John Brown may refer to:

Politicians

American

(Listed in alphabetical order by state, office)

• John Y. Brown, Sr., U.S. Representative (1900?1985)
• John Y. Brown, Jr., Governor, 1970s (born 1933)
• John Y. Brown, III, Secretary of the State, 1990s
• John Y. Brown (1835?1904), U.S. Representative
• John Brown (Kentucky), U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky; member of Continental Congress from Virginia (1757?1837)
• John Brewer Brown, U.S. Representative (1836?1898)
• John Brown (Maryland), U.S. Representative (died 1815)
• John W. Brown (New York politician), U.S. Representative (1796?1875)
• John Brown (North Carolina), pioneer and statesman (1737?1812)
• John William Brown, Governor for eleven days in 1957 (1913?1993)
• John Brown (Pennsylvania), U.S. Representative (1772?1845)
• John Brown (Rhode Island), U.S. Representative, co-founder of Brown University (1736?1803)
• John C. Brown, Governor (1827?1889)
• John Brown (Texas politician), Speaker of the state House of Representatives, 1846 (c. 1786?1852)
• John Robert Brown (Virginia politician), U.S. Representative (1842?1927)

Australian

• John Brown (Australian politician), elected to the Australian House of Representatives from 1977 to 1990

Canadian

• John Brown (Canadian politician) (1841-1905), Member of Parliament

Sports

• John Brown (footballer) (b. 1962), Manager of Clyde FC and former football (soccer) player for Rangers Football Club
• John Brown (American football) (b. 1939), NFL player
• John Brown (bridge player), contract-bridge player
• John Brown (baseball) (1876?1908), player for 1897 Brooklyn Bridegrooms, which later became Los Angeles Dodgers
• John Brown (basketball) (b. 1951), NBA player

Religion

• John Brown (clergyman) (1784?1859), Scottish clergyman and writer
• John Brown (theologian) (1722?1787), Scottish clergyman and Biblical commentator
• John Brown (essayist) (1715?1766), English clergyman
• John Brown (vicar) (died 1845), eloquent British evangelical preacher and Vicar of St. Mary's Leicester
• John Brown of Bedford (1830-1922), Doctor of Divinity, pastor of Bunyan's Chapel, and author of many works of theology and church history
• John Henry Hobart Brown (1831?1888), Episcopal bishop

Military

• John Brown (spy), spy and POW during the Second World War
• John Brown of Pittsfield (1744?1780), American Revolutionary War officer
• John M. Brown III, Lieutenant General in the United States Army

Doctors and Professors

• John Brown (doctor) (1735?1788), Scottish physician who developed his own medical ?system?
• John Brown (physician) (1810?1882), Scottish physician and essayist
• John Brown (professor) (b. 1947), teacher of astronomy in Scotland
• John Ronald Brown (b. 1922), unlicensed United States sex-change operation surgeon
• John H. Brown, American scholar of public diplomacy

Other John Browns

• John Brown (abolitionist) (1800?1859), abolitionist
• John Brown (architect), British architect in the 19th century
• John Brown (builder) (1809?1876), Canadian builder of Ontario's Imperial
• John Brown (educator) (1763?1842), third president of the University of Georgia
• John Brown (fugitive slave) (c. 1810?1876), Writer of Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings and Escape of John Brown published in London, 1855
• Sir John Brown (industrialist) (1816?1896), inventor of a process for rolling armor-plate and founder of the Atlas steelworks, Sheffield Towers
• John Brown (servant) (1826?1883), Scottish servant of Queen Victoria
• Johnny Brown, American actor and singer
• John A. Brown, Jr. (d. 1997), American murderer executed in Louisiana for the murder of Omer Laughlin
• John Appleton Brown (1844?1902), American painter
• John George Brown (1831?1913), American painter born Durham, England
• John Mason Brown (1900?1969), United States literary critic
• John Robert Brown (judge) (1909?1993), member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, noted for his key decisions in favor of civil rights
• John W. Brown (1867?1941), Canadian-born labor leader in the United States
• John Brown (entity), entity in season one of ego trip's "The (White) Rapper Show"

Fictional characters

• Inspector John "Gadget" Brown, the protagonist of the 1999 film Inspector Gadget
• The name of the sheriff in the song I Shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley
• The father in the Just William series.
• The name of the sheriff in the song Bad Boys by Inner Circle
• The millionaire in the musical comedy The Shop Girl
• The judge who puts Johnny away for ninety-nine years in Bruce Springsteen's "Johnny 99"
• The name of a physician who becomes the protagonist's fiancée in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate

Things

John Brown may also be:

• John Brown & Company, a shipbuilding company based in Clydebank, Scotland that was part-owner of Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval
• John Brown Publishing, British magazine publisher with a stable including Viz and Fortean Times
• John Brown (Trial)
• ?John Brown's Body?, Union marching song of the American Civil War
• John Brown's Body (band), an American Reggae band
• John Brown University, a private Christian college located in Siloam Springs, Arkansas

See also

• Jon Brown, British-Canadian athlete
• John Browne (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Brown (disambiguation)
• Jack Brown (disambiguation)
• Jackie Brown (disambiguation)

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