John Walker

Politicians

• John Walker (Virginia) (1744–1809), U.S. Senator, public official, and soldier
• John Walker (Missouri politician)
  John Walker (Missouri politician)
  
  John Walker , was a U.S. politician from Missouri.John Walker was born in Brunswick County, Virginia. He later moved to Kentucky, and eventually settled in Howard County, Missouri in 1818....
   (1770–1838), State Treasurer of Missouri
• John M. Walker, Jr.
  John M. Walker, Jr.
  
  John Mercer Walker, Jr. , is a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a cousin of U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W....
   (b. 1940), former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• John Randall Walker
  John Randall Walker
  
  John Randall Walker was a United States political figure from the state of Georgia .Walker was born near Blackshear, Georgia in 1874 and graduated from the Jasper Normal College in Jasper, Florida....
   (1874–1942), U.S. Representative from Georgia
• John Williams Walker
  John Williams Walker
  
  John Williams Walker was an American politician, who served as the United States Democratic-Republican Party United States Senate from the U.S....
   (1783–1823), U.S. Senator from Alabama
• John Walker (Canadian politician)
  John Walker (Canadian politician)
  
  John Walker was a Scotland-born industrialist and political figure in Ontario. He represented London in the Canadian House of Commons in 1874 as a Liberal Party of Canada member....
   (1832–1889), industrialist and member of the Canadian House of Commons

Sportsmen

• John Walker (athlete) (b. 1952), New Zealander winner of the Olympic Games 1500 metre run in 1976, and long-standing champion in the mile run
• John Walker (Middlesex cricketer) (1826–1885), cricketer and the eldest brother of the Walkers of Southgate
• John Walker (Surrey cricketer)
  John Walker (Surrey cricketer)
  
  John Walker , was a noted professional cricketer in the late 18th century. His career spanned the 1789 to 1806 seasons and he played mainly for Surrey county cricket teams and various representative sides, including Marylebone Cricket Club....
   (1768–1835), cricketer (brother of Tom and Harry Walker)
• John Walker (rower)
  John Walker (rower)
  
  John Drummond Walker was a Great Britain rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was the Coxswain of the British boat, which won the silver medal in the eights....
   (1891–1952), British coxswain and Olympic medalist
• John Walker (American football)
  John Walker (American football)
  
  John Walker is an arena football defensive back with the New York Dragons of the Arena Football League....
   (born 1983), former defensive back for the USC football team.
• John Walker (fl. 1970s and 1980s), known as Mr. Wrestling II
  Mr. Wrestling II
  
  John "Johnny" Walker , better known as Mr. Wrestling II, was an accomplished United States professional wrestling. As Mr. Wrestling II, Walker was one of the most popular wrestlers in the Florida and Georgia areas in the 1970s and early 1980s....
  , masked professional wrestler
• John Walker (footballer)
  John Walker (footballer)
  
  John Walker was a Scotland national football team international footballer who played for Liverpool Football Club in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, helping them to a Football League Championship....
   (1874–1940), Scottish international footballer
• John Walker (rugby league) (b. 1987), English rugby league player
• John R. Walker (horseman), Canadian Hall of Fame horse trainer
• John Walker (tennis), Australian tennis player of the 1960s

Entertainers and artists

• John Walker (animator)
  John Walker (animator)
  
  John Walker is an animator and television director. His first credit was Dick Tracy#Television.External links...
  , television animator and director
• John Walker (painter)
  John Walker (painter)
  
  John Walker is an England Painting and Old master printmaker.Walker studied in Birmingham. Some of his early work was inspired by abstract expressionism and post-painterly abstraction, and often combined apparently three-dimensional shapes with "flatter" elements....
   (b. 1939), nominee for the Turner Prize in 1985
• John Walker (Australian actor)
  John Walker (Australian actor)
  
  John Walker is an Australian actor noted for his role in the sketch comedy show Full Frontal and its successor Full Frontal . His most notable character in the series was sleazy news presenter Ian Goodings....
  , Australian comedic actor
• John Walker (movie producer)
  John Walker (movie producer)
  
  John Walker is a film producer for Pixar....
   (b. 1956), animated film producer
• John Walker (organist)
  John Walker (organist)
  
  John C. Walker , more familiarly known as John Walker, is an United States concert organist, Conducting, and Compact Disc recording artist....
   (b. 1941), recording artist
• John Maus (b. 1943), member of the 1960s singing group The Walker Brothers
  The Walker Brothers
  
  The Walker Brothers were an United States 1960s and 1970s pop music musical ensemble, comprising Scott Engel, John Maus, and Gary Walker . They had a number of top ten albums and singles in the mid-1960s, including #1 chart hits "Make It Easy on Yourself" and "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine "...
  

