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Politics

  • John James Fraser
    John James Fraser
    John James Fraser was a New Brunswick lawyer, judge, and politician.John Fraser was born at Beaubears Island, Northumberland County, New Brunswick. He married twice, the first time in 1867 to Martha Cumming. She died in 1871 and in 1884 he married Jane M...

     (1829–1896), Canadian politician
  • John Fraser (Ontario politician)
    John Fraser (Ontario politician)
    John Fraser was a Canadian politician.Born in Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Fraser came to Canada in 1852. He was mayor of Petrolia, Ontario from 1885 to 1889. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the electoral district of Lambton East in the 1896 federal election. A...

     (1849–1928), Canadian Member of Parliament for Lambton East, Ontario
  • John Anderson Fraser
    John Anderson Fraser
    John Anderson Fraser was a Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Shakespeare, Canada West and became a merchant and teacher....

     (1866–1960), Canadian Member of Parliament from British Columbia
  • Sir John Malcolm Fraser, 1st Baronet (1878–1949), British newspaper editor and political agent
  • John Malcolm Fraser (born 1930), 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, 1975–1983
  • John Allen Fraser
    John Allen Fraser
    John Allen Fraser, PC, OC, OBC, CD, QC is a retired Canadian parliamentarian and former Speaker of the House of Commons....

     (born 1931), Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, 1986–1993
  • John Fraser (UK politician)
    John Fraser (UK politician)
    John Denis Fraser was Labour Member of Parliament for Norwood in London from 1966 to 1997 and a solicitor.Fraser was educated at Sloan Grammar School and the Law Society College of Law, becoming a solicitor. He was a councillor on Lambeth Borough Council 1962-65 and the London Borough of Lambeth...

     (born 1934), British Member of Parliament for Norwood

Sports

  • John Fraser (Canadian soccer)
    John Fraser (Canadian soccer)
    John Alexander Fraser was a Canadian amateur football player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.....

     (1881–1959), Canadian soccer player and member of the 1904 Olympic Games Canadian Team
  • John Fraser (footballer born 1876)
    John Fraser (footballer born 1876)
    John Fraser was a Scottish professional footballer who was part of the Dundee team who won the Scottish Cup in 1910...

     (1876–1952), Scottish footballer, Southampton player and Dundee manager
  • John Fraser (footballer born 1936)
    John Fraser (footballer born 1936)
    John Fraser is a retired Scottish association football player, who played primarily as an outside right for in the late 1950s and early 1960s. After a brief spell with , Fraser returned to Hibs as a coach, a position he held for 10 years under three different managers.Fraser signed for Hibs in...

    , Hibernian footballer
  • John Fraser (footballer born 1953), Fulham footballer
  • John Fraser (footballer born 1978)
    John Fraser (footballer born 1978)
    John Fraser is a Scottish footballer.-Career:Fraser began his career with hometown club Dunfermline Athletic, before moving to Ross County...

    , Scottish footballer whose clubs include Ross County, Clyde and Forfar Athletic
  • John Fraser (tennis), Australian tennis player of the 1950s and 60s

Academia

  • John Fraser (botanist)
    John Fraser (botanist)
    John Fraser was a Scottish botanist, born at Tomnacross, the Aird, Inverness-shire. He moved to London, where he started work as a draper working with linen, but then, together with his son, took up botanical collecting, sending his collections to his plant nursery in London and to other clients,...

     (1750–1811), Scottish botanist
  • John Fraser (poet)
    John Fraser (poet)
    John Fraser or John Frazer was an Irish poet.Fraser was born at Birr, King's County, about 1809. He was by occupation a cabinet-maker, but employed his leisure in literary studies. He wrote, under the nom de plume of J. de Dean, a considerable quantity of sentimental and patriotic verse.He died in...

  • John Fraser (academician)
    John Fraser (academician)
    John Fraser was an American soldier and educator. He was the third president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1866 until 1868, and the second Chancellor of the University of Kansas serving from 1867 to 1874....

