| john | American naval commander in the War of Independence (1747-1792) |
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| john | United States writer who created the Japanese detective Mr. Moto and wrote other novels as well (1893-1960) |
| john | a United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932) |
| john | American financier and philanthropist (1837-1913) |
| john | 6th President of the United States and son of the 2nd President (1767-1848) |
| john | United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917 |
| john | United States poet who wrote about California (1887-1962) |
| john | United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869) |
| john | British philologist and writer (born in South Africa) (1892-1973) |
| john | Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856) |
| john | Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871 |
| john | English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960) |