John Edwards (disambiguation)

John Edwards (born 1953) is an American politician who was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

John Edwards is a name also shared by the following individuals:

Political figures

• John Edwards (Kentucky) (1748–1837), American politician; Anti-Administration party; one of state's first two U. S. Senators 1792–1795
• John Edwards, 1st Baronet (1770–1850), Welsh politician and peer
• John Edwards-Vaughan (1772–1833), Welsh politician; elected in 1830 as Member of Parliament for Glamorganshire and Wells
• John Stark Edwards (1777–1813), American politician; three months before his death was elected from Ohio's 6th congressional district
• John Edwards (New York) (1781–1850), American politician; Democrat from Fulton County; 15th congressional district (1837–1839)
• John Edwards (Pennsylvania) (1786–1843), American politician; 4th congressional district; Anti-Mason (1839–1841) and Whig (1841–1843)
• John Cummins Edwards (1804–1888), American politician; Democrat from Missouri; Congress at-large (1841–1843); governor (1844–1848)
• John Edwards (Arkansas) (1805–1894), American politician; Liberal Republican; 3rd congressional district (March 1871 – February 1872)
• John Passmore Edwards (1823–1911), English MP (Liberal) for Salisbury, elected in 1880; also newspaperman and philanthropist
• John Wesley Edwards (1865–1929), Canadian politician; Conservative from Ontario; House of Commons (1908–1921 and 1925–1929)
• John Hugh Edwards (1869–1945), Welsh politician; Liberal for Mid Glamorgan (1910–1918), Neath (1918–1922) and Accrington (1923–1929)
• John Edwards (Welsh politician) (1882–1960), Welsh Member of Parliament (Labour Party) for Aberavon; served 1918–1922
• John Edwards (English politician) (1904–1959), English MP (Labour Party); Blackburn (1945–1950); Brighouse and Spenborough (1950–1959)
• John S. Edwards (Virginia) (born 1943), American politician; Democrat; has served in the Senate of Virginia (21st District) since 1997
• John Bel Edwards (born 1979), American politician; Democrat; 72nd district in Louisiana House of Representatives since 2008

Military men

• John Edwards (sailor) (1795–1893), British sailor who, in the year of his 98th birthday was the last survivor of the Battle of Trafalgar
• John Edwards (general) (1815–1894), American brigadier general who served in the Union Army during the Civil War
• John Edwards (American sailor) (1831–1902), member of U. S. Navy who was awarded Medal of Honor during the Civil War
• John D. Edwards (1885–1918), American naval officer; posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for heroism during World War I

Sports people

• John Hawley Edwards (1850–1893), English footballer who played for England and Wales; a founder of Welsh Football Association
• John Dunlop Edwards (1860–1911), Australian cricketer who played in three 1888 Tests in England; best known as Jack Edwards
• John Edwards (footballer born 1875) (1875-?), English soccer player
• John Menlove Edwards (1910–1958), English child psychologist who wrote poetry based on his experiences as a leading rock climber
• William John Edwards (footballer) (born 1929), Welsh fullback (1949–1962); later trainer, manager and scout; best known as Jack Edwards
• Johnny Edwards (baseball) (born 1938), American baseball player who played for the Major Leagues from 1961 to 1974
• John Edwards (basketball) (born 1981), American basketball player, a 7-ft.-tall member of the NBA's Indiana Pacers
• John Edwards (motor racing) (born 1991), American racer driver who has competed in the Atlantic Championship and other developmental series
• John Edwards (canoer)

Scholars

• John Edwards (academic) (1600–1660?), English scholar who served as Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University during 1638–1648
• John Edwards (Siôn Treredyn) (1605/6–1656), Welsh translator who used the pen name "Siôn Treredyn"
• John Edwards (1700?-1776), Welsh poet
• John Edwards (1747-1792), Welsh poet
• John Edwards (1751-1832), Irish poet
• John Edwards (antiquarian) (1846–1937), Scottish scholar and collector
• William John Edwards (1898–1978), Welsh musicologist; leading exponent and teacher of the singing medium Cerdd Dant
• John H. Edwards (1928–2007), British medical geneticist, the first to describe the genetic disorder renamed the "Edwards Syndrome"
• John Edwards (historian), Research Fellow in Spanish at the University of Oxford
• John Edwards (divine)
• John Edwards (minister)
• John Robert Edwards, professor of psychology at St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada

Artists and writers

• John Edwards (painter) (1742–1815), English painter, designer, illustrator and botanist; known for publishing The British Herbal
• John Newman Edwards (1839–1889), American frontier writer and newspaperman who created the legendary aura of outlaw Jesse James
• John Paul Edwards (1884–1968), American photographer, a member of the group f/64; noted for pictorialist and straight styles

Musicians

• John Edwards (musician) (born 1953), English bass guitarist, better known as "Rhino" Edwards; plays in the rock group Status Quo
• Johnny Edwards (musician)

Others

• John Bryn Edwards (1889–1922), Welsh ironmaster and philanthropist; baronet in 1921, at the age of 32; died the following year
• John Edwards (producer) (born 1953), Australian television producer
• John Edwards, English entrepreneur; one of the businessmen known as the "Phoenix Four"; involved in the May 2000 MG Rover buyout
• John Edwards, a contestant on the second season of the Australian version of The Mole
• John Edwards, picture editor of The Sun, one of eight people arrested in February 2012 as part of Operation Elveden.

See also

• Jack Edwards (disambiguation)
• Jackie Edwards (disambiguation)
• John Edwards Holbrook (1794–1871), American zoologist, naturalist and physician
• John Edward (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Edwards (disambiguation)
• John & Edward, X Factor finalists
• Edwards (surname)