     (c.1823–1878), president of Pennsylvania State University, 1866–1868
  • John Fraser (Celticist)
    John Fraser (Celticist)
    John Fraser was Jesus Professor of Celtic at the University of Oxford.-Life:He was born in Inverness, Scotland, and studied at the University of Aberdeen, Trinity College Cambridge and the University of Jena...

     (1882–1945), Jesus Professor of Celtic at Oxford University
  • John Fraser (journalist)
    John Fraser (journalist)
    John Anderson Fraser, CM , is a Canadian journalist, author and academic who has served as Master of Massey College of the University of Toronto since 1995. As a journalist, Fraser has received multiple national awards and chaired the Canadian Journalism Foundation until 2008. He teaches a course...

     (born 1944), Canadian journalist and master of Massey College, University of Toronto

Others

  • John Fraser (bishop)
    John Fraser (bishop)
    John Fraser [also, more commonly then, Frisel or Frisell] was a late medieval Scottish prelate. Born about 1429 or 1430 if later tradition can be believed, with strong connections to the burgh of Linlithgow, Fraser held a variety of high-level ecclesiastical positions in Scotland, including being...

     (died 1507), Bishop of Ross, Scotland
  • John Fraser (British Army officer)
    John Fraser (British Army officer)
    General Sir John Fraser, GCH was a British Army officer.Fraser was the second son of William Fraser of Park, near Fraserburgh , and his wife, Katherine née Kinellar. On 29 September 1778, Fraser was appointed a lieutenant in the 73rd Highlanders, afterwards the 71st Highland Light Infantry...

     (1760–1843)
  • John Fraser (horticulturalist) (1821–1900), horticulturalist
  • John Fraser (architect)
    John Fraser (architect)
    John Fraser was a Scottish-born American architect who practiced in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC....

     (1825–1906), American architect
  • John Fraser (painter) (1858–1927), British painter
  • John Arthur Fraser (1838–1898), Canadian painter
  • Sir John Foster Fraser
    John Foster Fraser
    Sir John Foster Fraser was a British travel author. In July 1896, he and two friends, Edward Lunn and F. H. Lowe, took a bicycle trip around the world riding Rover safety bicycles. They covered 19,237 miles in two years and two months, travelling through 17 countries and across three continents...

     (1868–1936), British Parliamentary correspondent and travel writer
  • John Fraser (auditor), Auditor General of Canada, 1905–1919
  • John Fraser (educator)
    John Fraser (educator)
    John Fraser was the Principal of Edinburgh University from 1944 to 1948.Fraser House and Fraser Court at Pollock Halls of Residence were named after him.-Referenced:...

    , Principal of Edinburgh University, 1944–1948
  • John Fraser (critic)
    John Fraser (critic)
    John Fraser is a critic, literary theorist, and cultural analyst, who has been concerned in a variety of ways with relationships between energy and order.-Biographical Details:Fraser was born in Church End Finchley, North London, in 1928...

     (born 1928), English/Canadian author, literary theorist, and cultural analyst
  • John Fraser (actor)
    John Fraser (actor)
    -External links:* http://www.johnfraser.org/...

     (born 1931), Scottish actor
  • John MacLeod Fraser, former Canadian ambassador to China
  • John Fraser (film producer)
    John Fraser (film producer)
    John Dennis Fraser born Petersham, NSW 19 June 1930 died 1 September 2010 was an Australian film producer and film presenter. He co-produced The Man from Hong Kong the first Australian-Hong Kong co-production and Dangerfreaks ....

     (1930–2010), Australian film producer and cinema executive
  • John Fraser (d. 1306), Scottish independence fighter, brother of Simon Fraser

See also

  • John Frazer (disambiguation)
    John Frazer (disambiguation)
    John Frazer may refer to:*John Frazer , English architect and CAD pioneer*John Frazer , Australian-born English cricketer*John Fries Frazer , American geologist*Jack Frazer, Canadian politician...

  • Jonathan Fraser
    Jonathan Fraser
    Jonathan Fraser in Chicago, Illinois is an American actor who portrayed Tom Fisher in two episodes in the soap opera The Young and the Restless in 2004. He has also starred in TV shows such as Frasier and CSI.-External links:...

    , U.S. actor
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