John Edwards (disambiguation)

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

John Edwards may also refer to:

John Edwards (Born 1960) is a former British Bobsleigh Athlete and British Bobsleigh Coach. He Coached the women’s British Bobsleigh Team at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Entertainment

• John Edwards (1699–1776), Welsh poet
• John Edwards (1747–1792), Welsh poet
• John Edwards (1751–1832), Irish poet
• John Edwards (painter) (1742–1815), English painter, designer, illustrator and botanist
• John Kelt Edwards (1875–1934), Welsh artist and cartoonist
• John Paul Edwards (1884–1968), American photographer
• John Uzzell Edwards (1934–2014), Welsh painter
• John Edwards (singer) (born 1944), American R&B singer for the Spinners
• John Edwards (musician) (born 1953), English bass guitarist for Status Quo
• John Edwards (producer) (born 1953), Australian television drama producer
• Johnny Edwards (musician), singer for the band Foreigner

Politics

U.S.

• John Edwards (Kentucky politician) (1748–1837), Anti-Administration party
• John Edwards (18th-century politician) (1760–1798), mayor of Charleston, South Carolina
• John Stark Edwards (1777–1813), Ohio's 6th congressional district
• John Edwards (New York politician) (1781–1850), 15th congressional district, 1837–1839
• John Edwards (Pennsylvania politician) (1786–1843), 4th congressional district Anti-Mason (1839–1841) and Whig (1841–1843)
• John Cummins Edwards (1804–1888), Democrat from Missouri; Congress at-large (1841–1843); governor (1844–1848)
• John Edwards (Arkansas politician) (1805–1894), 3rd congressional district (March 1871 – February 1872)
• John Edwards (Wisconsin politician) (1831–1891), Wisconsin State Assembly
• John S. Edwards (Virginia politician) (born 1943), in the Senate of Virginia
• John Edwards (Rhode Island politician) (born 1958), state legislator in Rhode Island
• John Bel Edwards (born 1966), Governor of Louisiana
• John Charles Edwards, Arkansas House of Representatives

U.K.

• John Edwards (MP for Bridgwater) (fl. 1562–1573), MP for Bridgwater
• John Edwards (MP for Denbighshire) (c. 1562–1625), MP for Denbighshire
• John Edwards (MP for Flint Boroughs) (died 1635), MP for Flint Boroughs
• Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, of Garth (1770–1850), Welsh politician and peer
• John Edwards-Vaughan (1772–1833), Welsh Member of Parliament for Glamorganshire and Wells
• John Passmore Edwards (1823–1911), English Liberal MP for Salisbury, elected in 1880; also newspaperman and philanthropist
• 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 Labour politician) (1904–1959), Blackburn (1945–1950); Brighouse and Spenborough (1950–1959)

Elsewhere

• John Edwards (Australian politician) (1820–1872), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
• John Wesley Edwards (1865–1929), Conservative politician from Ontario; House of Commons (1908–1921 and 1925–1929)

Religion

• John Edwards (divine) (1637–1716), English Calvinistic divine
• John Edwards (minister) (1714–1785), English dissenting minister at Leeds, Yorkshire
• John Edwards (missionary) (1828–1903), American protestant minister to the Choctaw Nation, best known for work at Wheelock Mission in present-day Oklahoma
• John Edwards (hymnist) (1805–1885), Welsh Anglican priest and hymn composer
• John Edwards (Archdeacon of St Asaph) (fl. 1915–1964), Welsh Anglican priest

Sports

• John Hawley Edwards (1850–1893), footballer in England and Wales; a founder of Welsh Football Association
• John Dunlop Edwards (1860–1911), Jack Edwards, Australian cricketer
• John Edwards (footballer, born 1875) (1875–?), English soccer player
• John Edwards (Canadian football) (1912–2005), Canadian football player
• John Edwards (cricketer, born 1928) (1928–2002), Australian cricketer
• John Edwards (Australian footballer) (born 1942), Australian rules footballer
• John Edwards (canoeist) (born 1954), Canadian sprint canoer
• John Edwards (basketball) (born 1981), American basketball player
• John Edwards (racing driver) (born 1991), American racing driver

Other

• John Edwards (academic) (1600–1660?), professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University 1638–1648
• John Edwards (Siôn Treredyn) (1605/6–1656), Welsh translator who used the pen name "Siôn Treredyn"
• John Edwards (American Civil War sailor) (1831–1902), member of U.S. Navy who was awarded Medal of Honor during the Civil War
• John Newman Edwards (1839–1889), American frontier writer and newspaperman
• John D. Edwards (1885–1918), American naval officer awarded the Navy Cross
• John Bryn Edwards (1889–1922), Welsh ironmaster and philanthropist
• John Ellis Edwards Tuskegee Airman
• John Menlove Edwards (1910–1958), English child psychologist and poet
• John H. Edwards (1928–2007), British medical geneticist
• John Robert Edwards (born 1947), professor of psychology at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada
• John A. Edwards, Irish judge
• John M. Edwards, professor of surgery
• John Arthur Edwards, Antarctic botanist
• John Edwards (antiquarian) (1846–1937), Scottish lawyer, palaeographer and collector, see Edwards Professor of Medieval History

See also

• Jack Edwards (disambiguation)
• Jackie Edwards (disambiguation)
• John Edwards Holbrook (1796–1871), American zoologist, naturalist and physician
• John Edward (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Edwards (disambiguation)
• John & Edward, X Factor finalists
• Edwards (surname)