John Clarke may refer to:

Arts

John Clarke Whitfield John Clarke-Whitfeld (13 December 1770 – 22 February 1836) was an English organist and composer. Life He was born John Clarke at Gloucester, and educated at Oxford under Dr Philip Hayes. In 1789 he was appointed organist of the pari ...

(1770–1836), English organist and composer * John Sleeper Clarke (1833–1899), American/British actor and manager * John Louis Clarke (1881–1970), Blackfoot wood carver from Montana * John S. Clarke (1885–1959), British lion tamer, politician, poet, newspaper editor and art expert *

Bryan Forbes Bryan Forbes Order of the British Empire, CBE (; born John Theobald Clarke; 22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as a "Renaissance man"Falk Q. . BAFTA. 17 October 2 ...

or John Theobald Clarke (1926–2013), English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist *

John Clarke (actor) John Clarke (April 14, 1931 – October 16, 2019) was an American television actor. Clarke is recognized for originating and portraying Mickey Horton on the NBC soap opera '' Days of Our Lives'' for 39 years, beginning with the debut of the p ...

(1931–2019), American soap opera actor from ''Days of Our Lives'' * John Clarke (poet) (1933–1992), American poet *

John Clem Clarke John Clem Clarke (June 6, 1937 – June 5, 2021) was an American painter and graphic artist who was active in the SoHo art scene during the 1970s. Early life Clarke was born in Bend, Oregon to Wilma (née Owen) and Eugene Clarke, both of whom ...

(1937–2021), American painter and graphic artist *

John Clarke (satirist) John Morrison Clarke (29 July 1948 – 9 April 2017) was a New Zealand comedian, writer and satirist who lived and worked in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a highly regarded actor and writer whose work appeared on the Australian Broadcas ...

(1948–2017), New Zealand/Australian satirist and actor *

John Cooper Clarke John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet and comedian who styled himself as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums and performed on stage with punk and post-punk ...

(born 1949), British performance poet, active since the late 1970s * John Clarke (museum curator) (1954–2020), British museum curator, expert in Ladakhi and Tibetan metalwork

Business

*John Clarke, whaler and one of the discoverers of

Jan Mayen Jan Mayen () is a Norway, Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population. It is long (southwest-northeast) and in area, partly covered by glaciers (an area of around the Beerenberg volcano). It has two parts: la ...

* John Clarke (businessman) (1773–1846), American businessman from Saratoga Springs, New York * John Clarke (fur trader) (1781–1852),

Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), originally the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading Into Hudson’s Bay, is a Canadian holding company of department stores, and the oldest corporation in North America. It was the owner of the ...

fur trader

Government and politics

Canada

* John Clarke (Upper Canada) (born 1780s- died 1862), merchant and politician in Upper Canada * John Fitzgerald Clarke (1827–1887), Ontario, Canada MPP * John M. Clarke (1854–1936), lumber merchant, contractor and political figure on Prince Edward Island * John Clarke (activist), Canadian political activist and founder of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

New Zealand

John Clarke (public servant) Sir Herbert John Te Kauru Clarke (born 16 April 1942) is a New Zealand public servant. Clarke was born on 16 April 1942 in Te Araroa. In 1969, he married Kathleen Lyndall Upton; they were to have two sons and one daughter. He was Race Relati ...

(born 1942), New Zealand public servant

United Kingdom

* John Clarke (fl. 1601), MP for Haslemere *

John Clarke (died 1675) John Clarke, DL, JP (died 6 May 1675) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1670 to 1675. Clarke was the son of Roger Clarke of Great Torrington, Devon and his wife Honor Hockin, daughter of Christopher H ...

, English landowner and politician *

Richard Cromwell Richard Cromwell (4 October 162612 July 1712) was an English statesman who served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1658 to 1659. He was the son of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. Following his father ...

or John Clarke (1626–1712), second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland *

John Clarke (Roundhead) John Clarke (fl. 1648 – November 1681), also known as John Clark, John Clerk, and John Clerke, was an English politician and Justice of the Peace who sat in the House of Commons from 1653 through 1660, and was a colonel in the Parliamentary ...

