwards (New York) (1781–1850), American politician from New York's 15th congressional district, 1837–1839
• John Edwards (Pennsylvania) (1786–1843), American politician; 4th congressional district; Anti-Mason (1839–1841) and Whig (1841–1843)
• John Edwards (Wisconsin) 1831–1891, American politician, Wisconsin State Assembly
• John Cummins Edwards (1804–1888), American politician; Democrat from Missouri; Congress at-large (1841–1843); governor (1844–1848)
• John Edwards (Arkansas) (1805–1894), American politician; Liberal Republican; 3rd congressional district (March 1871 – February 1872)
• John Passmore Edwards (1823–1911), English Liberal MP for Salisbury, elected in 1880; also newspaperman and philanthropist
• John Wesley Edwards (1865–1929), Canadian politician; Conservative from Ontario; House of Commons (1908–1921 and 1925–1929)
• Hugh Edwards (Liberal politician) (John Hugh Edwards, 1869–1945), Welsh politician; Liberal for Mid Glamorgan (1910–1918), Neath (1918–1922) and Accrington (1923–1929)
• John Edwards (Welsh politician) (1882–1960), Welsh Member of Parliament (Labour Party) for Aberavon; served 1918–1922
• John Edwards (English politician) (1904–1959), English MP (Labour Party); Blackburn (1945–1950); Brighouse and Spenborough (1950–1959)
• John S. Edwards (Virginia) (born 1943), American politician in the Senate of Virginia
• John Bel Edwards (born 1966), American politician in the Louisiana House of Representatives

Military men

• John Edwards (sailor) (1795–1893), British sailor and last survivor of the Battle of Trafalgar
• John Edwards (general) (1815–1894), American brigadier general who served in the Union Army during the Civil War
• John Edwards (American Civil War sailor) (1831–1902), member of U. S. Navy who was awarded Medal of Honor during the Civil War
• John D. Edwards (1885–1918), American naval officer awarded the Navy Cross

Sports people

• John Hawley Edwards (1850–1893), English footballer who played for England and Wales; a founder of Welsh Football Association
• John Dunlop Edwards (1860–1911), Jack Edwards, Australian cricketer
• John Edwards (footballer born 1875) (1875–?), English soccer player
• John Menlove Edwards (1910–1958), English child psychologist and poet
• William John Edwards (footballer) (born 1929), Jack Edwards, Welsh fullback, trainer, manager and scout
• Johnny Edwards (baseball) (born 1938), American Major League Baseball player
• John Edwards (basketball) (born 1981), American basketball player
• John Edwards (racing driver) (born 1991), American racing driver
• John Edwards (canoer) (born 1954), Canadian sprint canoer

Scholars

• John Edwards (academic) (1600–1660?), English scholar who served as Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University during 1638–1648
• John Edwards (Siôn Treredyn) (1605/6–1656), Welsh translator who used the pen name "Siôn Treredyn"
• John Edwards (1700?–1776), Welsh poet
• John Edwards (1747–1792), Welsh poet
• John Edwards (1751–1832), Irish poet
• John Edwards (antiquarian) (1846–1937), Scottish scholar and collector
• William John Edwards (1898–1978), Welsh musicologist
• John H. Edwards (1928–2007), British medical geneticist
• John Edwards (historian), Research Fellow in Spanish at the University of Oxford
• John Edwards (divine) (1637–1716), English Calvinistic divine
• John Edwards (minister) (1714–1785), English dissenting minister at Leeds, Yorkshire
• John Robert Edwards, professor of psychology at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Artists and writers

• John Edwards (painter) (1742–1815), English painter, designer, illustrator and botanist
• John Newman Edwards (1839–1889), American frontier writer and newspaperman
• John Paul Edwards (1884–1968), American photographer
• John Kelt Edwards (1875–1934), Welsh artist and cartoonist

Musicians

• John Edwards (musician) (born 1953), English bass guitarist for Status Quo
• Johnny Edwards (musician), singer for Foreigner

Others

• John Bryn Edwards (1889–1922), Welsh ironmaster and philanthropist
• John Edwards (producer) (born 1953), Australian television producer
• John Edwards (hymnist) (1805–1885), Welsh Anglican priest and hymn-tune composer
• John Edwards (Archdeacon of St Asaph) (fl. 1915–1964), Welsh Anglican priest
• John Edwards, English entrepreneur; one of the businessmen known as the "Phoenix Four"; involved in the May 2000 MG Rover buyout
• John Edwards, a contestant on the second season of the Australian version of The Mole
• John Edwards, picture editor of The Sun, one of eight people arrested in February 2012 as part of Operation Elveden
• John Edwards, police chief of Oak Creek, Wisconsin

See also

• Jack Edwards (disambiguation)
• Jackie Edwards (disambiguation)
• John Edwards Holbrook (1796–1871), American zoologist, naturalist and physician
• John Edward (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Edwards (disambiguation)
• John & Edward, X Factor finalists
• Edwards (surname)

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