John Murray

John Murray may refer to:

Arts and literature

• John Murray (1745–1793), founder of John Murray (publisher)
• John Murray (1778–1843), second head of the publishing house

• John Murray (novelist) (born 1950), British novelist
• John Murray (Australian novelist), (born 1963), Australian epidemiologist, and writer
• John Murray (actor) (born 1958), American actor
• John T. Murray (1886–1957), Australian-born actor
• John Murray (broadcaster) Irish broadcaster and journalist
• John Murray (playwright) (1906-1984) American playwright, co-author of Room Service

Law and politics

• John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl (1631–1703), leading Scottish royalist
• John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (1660–1724), Scottish nobleman and politician
• John Murray (British diplomat)
• John Murray (MP for Banffshire), member of the first Parliament of Great Britain 1707–1708
• John Murray (d. 1753), British Member of Parliament for the Linlithgow Burghs, 1725–1734, Selkirkshire, 1734–1753
• John Murray (1711–1787), British General and Member of Parliament for Perthshire, 1734–1761
• John Murray of Broughton (c. 1718–1777), Jacobite and secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart
• John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl (1729–1774), MP for Perthshire 1761–1764, Lord of the Isle of Man from 1764–1765
• John Murray (1726–1800), British Member of Parliament for the Linlithgow Burghs, 1754–1761
• John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), colonial governor of Virginia and later the Bahamas
• John Murray (colonial administrator) (1739–1824), governor of the Cape Breton colony in today's Nova Scotia
• John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl (1755–1830)
• Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet (c. 1768–1827), British Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett 1807–1811, Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1811–1818
• John Murray (congressman) (1768–1834), United States Representative from Pennsylvania
• John Murray, 5th Duke of Atholl (1778–1846)
• John Murray, Lord Murray (1779–1859), British Member of Parliament for the Leith Burghs, 1832–1839
• John L. Murray (representative) (1806–1842), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
• John Porry Murray (1830–1895), Confederate politician
• John Wilson Murray (1841–1914), Scottish-born police detective who worked in the USA and Canada during the late 19th/early 20th centuries
• John Murray (Victorian politician) (1851–1916), Premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912
• Hubert Murray, born John Hubert Plunkett Murray (1861–1940), judge and Lieutenant-Governor of Papua
• John Murray (MP for Leeds West) (1879–1964)
• John Murray (Queensland politician) (born 1915), member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1958 to 1961
• John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl (born 1929), British peer
• John E. Murray, Jr. (born 1932), professor of Law and Chancellor of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• John L. Murray (born 1943), Irish judge
• John Murray (New South Wales politician), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2003

Military

• John Murray (VC) (1839–1912), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Murray (general) (1892–1951), general in the Australian Army

Religion and theology

• John Murray (minister) (1741–1815), pioneer minister and an inspirational figure sometimes called the "founder of American Universalism"
• John Murray (archbishop) (1877–1956), Roman Catholic archbishop
• John Murray (theologian) (1898–1975), Scottish-born Calvinist theologian and Presbyterian minister
• John Courtney Murray (1904–1967), Jesuit priest and theologian

Science

• Sir John Murray (oceanographer), (1841–1914), pioneering Scots-Canadian marine biologist credited as the "father of modern oceanography"
• John O'Kane Murray (1847–1885), noted Irish physician and author
• John F. Murray (fl. 2000s), American psychologist

Sports

• John Murray (footballer) (fl. 1890s), Irish footballer
• Jack Murray, Australian Rules footballer
• John Murray (ice hockey) (born 1924), British ice hockey player
• John Murray (cricketer) (born 1935), former English cricketer
• John Murray (boxer) (born 1984), lightweight English boxer
• Johnny Murray (d. 1954), Irish footballer during the 1920s
• John Murray (sports broadcaster) (born 1966), English broadcaster for BBC Radio 5 Live
• Jon Murray, cross country coach

Others

• John Murray (Australian explorer) (c.1775–c.1807), seaman
• John Murray (Naperville founder) (1785–1868), one of the original settlers of Naperville, Illinois in 1831

See also

• John Murry, writer
• John Middleton Murry, Jr., Engllish writer

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.