(fl. 1648–1681), English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1653 and 1660, and fought for Parliament in the English Civil War and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland *

John Creemer Clarke John Creemer Clarke (30 May 1821 – 11 February 1895) was an English merchant and cloth manufacturer and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1885. Early life Clarke was the son of Robert Clarke of St Giles in the ...

(1821–1895), British Member of Parliament

United States

John Hopkins Clarke John Hopkins Clarke (April 1, 1789 – November 23, 1870) was a United States senator from Rhode Island. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, he moved to Providence, where he studied under a private teacher. He graduated from Brown University in 1 ...

(1789–1870), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1847–1852 *

John Clarke (Michigan politician) John Clarke (July 29, 1797 – February 3, 1876), also spelled Clark, was an American businessman, farmer, and politician. He served in the Michigan Senate in the early years of Michigan's statehood, and later in the Michigan House of Representa ...

(1797–1876), American businessman, farmer, and politician *

John Jones Clarke John Jones Clarke (February 24, 1803 – November 25, 1887) was an American politician, who served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature and as the first Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts Roxbury () is a Neighborhoods in Boston, n ...

(1803–1887), American politician in the Massachusetts legislature * John C. Clarke (1831–1906), American politician in the Wisconsin legislature *

John Blades Clarke John Blades Clarke (April 14, 1833 – May 23, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. Early life and family John B. Clarke was born in Brooksville, Kentucky, on April 14, 1833.''Biographical Cyclopedia'', p. 124 He was the son of John and ...

(1833–1911), U.S. representative from Kentucky, 1875–1876 *

John Proctor Clarke John Proctor Clarke (April 23, 1856 – January 12, 1932) was a Presiding Justice, New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, an intermediate appellate court in New York State, and an attorney. Clarke was Presiding Justice for a ...

(1856–1932), judge in New York State *

John Hessin Clarke John Hessin Clarke (September 18, 1857 – March 22, 1945) was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1922. Early life Born in New Lisbon, Ohio, Clarke was the thir ...

(1857–1945), associate justice of the US Supreme Court * John D. Clarke (1873–1933), U.S. representative from New York, 1921–1924 and 1927–1934 *

John Clark (Georgia governor) John Clark (sometimes spelled Clarke) (February 28, 1766October 12, 1832) was an American planter, politician, and slaveholder. He was the List of Governors of Georgia, 31st Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, from 1819 t ...

(sometimes spelled Clarke; 1766–1832), Governor of Georgia from 1819 to 1823

Military

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John Clarke (British army officer) Sir John Clarke KCB (1787–1854) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army who became a General in the Spanish Army. One of the sons of the Rev. Marshal Clarke, a Church of Ireland clergyman, by his marriage to Elizabeth Hare, Clarke was ed ...

(1787–1854), officer in the British and Spanish armies * John Thomas Clarke (1868–1947), head of the Canadian military medical service * John Clarke (general), American general in the

Creek War The Creek War (also the Red Stick War or the Creek Civil War) was a regional conflict between opposing Native American factions, European powers, and the United States during the early 19th century. The Creek War began as a conflict within th ...

from Georgia

Religion

John Clarke (Baptist minister) John Clarke (October 1609 – 20 April 1676) was a New England English-born politician, physician, and General Baptist minister, co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, author of its influential charter, and a le ...

(1609–1676), co-founder of Rhode Island * John Clarke (dean of Salisbury) (1682–1757), dean of Salisbury Cathedral, mathematician and natural philosopher *

John Clarke (Congregationalist minister) __NOTOC__ John Clarke (1755–1798) was a minister of the First Church in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 18th century. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on April 13, 1755, to John Clarke and Sarah Clarke. He was educated at the Boston ...

(1755–1798), minister, First Church, Boston, Massachusetts * John Clarke (Baptist missionary) (1802–1879), author of ''Specimens of Dialects'' *

J. Richard Clarke John Richard Clarke (April 4, 1927 – June 29, 2022) was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1976 until his death. He served both in the church's presiding bishopric and the Presidency of th ...

(1927–2022), leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints *

John Clarke (bishop) John Robert Clarke (born 27 July 1938) is a retired bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. Clarke was educated at the University of Western Ontario and ordained in 1963. His first positions were as a curate at St Michael and All Angels', Toront ...

