| john | American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress |
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| john | English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika |
| john | American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638) |
| john | United States physicist (1899-1980) |
| john | English actor who edited the first folio of Shakespeare's plays (1556-1630) |
| john | English actor who edited the first folio of Shakespeare's plays (1556-1630) |
| john | hero of American folk tales |
| john | English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford Movement |
| john | United States writer (1905-1970) |
| john | English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871) |
| john | made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962 |
| john | United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915) |