John Collins may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

John Collins (poet) John Collins (1742 – 2 May 1808) was an English entertainer and poet from Birmingham. Life He was born at Bath, and from some lines in his own collection of poems, entitled 'Scripscrapologia,' he would seem to have been a tailor's son. He was ...

(1742–1808), English orator, singer, and poet * John Churton Collins (1848–1908), English literary critic *

John H. Collins (director) John H. Collins (December 31, 1889 – October 31, 1918) was an American writer and director of the silent film era. He married film actress Viola Dana. His career was cut short when he died at the age of 28 due to the 1918 influenza epidemic. Du ...

(1889–1918), American director and screenwriter *

John Collins (jazz guitarist) John Elbert Collins (September 20, 1913 – October 4, 2001) was an American jazz guitarist who was a member of the Nat King Cole trio. Career A native of Alabama, Collins grew up in Chicago. When he was fourteen, her performed with his moth ...

(1913–2001), American jazz guitarist * John Collins (cartoonist) (1917–2007), Canadian cartoonist * Johnny Collins (1938–2009), British folksinger *

John D. Collins John Christopher Dixon (born 2 December 1942), billed as John D. Collins, is a British actor and narrator, perhaps best known for appearing in the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo!'' in which he played Flt. Lt. Fairfax, a stranded British airman in o ...

(born 1942), British actor known for ''Allo 'Allo'' * John Collins (theatre director) (born 1969), American experimental theater director * John Collins (Australian musician) (born 1971), bass guitarist for Powderfinger *

John Collins (musician/researcher) John Collins (born 1944) is a UK-born guitarist, harmonica player and percussionist who first went to Ghana as a child in 1952 for a brief period and later became involved in the West African music scene after returning to Ghana in 1969.

, musician in the West African music scene *

John Collins (Canadian musician) John Edward Collins is a member of The New Pornographers, Destroyer, and The Evaporators. He plays the bass, guitar, synthesizer, ebow and sings. He also acted as a producer, mixer, engineer, and multi-instrumentalist on Tegan and Sara Te ...

, musician with the New Pornographers and the Smugglers

Military

* John Collins (Bengal Army officer) (died 1807), British colonel in the Bengal Native Infantry * John Collins (VC) (1880–1951), English sergeant who was awarded a Victoria Cross *

John Augustine Collins Vice-Admiral Sir John Augustine Collins, (7 January 1899 – 3 September 1989) was a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) officer who served in both World Wars, and who eventually rose to become a vice admiral and Chief of Naval Staff. Collins was one ...

(1899–1989), Royal Australian Navy officer

Politics

American politicians

John Collins (Continental Congress) John Collins (June 8, 1717March 4, 1795), was an American politician and a Founding Father of the United States who, as a member of the Continental Congress, signed the Articles of Confederation. He was the third governor of the U.S. state of R ...

(1717–1795), Rhode Island delegate to Continental Congress * John Collins (governor) (1776–1822), American manufacturer and Governor of Delaware * John Collins (Seattle politician) (1835–1903), American politician and businessman * John F. Collins (mayor of Providence) (1872–1962), mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, 1939–1941 *

John F. Collins John Frederick Collins (July 20, 1919 – November 23, 1995) was an American lawyer who served as the mayor of Boston from 1960 to 1968. Collins was a lawyer who served in the Massachusetts Legislature from 1947 to 1955. He and his children cau ...

(1919–1995), mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, 1960–1968

Other politicians

John Collins (Andover MP) John Collins (11 July 1624 – 1711) was an English academic and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1660 and 1689. Collins was the son of the theologian Samuel Collins. He was a King's Scholar at Eton College and ...

(1624–1711), English academic and politician * John Collins (Surveyor General) (died 1795), Surveyor General of Provincial Canada *

John Collins (Canadian politician) Doctor John Fitzgerald Collins (June 1, 1922 - April 23, 2016) was a physician and politician in Newfoundland. He represented St. John's South from 1975 to 1989 in the Newfoundland House of Assembly. He was born in St. John's and was educated a ...

(1922–2016), physician and politician in Newfoundland, Canada *

John Henry Collins John Henry Collins (3 March 1880 – 12 January 1952) was a nationalist politician and solicitor in Northern Ireland. Born in Newry, he was educated at the Christian Brothers School, Newry, and Queen's University Belfast. At the 1925 general ...

(1880–1952), nationalist politician and solicitor in Northern Ireland

Religion

* John Collins (Independent minister) (c. 1632–1687), English Independent minister *

John J. Collins (bishop) John J. Collins, S.J. (November 15, 1856 – November 30, 1934) was an American-born bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as the Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica from 1907 to 1918. He was also president of Fordham University 1904–1906. Biography ...

(1856–1934), American-born Catholic bishop in Jamaica *

John Collins (priest) Lewis John Collins (23 March 1905 – 31 December 1982) was an Anglican priest who was active in several radical political movements in the United Kingdom. Life Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Collin ...

(1905–1982), radical Anglican canon at St Paul's Cathedral *

John A. Collins (chaplain) John A. Collins (September 17, 1931 – May 7, 2003) was Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force. Biography Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1931, Collins was an ordained Roman Catholic priest in the Redemptorist Order. Collins died ...