(born 1938), retired bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada * John Clarke (dean of Wells) (born 1952), Dean of Wells 2004–15

Science, medicine and academia

* John Clarke (provost) (died 1781), provost of Oriel College, Oxford * John Henry Clarke (1853–1931), English classical homeopath *

John Mason Clarke John Mason Clarke (April 15, 1857 – May 29, 1925) was an American teacher, geologist and paleontologist. __TOC__ Early career Born in Canandaigua, New York, the fifth of six children of Noah Turner Clarke and Laura Mason Merrill, he attended ...

(1857–1925), American paleontologist from New York * John L. Clarke (1905–1991), served as president of Ricks College *

John Henrik Clarke John Henrik Clarke (born John Henry Clark; January 1, 1915July 16, 1998) was an African-American historian, professor, prominent Afrocentrist, and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in acad ...

(1915–1998), self-taught scholar who became an authority on African history and an advocate for Black Studies *

John Frederick Clarke John Frederick Clarke FRS (1 May 1927 – 11 June 2013) was a professor, an aeronautical engineer, and a pilot. Biography After his schooling, he got training from Fleet Air Arm as a Navy Pilot and then from Royal Air force at Lossiemouth. ...

(1927–2013), English aeronautical engineer *

John Clarke (physician, 1582–1653) John Clarke (–1653) was an English physician. Life John Clarke was born in 1582 at Brooke Hall, near Wethersfield, Essex, Wethersfield in Essex, where his family had long been seated. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and ...

, English physician *

John Clarke (physician, 1761–1815) John Clarke (1761–1815) was an English physician and obstetrician. Life John Clarke, the son of a surgeon of the same name, was born at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, in 1761. He was educated at St. Paul's School, where he was admit ...

, English physician and obstetrician *

John Clarke (physicist) John Clarke (born in 1942) is a British physicist and a Professor of Experimental Physics at University of California at Berkeley. Clarke received BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge namely Christ's College, Cambridge an ...

(born 1942), English physicist at University of California at Berkeley * John Clarke (mountaineer) (1945–2003), Canadian mountaineer, explorer and wilderness educator * John R. Clarke (scientist) (born 1945), serves as Scientific Director at the United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit *

John R. Clarke (historian) John R. Clarke is an American art historian, professor, and author. He is Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor of Fine Arts in University of Texas at Austin, teaching in the Department of Art and Art History. Clarke (Ph.D. Yale, 1973), joined th ...

, Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin * John T. Clarke, (born 1952), American astronomer

Sports

John Erskine Clarke John Erskine Clarke (1827–1920) was a British clergyman who issued the first parish magazine. He established several other religious publications and was responsible for founding churches schools and hospitals in Battersea. He also competed a ...

(1827–1920), British rower and clergyman who founded the first parish magazine *

John Clarke (Australian cricketer) John Clarke (1829 – 29 February 1872) was an Australian cricketer. He played three first-class cricket, first-class matches for New South Wales cricket team, New South Wales between 1859/60 and 1862/63. See also * List of New South Wale ...

(1829–1872) * John Clarke (Scottish footballer) (fl. 1890s), footballer who played for Bury, Blackpool and Luton Town *

John Clarke (English footballer) John Clarke was an English professional footballer who played as a centre-forward in the Football League for Grimsby Town Grimsby Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshir ...

(fl. 1910s–1920s), English football forward * John Clarke (rugby league) (1913–1973), Australian rugby league player * John Clarke (cricketer, born 1948), English cricketer * John Clarke (rugby union) (born 1975), New Zealand-born Samoan rugby union player *

John Clarke (Gaelic footballer) John Clarke is a Gaelic footballer from County Down, Northern Ireland. He plays for the Down senior inter-county football team and with his local club St Johns GAA. Clarke made 108 appearances for Down between League and Championship. He star ...

(fl. 2000s), Gaelic footballer for Down *

John Clarke (sailor) John Clarke (19 October 1934 – 22 May 2022) was a Canadian sailor. He competed in the Finn event at the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially branded as ...

(1934–2022), Canadian Olympic sailor * John Clarke (hurler) (1899–1962), Irish hurler * John Clarke (footballer, born 2004), English footballer

Other

* John Clarke (bushranger) (c. 1846–1867), Australian bushranger * John N. Clarke (born 1972), United Nations official