John Wilson

John Wilson may refer to:

Politicians

Canada

• John Wilson (Lieutenant Governor of Quebec), Canadian viceroy
• John Wilson (Ontario politician) (1807–1869), lawyer, judge and political figure in Ontario, Canada
• John Henry Wilson (1834–1912), physician, professor and political figure in Ontario, Canada
• John Wilson (British Columbia politician) (born 1944), member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada
• John A. Wilson (sculptor) (1877–1954), Nova Scotia

Ireland

• John P. Wilson (1923–2007), Irish politician

United Kingdom

• John Wilson (MP for Castle Rising) (fl.1621), MP
• John Wilson (Scottish politician), member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP)
• Sir John Wilson, 1st Baronet (1844–1918), Member of Parliament for Falkirk
• John Wilson (Edinburgh MP) (1830–?), member of Parliament for Edinburgh
• John Wilson (Govan MP) (1828–1905), member of Parliament for Govan, 1889–1900
• John Wilson (Glasgow St. Rollox MP) (1837–1928), member of Parliament for Glasgow St Rollox, 1900–1906
• John Wilson, 2nd Baron Moran (born 1924), British soldier and diplomat
• John Wilson (1837–1915), British miner, trade unionist and Liberal-Labour politician
• John Wilson (London politician), leader, Greater London Council, 1984
• John Charles Wilson, Northern Irish politician
• John William Wilson (1858–1932), Member of Parliament for Worcestershire North 1895–1918 and Stourbridge 1918–1922

United States

• John Wilson (Massachusetts) (1777–1848), member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1813
• John Wilson (South Carolina) (1773–1828), member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• John Lyde Wilson (1784–1849), governor of South Carolina, 1822–1824
• John Thomas Wilson (1811–1891), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio
• John Frank Wilson (1846–1911), delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Arizona Territory
• John Henry Wilson (Kentucky) (1846–1923), lawyer and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1889–1893
• John L. Wilson (1850–1912), U.S. Senator from Washington State
• John Haden Wilson (1867–1946), Pennsylvania politician
• John H. Wilson (Hawaii) (1871–1956), mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii
• John A. Wilson (politician) (1943–1993), member of the Council of the District of Columbia
• John H. Wilson (judge), American judge from New York; author of Hot House Flowers

Other countries

• John Nathanial Wilson, Member of the New Zealand Legislative Council

Sports figures

• John Wilson (Australian rules footballer) (born 1940), former Australian rules football player for Richmond
• John Wilson (basketball) (born 1985), Filipino basketball player
• John Wilson (angler) (born 1943), British angler
• John Wilson (cyclist) (1876–1957), British Olympic road racing cyclist
• John Wilson (footballer born 1914) (1914–1988), English soccer player
• John Wilson (footballer born 1934), English professional footballer
• John Wilson (Australian rugby league) (born 1978), Australian rugby league player who has represented France
• John Wilson (New Zealand rugby league), New Zealand rugby league international
• John Wilson (soccer) (born 1977), American soccer player
• John Parker Wilson (born 1985), American football player
• John Wilson (1910s pitcher) (1890–1954), former MLB pitcher for the Washington Senators
• John Wilson (1920s pitcher) (1903–1980), former MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
• John Wilson (sport shooter) (1879–1940), Dutch sport shooter
• John Wilson (Yorkshire cricketer) (1857–1931), English cricketer
• Jack Wilson (cricketer) (1921–1985), Australian cricketer
• John Howard Wilson (born 1930), retired former professional rugby player for Scotland
• Jocky Wilson (John Thomas Wilson, 1950–2012), darts player
• John "Weenie" Wilson, American football player and multi-sport coach
• John Wilson (golfer) (born 1959), American professional golfer

