John Cann
John Cann may refer to: * John Cann (politician) (1860–1940), New South Wales politician * John Cann (athlete) (born 1938), Australian athlete * John Du Cann John William Cann (2 June 1946 – 21 September 2011), later known by his stage name John Du Cann, was an English guitarist primarily known through his work in the 1970s band Atomic Rooster. Life and career His early bands included the Wil ...

John Cann (politician)
John Henry Cann (19 April 186021 July 1940) was a New South Wales politician, Treasurer, and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of James McGowen and William Holman. Background Cann was born in 1860 in Horrabridge, moving with his family to Northumberland in 1866. At the age of nine he began work in the coal mines. He moved to London in 1882 and migrated to Australia in 1887 following his marriage in 1885. After a brief period working as a coal miner at Port Kembla Cann moved to Broken Hill where he worked as a miner for BHP. He was also a Primitive Methodist lay preacher at this time. Political career Cann was elected president of the local branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association (AMA) in early 1890, defeating the more radical previous president, Richard Sleath. When the AMA formed a local branch of the Labor Electoral League in 1891 Cann was preselected as candidate for the state parliament seat of Sturt and elected in the same year. Cann was elected unopposed ...
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John Cann (athlete)
John Cann (born 15 January 1938) is an Australian athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track .... He held an Australian record in hurdles as well as New South Wales state records in hurdles, discus and javelin. He was described in The Canberra Times in 1957 as one of Australia’s best all-round athletes. He represented Australia in the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne finishing 10th in the decathlon. He also played rugby league for New South Wales Country Firsts (1959) and for the New South Wales state team (1960). He devoted his post-athletic career to exhibiting and studying snakes and writing several books and lecturing about them. He became known as the Snake Man of La Perouse (a suburb of Sydney). In a YouTube video titled The Snakeman of La Perouse he ...
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