John Murray

John Murray or John Murry may refer to:

Arts and media

Literature and music

• John Murray (1745–1793), founder of John Murray (publisher)
• John Murray (1778–1843), second head of the publishing house
• John Murray (Australian novelist) (born 1963), Australian epidemiologist, and writer
• John Murray (novelist) (born 1950), British novelist
• John Middleton Murry (1889–1957), writer
• John Middleton Murry, Jr. (1926–2002), English writer
• John Murry (musician) (born 1979), American musician

Screen, radio and performing arts

• John Murray (actor) (born 1958), American actor
• John Murray (broadcaster) (born 1964), Irish broadcaster and journalist
• John Murray (playwright) (1906–1984), American playwright, co-author of Room Service
• John T. Murray (1886–1957), Australian-born actor, see Bardelys the Magnificent
• Johnny Murray (voice actor), voice actor known for Bosko, the first star of Warner Brothers cartoons

Athletes

• Jack Murray (fl. 1935–1949), Australian Rules footballer
• John Murray (boxer) (born 1984), lightweight English boxer
• John Murray (cricketer) (born 1935), English cricketer
• John Murray (footballer) (fl. 1890s), Irish footballer
• John Murray (footballer born 1865), (1865–1922), Scottish footballer
• John Murray (ice hockey b. 1924), British ice hockey player
• John Murray (ice hockey b. 1987), American ice hockey player
• John Murray (English footballer) (born 1948), retired English professional footballer
• John Murray (sports broadcaster) (born 1966), English broadcaster for BBC Radio 5 Live
• Johnny Murray (1898–1954), Irish footballer during the 1920s
• Jon Murray (fl. 2000s), head coach of Texas Tech cross country teams

Law and politics

United Kingdom and Britain

• John Murray (died before 1640), MP for Guildford
• John Murray, Lord Bowhill (died 1714), MP in the first Parliament of Great Britain 1707–1708
• John Murray (d. 1753), British MP for the Linlithgow Burghs, 1725–1734, Selkirkshire, 1734–1753
• Lord John Murray (1711–1787), British General and MP for Perthshire, 1734–1761
• John Murray of Broughton (c. 1718–1777), Jacobite and secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart
• John Murray (1726–1800), British MP for the Linlithgow Burghs, 1754–1761
• John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl (1729–1774), MP for Perthshire 1761–1764, Lord of the Isle of Man from 1764–1765
• John Murray (colonial administrator) (1739–1824), governor of the Cape Breton colony in today's Nova Scotia, see Demerara rebellion of 1823
• John Murray (British diplomat) (died 1775), Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire 1765–1775
• Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet (c. 1768–1827), British MP for Wootton Bassett 1807–1811, Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1811–1818
• John Murray, 5th Duke of Atholl (1778–1846), British Army officer and landowner in Scotland
• John Murray, Lord Murray (1779–1859), British MP for the Leith Burghs, 1832–1839
• Sir Hubert Murray (John Hubert Plunkett Murray, 1861–1940), judge and Lieutenant-Governor of Papua
• John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl (born 1929), British peer

Scotland and Ireland

• 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, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), colonial governor of Virginia and later the Bahamas
• John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl (1755–1830), Scottish peer
• John Wilson Murray (1840–1906), Scottish-born police detective who worked in the USA and Canada during the late 19th/early 20th centuries
• John Murray (MP for Leeds West) (1879–1964), Scottish civil servant, university administrator and Liberal Party politician
• John L. Murray (born 1943), Irish judge

United and Confederate States

• John Murray (congressman) (1768–1834), United States Representative from Pennsylvania
• John L. Murray (representative) (1806–1842), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
• John Porry Murray (1830–1895), Confederate politician
• John E. Murray, Jr. (born 1932), professor of Law and Chancellor of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Down Under

• John Murray (pastoralist) (1837–1917), member of the Queensland Parliament from 1888 to 1903
• John Murray (Victoria politician) (1851–1916), Premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912
• John Murray (Queensland politician) (1915–2009), member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1958 to 1961
• John Murray (New South Wales politician) (born 1939), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2003

Military

• John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore (1685–1752), Scottish peer and British Army general
• Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet (1768–1827), general, led a brigade under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War
• John Ivor Murray (1824–1903), Scottish surgeon who practised in China, Hong Kong and then in Sebastopol in the Crimean War
• John Murray (VC) (1837–1911), 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 Gardner Murray (1857–1929), Episcopal bishop of Maryland and Presiding Bishop
• John Gregory Murray (1877–1956), Roman Catholic archbishop of Saint Paul
• John Murray (theologian) (1898–1975), Scottish-born Calvinist theologian and Presbyterian minister
• John Murray (priest) (1901–1973), Anglican priest and Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow
• John Courtney Murray (1904–1967), Jesuit priest and theologian

Science

• John Murray (science lecturer) (c. 1786–1851), Scottish geologist
• Sir John Murray (oceanographer) (1841–1914), pioneering Scots-Canadian marine biologist credited as the "father of modern oceanography"
• John O'Kane Murray (1847–1885), Irish physician and author
• John F. Murray (fl. 2000s), American psychologist
• John A. Murray (Inventor born 1960), Energy, Smog reduction Founder Cerma Industries developer of STM-3 lubrication technology

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
• John Murray (sheep breeder) father (ca.1812–1886) and son (1841–1908) breeders of merino sheep in South Australia.