Military people

• John C. Walker
  John C. Walker
  
  John C. Walker was a physician and prominent Democratic Party political figure in Indianapolis, Indiana during the American Civil War. In 1861, he was commissioned Colonel in command of the 35th Regiment Indiana Infantry ....
  , Indiana physician and officer during the American Civil War
• John George Walker
  John George Walker
  
  John George Walker was a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War....
   (1821–1893), general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
• John Grimes Walker
  John Grimes Walker
  
  John Grimes Walker was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the American Civil War. After the war, he served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation and head of the United States Lighthouse Board....
   (1835–1907), United States Navy admiral
• John Walker (Medal of Honor recipient), American Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• John Walker (officer of arms)
  John Walker (officer of arms)
  
  John Riddell Bromhead Walker, Royal Victorian Order, Military Cross was a soldier and long-serving England Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London....
   (1913–1984), English officer of arms

Inventors and scientists

• John E. Walker
  John E. Walker
  
  John Ernest Walker is an England chemistry who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. He is currently the director of the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit in Cambridge....
   (b. 1941), British chemist, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize
• John Walker (inventor)
  John Walker (inventor)
  
  John Walker was an England pharmacist from Stockton-on-Tees, who in 1826 accidentally invented the friction match by mixing potassium chlorate and antimony sulfide....
   (1781–1859), English chemist and inventor of the friction match in 1827
• John Walker (programmer)
  John Walker (programmer)
  
  John Walker is a computer programmer and a co-founder of the computer-aided design software company Autodesk, and a co-author of early versions of AutoCAD, a product which Autodesk originally acquired from programmer Michael Riddle....
   (b. ca.1950), one of the designers of AutoCAD
• John Walker (naturalist)
  John Walker (naturalist)
  
  John Walker was Professor of Natural history at the University of Edinburgh from 1779 to 1803. He was a protege of the chemist William Cullen and a colleague of Dugald Stewart, Joseph Black and several other Edinburgh professors who shaped the intellectual milieu of the Scottish Enlightenment....
   (1731–1803), Scottish naturalist

Businessmen

• John Walker (grocer)
  John Walker (grocer)
  
  John Walker was a Scotland grocer, who originated what would become one of the world?s most famous whisky brand names, Johnnie Walker.Walker was born near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, Scotland....
   (1805–1857), Scottish founder of John Walker & Sons and namesake of the Johnnie Walker whisky brand
• John Brisben Walker
  John Brisben Walker
  
  John Brisben Walker was a United States magazine publisher and automobile entrepreneur, in later years a resident of Jefferson County, Colorado....
   (1847–1931), American entrepreneur and magazine publisher

Others

• John Anthony Walker
  John Anthony Walker
  
  John Anthony Walker, Jr. is a former Warrant Officer #Navy and communications specialist for the U.S. Navy convicted for selling his services as a spy to the Soviet Union from 1968 to 1985, the height of the Cold War era....
   (born 1937), Soviet spy active during the Cold War
• John Walker, one of the Birmingham Six
  Birmingham Six
  
  The Birmingham Six were six men ? Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Joseph Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker ? sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 in the United Kingdom for the Birmingham pub bombings....
   accused of bombings in England in 1974
• John Moore Walker, Jr. (1888–1951), American Episcopal bishop
• John T. Walker
  John T. Walker
  
  John Thomas Walker was Bishop of Washington, DC from 1977 to 1989 in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. From 1978 to 1989, he also served as Dean of Washington National Cathedral....
   (1925–1989), American bishop

Fictional characters

• John Walker, fictional character in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons
  Swallows and Amazons
  
  Swallows and Amazons is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome and was published in 1930. It is set in the Lake District between the two World Wars....
  
• John Walker, alter ego of U.S. Agent
  U.S. Agent
  
  U.S. Agent is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. He was created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary in Captain America #323 ....
  , ultra-patriotic crime fighter, formerly Super-Patriot and Captain America VI

See also

• Johnnie Walker (disambiguation)
  Johnnie Walker (disambiguation)
  
  Johnnie Walker is a brand of whisky produced in Scotland.Johnnie, Johnny, or Jonny Walker may also refer to:* Johnnie Walker , British radio disc jockey...
  
• Jack Walker (disambiguation)
  Jack Walker (disambiguation)
  
  Jack Walker was an industrialist from Blackburn, Lancashire who invested in the Blackburn Rovers football club.Jack Walker may also refer to:...
  
• Jon Walker, American bassist with Panic At The Disco
• Jonathan Walker (disambiguation)
  Jonathan Walker (disambiguation)
  
  Jonathan Walker may refer to:*Jonathan Walker, American reformer and slave stealer*Jon Walker, bassist*Jonny Walker, American soccer goalkeeper...