John Nixon is the name of:

Politicians

John Nixon (MP) John Nixon (1588 – 14 April 1662) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1646 to 1653. Nixon was the son of William Nixon, a husbandman of Blechington and his wife Joan Silvester. He became a merchant at Oxford and acqu ...

, Member of the Long Parliament in England, representing Oxford City 1646-1648 * John T. Nixon (1820–1889), U.S. Representative from New Jersey *

John William Nixon John William Nixon, MBE (1880 – 11 May 1949), was a unionist politician and police leader in Northern Ireland who was alleged to be responsible for several sectarian atrocities, including the McMahon killings and the Arnon Street killings. ...

(1880–1949), Unionist politician in Northern Ireland

Military figures

John Nixon (Continental Army general) John Nixon (March 1, 1727 – March 24, 1815) was an American brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, on March 1, 1727, to Christopher and Mary Nixon. In 1755 ...

(1727–1815), Continental Army general from Massachusetts during the American Revolution *

John Nixon (financier) John Nixon (1733 – December 31, 1808) was a financier and official from Philadelphia who served as a militia officer in the American Revolutionary War. On July 8, 1776, he made the first public proclamation of the Declaration of Independence an ...

(1733–1808), Philadelphia merchant and militia officer during the American Revolution *

John Nixon (Indian Army officer) General Sir John Eccles Nixon (16 August 1857 – 15 December 1921) was a senior commander of the British Indian Army. He gave the orders for the ultimately disastrous first British Expedition against Baghdad during the First World War. Ea ...

(1857–1921), lieutenant general in the British Indian Army

Others

* John Nixon, Armagh, Irish Republican, see 1981 Irish hunger strike#1980 hunger strike * John Nixon, Australian artist, director of

Institute of Modern Art The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) is a public art gallery located in the Judith Wright Arts Centre in the Brisbane inner-city suburb of Fortitude Valley, which features contemporary artworks and showcases emerging artists in a series of group an ...

1980–82 * John Nixon (mining engineer) (1815–1899), English mining engineer *

John B. Nixon John B. Nixon Sr. (April 1, 1928 – December 14, 2005) was an American convicted murderer. He was convicted of the January 22, 1985 murder-for-hire of Virginia Tucker in Rankin County, Mississippi. Born in Midnight in Humphreys County, Mississip ...

(1928–2005), murderer in Mississippi, USA * John E. Nixon, director of Michigan state Budget office * John Colley Nixon (died 1818), English merchant and amateur artist * John Trice Nixon (born 1933), U.S. federal judge {{hndis, name = Nixon, John