Literary figures

• John Wilson (historian) (1799–1870), author of Our Israelitish Origin (1840), a founding text of British Israelism
• John Wilson (Canadian writer) (born 1951), children's writer, winner of the Norma Fleck Award
• John Wilson (playwright) (1626–1696), English playwright
• John Wilson (Scottish writer) (1785–1854), Scottish writer
• John Burgess Wilson (1917–1993), British author, pen name Anthony Burgess
• John Cook Wilson (1849–1915), English philosopher
• John Marius Wilson, author of Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
• J. Dover Wilson (John Dover Wilson, 1881–1969), professor and scholar of Renaissance literature
• John S. Wilson (music critic) (died 2002), American music critic and jazz radio host
• John Mackay Wilson (1804–1835), Scottish writer

Musicians

• John Wilson (composer) (1595–1674), composer and lutenist
• John Wilson (musician) (born 1947), musician from Northern Ireland
• John Carl David Wilson (1955–2006), known as Back Alley John, Canadian blues singer, songwriter and harmonica player
• John Wilson (conductor) (born 1972), orchestral conductor

Scientists and academics

• John Wilson (mathematician) (1741–1793), English mathematician
• John Wilson (industrial chemist) (1890–1976), British chemist
• John Wilson (Scottish academic), professor of public policy and management at Glasgow Caledonian University
• John A. Wilson (Egyptologist) (1899–1976), American Egyptologist
• John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993), Canadian geophysicist
• John T. Wilson (1914–1990), president of the University of Chicago, 1975–1978
• John Wilson Jr. (professor), professor of English in Japan
• John S. Wilson (economist), economist at the World Bank
• John Long Wilson (1914–2001), medical professor and university administrator

Police and military

• John Williams Wilson (1798–1857), English sailor
• John Wilson (Royal Navy officer) (1834–1885), British admiral
• John Moulder Wilson (1837–1919), Union Army engineer
• John Wilson (Captain) (1851–1899), Swedish sailor
• Jock Wilson (serviceman) (John Nicholson "Jock" Wilson, 1903–2008), Scottish soldier and centenarian
• Jock Wilson (police officer) (1922–1993), British police officer

Clergymen and missionaries

• John Wilson (Puritan) (1591–1667), Puritan minister of the Boston Church in Massachusetts
• John Wilson (Dean of Ripon), Anglican priest and Dean of Ripon Minster 1624–1634
• John Wilson (missionary) (1804–1875), Scottish missionary, educationalist; a founding father of Modern Mumbai (Bombay)
• John Wilson (Caddo) (1840–1901), leader in the Native American Church movement of the late 19th century
• John Wilson (priest) (1849–1926), Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh
• John Wilson (Chaplain of the Fleet), Anglican priest and Chaplain of the Fleet, 1943–1948
• John Leonard Wilson (1897–1970), former Anglican Bishop of Singapore

Others

• John Wilson, an alias of John Smith (housebreaker) (c. 1661–after 1727)
• John Wilson (bureaucrat) (1807–1876), official in the United States Department of the Treasury and United States Department of the Interior
• John Cracroft Wilson (1808–1881), British-educated civil servant in India, farmer and politician in New Zealand
• John Wilson (philanthropist) (1826–1900), Irish-born pioneer of the American West
• John Alexander Wilson (1829–1909), New Zealand farmer, soldier, public servant, judge and businessman
• John G. Wilson (1842–1892), UK patent agent
• John Appleton Wilson (1851–1927), American architect
• J. S. Wilson (John Skinner Wilson, 1888–1969), early Scouting notable
• John Wilson (philatelist) (1898–1975), Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection
• John C. Wilson (1899–1961), Broadway producer and director
• John Wilson (blind activist) (1919–1999), founder, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
• John David Wilson (1919–2013), English artist, animator and producer
• John J. B. Wilson (born 1954), founder of the Golden Raspberry Awards, 1980
• John Wilson (broadcaster) (born 1965), British journalist and broadcaster

Other uses

• John W. Wilson, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive that ran on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915; renamed Walter Robinson in 1901
• John Wilson Orchestra, formed by British orchestral conductor John Wilson in 1994

See also

• Jonathan Wilson (disambiguation)
• Johnny Wilson (disambiguation)
• Jack Wilson (disambiguation)

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