John Brown

John Brown may refer to:

• John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), American who led an anti-slavery revolt in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859
• John Brown (doctor) (1735–1788), Scottish physician who taught that disease was caused by either excessive or inadequate stimulation

John Brown may also refer to:

Higher Education

• John Brown University, Arkansas (no relation to any of the above John Browns)

Politicians

American

• John Y. Brown, Sr. (1900–1985), U.S. representative (D-KY, 1933–1935)
• John Y. Brown, Jr. (born 1933), Kentucky governor, 1979–1983
• John Y. Brown, III, Kentucky Secretary of the State, 1996–2000
• John Y. Brown (1835–1904), Kentucky governor 1891–1895, U.S. representative (D–KY, 1859–1861, 1873–1877)
• John Brown (Kentucky) (1757–1837), U.S. representative (VA, 1789–1792) and U.S. senator (KY, 1793–1805); member of Continental Congress from Virginia
• John Brewer Brown (1836–1898), U.S. representative (D–MD, 1892–1893)
• John Brown (Maryland) (died 1815), U.S. representative (DR-MD, 1809—1810))
• John W. Brown (New York politician) (1796–1875), U.S. representative (JD–NY, 1833–1837)
• John Brown (North Carolina) (1737–1812), pioneer and statesman
• John William Brown (1913–1993), Ohio governor for eleven days in 1957 (R)
• John Brown (Pennsylvania) (1772–1845), U.S. representative (PA, 1772–1845)
• John Brown (Rhode Island) (1736–1803), U.S. representative (F–RI, 1799–1801), co-founder of Brown University
• John C. Brown (1827–1889), Confederate general, Tennessee governor (1827–1889), (D)
• John Brown (Texas politician) (c. 1786–1852), Republic of Texas politician, speaker of the Texas state House of Representatives, 1846, (D)
• John Robert Brown (Virginia politician) (1842–1927), U.S. representative (R-VA, 1887–1889)
• John Henry Brown (1820–1895), Texas politician, historian, chaired Texas articles of Secession

Australian

• John Brown (Australian politician), elected to the Australian House of Representatives, 1977–1990

British

• John Wesley Brown (1873–1944), British Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough East, 1922–1923

Canadian

• John Brown (Canadian politician) (1841–1905), member of Parliament
• John Clemence Gordon Brown, former diplomat
• John Brown (reeve), Canadian politician

New Zealand

• John Evans Brown (1827–1895), Canterbury politician, known as "Yankee Brown"

Sports

• John Brown (American football) (born 1939), NFL player
• John Brown (baseball) (1876–1908), player for 1897 Brooklyn Bridegrooms, which later became Los Angeles Dodgers
• John Brown (basketball) (born 1951), NBA player
• John Brown (bridge player) (1887–?), UK contract-bridge player
• John Brown (footballer born 1915), Scottish association football player
• John Brown (footballer born 1962), Scottish association football player and manager
• John Alf Brown (1881–1936), Welsh international rugby player
• Johnny Brown (rugby league), Australian rugby league footballer
• Johnny Mack Brown (1904–1974), American football player

Religion

• John Brown (clergyman) (1784–1859), Scottish clergyman and writer
• John Brown (theologian) (1722–1787), Scottish clergyman and Biblical commentator
• John Brown (essayist) (1715–1766), English clergyman
• John Brown (vicar) (died 1845), eloquent British evangelical preacher and Vicar of St. Mary's Leicester
• John Brown of Bedford (1830–1922), Doctor of Divinity, pastor of Bunyan's Chapel, and author of many works of theology and church history
• John Henry Hobart Brown (1831–1888), Episcopal bishop
• John Edward Brown, third Bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf

Military

• John Brown (spy) (died 1964), UK spy and POW during the Second World War
• John Brown of Pittsfield (1744–1780), American Revolutionary War officer
• John M. Brown III, Lieutenant General in the United States Army
• John S. Brown, United States Army brigadier general; Chief Historian of the U.S. Army Center of Military History

Doctors and professors

• John Brown (doctor) (1735–1788), Scottish physician who developed his own medical “system”
• John Brown (physician) (1810–1882), Scottish physician and essayist
• John Brown (professor) (b. 1947), teacher of astronomy in Scotland
• John Campbell Brown (b. 1947), Scottish astronomer and professor
• John H. Brown, American scholar of public diplomacy
• John Ronald Brown (b. 1922), unlicensed United States sex-change operation surgeon

Other John Browns

• John Brown (Covenanter), Scottish 17th-century martyr
• John Brown (architect), British architect in the 19th century
• John Brown (American author) (b. 1966), novelist and short story writer
• John Brown (builder) (1809–1876), Canadian builder of Ontario's Imperial
• John Brown (educator) (1763–1842), third president of the University of Georgia
• John Brown (fugitive slave) (c. 1810–1876), writer of Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings and Escape of John Brown published in London, UK 1855
• Sir John Brown (industrialist) (1816–1896), UK inventor of a process for rolling armor-plate and founder of the Atlas steelworks, Sheffield Towers
• John Brown (servant) (1826–1883), Scottish servant of Queen Victoria
• Johnny Brown, American actor and singer
• John A. Brown, Jr. (died 1997), American murderer executed in Louisiana for the murder of Omer Laughlin
• John George Brown (1831–1913), American painter born Durham, England
• John Mason Brown (1900–1969), United States literary critic
• John Robert Brown (judge) (1909–1993), member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, noted for his key decisions in favor of civil rights
• John W. Brown (1867–1941), Canadian-born labor leader in the United States
• John W. Brown (set decorator), a set decorator who won an Academy Award
• John Brown (entity), entity in season one of ego trip's "The (White) Rapper Show"
• John E. Brown (1879–1957), founder of John Brown University

Fictional characters

• Inspector John "Gadget" Brown, the protagonist of the 1999 film Inspector Gadget
• The name of the sheriff in the song I Shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley
• The father in the Just William series.
• The name of the sheriff in the song Bad Boys by Inner Circle
• The millionaire in the musical comedy The Shop Girl
• The judge who puts Johnny away for ninety-nine years in Bruce Springsteen's "Johnny 99"
• The name of a physician who becomes the protagonist's fiancée in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate
• A character in the anime/manga Ghost Hunt

Other

• "John Brown", an anti-war song by Bob Dylan written in 1962 but unreleased until his 1995 MTV Unplugged performance
• John Brown & Company, a shipbuilding company based in Clydebank, Scotland that was part-owner of Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval
• John Brown Publishing, British magazine publisher with a stable including Viz and Fortean Times
• John Brown (Trial)
• "John Brown's Body", Union marching song of the American Civil War
• John Brown's Body (band), an American Reggae band
• John Brown University, a private Christian college located in Siloam Springs, Arkansas

See also

• Jon Brown, British-Canadian athlete
• John Browne (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Brown (disambiguation)
• Jack Brown (disambiguation)
• Jackie Brown (disambiguation)

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