John Murray

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Contents 1 Arts and literature 2 Law and politics 3 Military 4 Religion and theology 5 Science 6 Sports 7 Others

John Murray is the name of quite a few people in various fields:

Note: Each section is roughy in chronlogical order.

[edit] Arts and literature

• John Murray (1745–1793), founder of John Murray (publisher)
• John Murray (1778-1843), second head of the publishing house.
• John Murray (photographer) (1809–1892) Scottish photographer and physician, active in India.
• John Murray (novelist), (born 1950), British novelist
• John Murray (actor), (born 1958), American actor
• John Murray (filmmaker), Irish filmmaker who specialises in exploration documentaries, some featuring Dermot Somers

[edit] Law and politics

• John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (1660–1724), Scottish nobleman and politician
• John Murray (MP for Banffshire), member of the first Parliament of Great Britain 1707–1708
• John Murray (d. 1753), British Member of Parliament for the Linlithgow Burghs 1725–1734, Selkirkshire 1734–1753
• John Murray (1711-1787), British General and Member of Parliament for Perthshire 1734–1761
• John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl (1729–1774), MP for Perthshire 1761-1764, Lord of the Isle of Man from 1764–1765
• John Murray (1726–1800), British Member of Parliament for the Linlithgow Burghs 1754–1761
• John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), colonial governor of Virginia and later the Bahamas
• John Murray (colonial administrator) (1739–1824), governor of the Cape Breton colony in today's Nova Scotia
• Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet (c. 1768-1827), British Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett 1807–1811, Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1811–1818
• John Murray (congressman) (1768–1834), United States Representative from Pennsylvania
• John Archibald Murray (1779–1859), British Member of Parliament for the Leith Burghs 1832–1839
• John Wilson Murray (1841–1914), police detective born in England worked in the USA and Canada during the late 19th/early 20th centuries
• John Murray (Victorian politician) (1851–1916) Premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912
• John Murray (MP for Leeds West) (1879–1964)
• John Murray (Australian politician), member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1958 to 1961
• John E. Murray, Jr. (born 1932) professor of Law and Chancellor of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• John Murray (New South Wales politician), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2003

[edit] Military

• John Murray VC, (1839–1912) Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Murray (soldier) (1892–1951), general in the Australian Army

[edit] Religion and theology

• John Murray (minister) (1741–1815), pioneer minister and an inspirational figure sometimes called "founder of American Universalism"
• John Murray (archbishop) (1877–1956), Roman Catholic archbishop
• John Murray (theologian) (1898–1975), Scottish-born Calvinist theologian and Presbyterian minister

[edit] Science

• Sir John Murray (oceanographer), (1841–1914), pioneering Scots-Canadian marine biologist credited as the "father of modern oceanogrphy"
• John O'Kane Murray, (1847–1885), noted Irish physician and author
• John Murray (planetary scientist), research fellow at the department of Earth sciences, Open University; Planet X theorist
• John F. Murray (fl. 2000s), American psychologist
• John C. Murray, (1978-present), Research Fellow in emotional Robotics, University of Hertfordshire.

[edit] Sports

• John Murray (footballer) (fl. 1890s), Irish footballer
• John Murray (ice hockey), (born 1924) British ice hockey player
• John Murray (cricketer), (born 1935) the former English cricketer
• Johnny Murray (d. 1954), Irish footballer during the 1920s

[edit] Others

• John Murray (outlaw), of Falahill; Scottish outlaw
• 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