John Harvey

John Harvey may refer to:

In sports

• John Harvey (racing driver) (born 1938), winner of the 1983 Bathurst 1000
• John Harvey (cricketer) (1939–2003), English cricketer
• John Harvey (rugby league) (born 1955), Australian rugby league player and coach
• John Harvey (American football) (born 1966), National Football League running back
• John Harvey (Canadian football) (born 1950), Canadian Football League running back
• John Harvey (football manager), manager of Heart of Midlothian F.C. 1966–1970
• John Harvey (footballer), Scottish footballer (Sunderland AFC)

In government and politics

• John Harvey (Virginia) (died 1646), 17th-century Crown governor of Virginia
• John Harvey (Albemarle) (died 1679), Governor of Colonial North Carolina
• John Harvey (North Carolina politician) (died 1775), 18th-century Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives
• John Harvey (British Army officer) (1778–1852), officer during the War of 1812 and Governor of several Canadian provinces
• John Harvey (Australian politician) (1823–1893), politician in the early days of South Australia, founder of the town of Salisbury
• John Harvey (British politician) (1920–2008), British Conservative MP for Walthamstow East

In military

• John Harvey (Royal Navy officer, born 1772) (1772–1837), long serving Royal Navy officer
• John Harvey (Royal Navy officer, born 1740) (1740–1794), long serving naval officer killed at the Glorious First of June
• John Harvey (RAAF officer) (born 1954), current serving RAAF Air Marshal
• John C. Harvey, Jr. (born 1951), admiral in the United States Navy

In entertainment

• John Harvey (actor) (1911–1982), English stage and film actor
• John Harvey (American actor) (1917–1970), American actor
• Harvey (announcer) (John Harvey, born 1951), American television and radio personality
• John Harvey (author) (born 1938), British author of crime fiction
• John D. Harvey (born 1968), American horror novelist

In business

• John Harvey (ironfounder), partner in Harveys of Hayle, late-18th-century ironfounders, father-in-law of Richard Trevithick
• John Harvey, founder in 1796 of John Harvey & Sons wine merchants
• John Harvey (1784–1862), founder of Harveys Brewery in Lewes, Sussex, England
• John Anthony Harvey (born 1935), British entrepreneur and logistician

Academics

• John Harvey (astrologer) (1564–1592), English astrologer and physician
• John Harvey (historian) (1911–1997), British architectural historian, who wrote on English Gothic architecture and architects
• John F. Harvey (John Francis Harvey, 1918–2010), Catholic priest and moral theologian, founder of Courage Apostolate (Courage International)
• John R. Harvey, playwright and professor
• John T. Harvey (born 1961), English-born American professor of economics at Texas Christian University

Other people

• John W. Harvey, astronomer and 1999 recipient of the George Ellery Hale Prize

Ships and boats

• SS John Harvey, a 1942 Second World War Liberty ship
• John J. Harvey, historic retired New York City fireboat

See also

• John Harvie (1742–1807), delegate to the Continental Congress
• Sir John Martin-Harvey (1863–1944), British actor
• Sir John Harvey-Jones (1924–2008), British businessman, chairman of ICI, then presenter of BBC TV show Troubleshooter
• Jonathan Harvey (disambiguation)
• Jack Harvey (disambiguation)
• John Hervey (disambiguation) (pronounced Harvey)