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 (servant) (1826–1883), Scottish servant of Queen Victoria

John Brown may also refer to:

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 Young Brown III (born 1963), Kentucky Secretary of 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) (1760–1815), 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) (1738–1812), 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)
• 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, (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
• John Brown (Mormon), leader of the Mississippi Saints, father of Amy B. Lyman
• John Calhoun Brown (1879–1964), merchant and mayor of Minden, Louisiana
• John T. Brown (1876–1951), American politician; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1929–1931

Australian

• John Brown (Australian politician) (born 1931), elected to the Australian House of Representatives, 1977–1990
• John Brown (Tasmanian politician) (1886–1974), member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1948

British

• John Wesley Brown (1873–1944), British Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough East, 1922–1923
• John Brown (Wales MP) (died c. 1654), English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1653

Canadian

• John Brown (Canadian politician) (1841–1905), member of Parliament
• John Brown (Upper Canada politician) (1791–1842), merchant and politician in Upper Canada
• John Clemence Gordon Brown, former diplomat
• John Brown (reeve), Canadian politician
• John Cunningham Brown (1844–1929), Irish-born newspaper owner and political figure in British Columbia
• John Cameron Brown (1843–?), civil engineer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
• John G. Brown, Ontario politician
• John Livingstone Brown (1867–1953), Canadian politician, farmer and minister
• John Lothrop Brown (1815–1887), farmer, merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

New Zealand

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

Sports

American Football

• John Brown (American football, born 1891) (1891–1963), player for Navy, College Football Hall of Fame inductee
• Johnny Mack Brown (1904–1974), American football player
• John Brown (American football) (born 1939), NFL player

Association Football

• John Brown (footballer born 1866) (1866–1931), English footballer for Notts County
• John Brown (footballer born 1876), Scottish footballer for Sunderland
• John Brown (footballer born 1888), footballer for Manchester City and Stoke
• John Brown (footballer born 1901) (1901–1977), English footballer for Leicester City and Wrexham
• John Brown (footballer born 1915) (1915–2005), Scottish association football player
• John Brown (footballer born 1935), Scottish association football player
• John Brown (footballer born 1940), English association footballer
• John Brown (footballer born 1947), English association football goalkeeper
• John Brown (footballer born 1962), Scottish association football player and manager
• John Brown (Scottish footballer), Scottish professional footballer

Cricket

• John Brown (cricketer, born 1820) (1820–?), English cricketer
• John Brown (cricketer, born 1890) (1890–1968), English cricketer
• Jack Brown (cricketer) (1869–1904), English cricketer
• John Brown (Yorkshire cricketer) (1874–1950), English cricketer

Rugby

• John Alf Brown (1881–1936), Welsh international rugby player
• Johnny Brown (rugby league) (born 1943), Australian rugby league footballer

Other sports

• John Brown (Australian rules footballer) (born 1937), former Australian rules footballer
• 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) (1887–?), UK contract-bridge player and author
• John Brown (cyclist), New Zealand cyclist
• Jon Brown (born 1971), British-Canadian runner

Religion

• John Brown (bishop) (born 1930), Anglican bishop
• John Brown (Covenanter) (1627–1685), Scottish Protestant martyr
• John Brown (clergyman) (1784–1858), 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 of Fond du Lac
• John Newton Brown (1803–1868), Baptist teacher, minister and publisher

Military

• John Brown (British Army soldier) (died 1964), UK spy and POW during the Second World War
• John Brown of Pittsfield (1744–1780), American Revolutionary War officer
• John Brown (Medal of Honor) (1838–?), United States Navy sailor and peacetime Medal of Honor recipient
• John M. Brown III, Lieutenant General in the United States Army
• John S. Brown, United States Army brigadier general; Chief Historian of the United States 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 Campbell Brown (born 1947), Scottish astronomer and professor
• John H. Brown, American scholar of public diplomacy
• John Ronald Brown (1922–2010), unlicensed United States sex-change operation surgeon
• John Browne (anatomist) (1642–1702), was a British anatomist and surgeon

Other John Browns

• John Brown (American author) (born 1966), novelist and short story writer
• John Brown (architect), British architect in the 19th century
• 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
• Johnny Brown (born 1937), 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 Nicholas Brown II (1900–1979), heir of the Brown fortune and U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR) 1946–49
• 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), rapper and entity from ego trip's "The (White) Rapper Show"
• John E. Brown (1879–1957), founder of John Brown University
• John Macmillan Brown, Scottish-New Zealand academic, administrator and promoter of education for women
• John Brown (Cherokee chief)
• John Brown (Seminole Chief) (1842–1919)
• John Brown (artist) (1752–1787), Scottish artist
• John Brown (actor) (1904–1957), English radio and film actor
• John Appleton Brown (1844–1902), American painter
• John Arnesby Brown (1866–1955), English landscape artist
• John Carter Brown (1797–1874), book collector
• John Crawford Brown (1805–1867), Scottish landscape painter
• John Crosby Brown (1838–1909), partner in Brown Bros. & Co.
• John Lewis Brown (1829–1892), French battle, animal, and genre painter
• John Moulder Brown (born 1953), British actor
• Sir John McLeavy Brown (1835–1926), British lawyer and diplomat

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 (biography), a 1909 biography written by W.E.B Du Bois about the abolitionist John Brown
• "John Brown" (Bob Dylan song), a 1962 anti-war song by Bob Dylan
• John Brown & Company, a shipbuilding company based in Clydebank, Scotland that was part-owner of Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval
• John Brown Group, British magazine publisher with a stable including Viz and Fortean Times
• Virginia v. John Brown, trial of the abolitionist
• "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

• SS John W. Brown, Liberty ship
• John Browne (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Brown (disambiguation)
• Jack Brown (disambiguation)
• Jackie Brown (disambiguation)