(1931–2003), Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force *

John Collins (nuncio) John Collins, S.M.A. (21 August 1889 – 3 March 1961) was an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church who worked as a missionary in Liberia for 47 years. He became a bishop in Liberia in 1934 and the diplomatic representative of the Holy See there f ...

(1889–1961), Irish bishop and diplomat in Liberia

Sports

Association football

* John Collins (footballer, born 1942), English professional footballer * John Collins (footballer, born 1945), English professional footballer and manager *

John Collins (footballer, born 1949) John Lindsay Collins (21 January 1949 – 14 April 2020) was a Welsh professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Portsmouth, Dallas Tornado, Halifax Town, Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley, Kidderminster Harriers and represented ...

(1949–2020), Welsh professional footballer * John Collins (footballer, born 1968), Scottish international footballer and manager

Other sports

* John Collins (New Zealand cricketer) (1868–1943), New Zealand cricketer *

Shano Collins John Francis "Shano" Collins (December 4, 1885 – September 10, 1955) was an American right fielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox. Early life Collins was born on December 4, 1885 in ...

(John Francis Collins, 1885–1955), American baseball player *

John Collins (Fijian cricketer) John Cyril Collins was a Fijian cricketer. He played six first-class matches for the Fiji national cricket team on a tour of New Zealand in 1895. He scored Fiji's only century of the tour, an innings of 128 not out In cricket, a batter is n ...

(fl. 1895), Fijian cricketer * John W. Collins (1912–2001), American chess player * John Collins (sports executive) (born 1961), COO of the National Hockey League *

John Collins (rower) John E. Collins (born 24 January 1989) is a British rower. He competed at the Olympics in the Double Sculls event at both the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Collins won a silver medal at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Flo ...

(born 1989), British rower *

John Collins (basketball) John Martin Collins III (born September 23, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Collins was sele ...

(born 1997), American basketball player in the NBA *

Jon Collins Jon Collins is a former American basketball player, best known for his collegiate career at Eastern Illinois University between 1982–83 and 1985–86. At the time of his graduation, Collins scored a then-school record 1,702 points, was one of ...

(born 1960s), American basketball player in the 1980s

Other people

John Collins (mathematician) John Collins FRS (25 March 1625 – 10 November 1683) was an English mathematician. He is most known for his extensive correspondence with leading scientists and mathematicians such as Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton, ...

(1625–1683), English mathematician *

John Baptist Collins John Baptist Collins (died July 30, 1794) was a would-be French pirate who, with Emanuel Furtado and Augustus Palacha, attempted to seize control of the brigantine ''Betty'' bound for Boston, Massachusetts. Born in France, Collins went to sea ...

(died 1794), French pirate *

John Collins (merchant) John Collins (died April 15, 1795) was a merchant when he arrived in the Quebec (formerly the French Colony of New France) in 1759. He was appointed as Deputy Surveyor to the Office of Surveyor General of lands by Major Samuel Holland. The Office w ...

(died 1795), merchant in Quebec * John A. Collins (1810–1900), American abolitionist and utopian from Skaneateles Community *

John Collins Covell John Collins Covell (December 19, 1823 – June 4, 1887) was a 19th-century American educator and school administrator specializing in deaf education in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. Born in 1823 in Rhode Island, Covell was t ...

(1823–1887), American educator and school administrator * John S. Collins (1837–1928), American Quaker farmer who moved to southern Florida *

John H. Collins (academic) John H. Collins (November 14, 1902 – January 8, 1981) was an American classical scholar. Born in Anaconda, Montana, he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois and Cornell University, and in 1952 received h ...

(1902–1981), American classical scholar * John Collins (British businessman) (born 1941), former head of National Power *

John Joseph Collins John Collins (born 23 May 1944) is an Irish barrister called to the Bar in 1967. He was called to the English Bar in the Middle Temple in 1972. He was called to the Bar of New South Wales, Sydney in 1989. he has participated in prominent criminal ...

(born 1944), Irish barrister *

John J. Collins John J. Collins (born 1946) is the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. He is noted for his research in the Hebrew Bible, as well as the apocryphal works of the Second Temple period including the ...

(born 1946), Irish biblical studies scholar *

John Norman Collins The Michigan Murders was a series of highly publicized killings of young women committed between 1967 and 1969 in the Ann Arbor/ Ypsilanti area of Southeastern Michigan by an individual known as the Ypsilanti Ripper, the Michigan Murderer, and th ...

(born 1947), perpetrator of the Michigan murders *

John C. Collins John Clements Collins (born 1949) is a British-born American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University. He attended the University of Cambridge where he obtained a B.A. in mathematics 1971 and a Ph.D. in the ...

(born 1949), American theoretical particle physicist *

John A. Collins (abolitionist) John Anderson Collins (1810–1879) was an American abolitionist. Biography Collins was born in Manchester, Vermont. He attended Middlebury College, joined the Andover Theological Seminary, and eventually left both to work in the anti-slavery mo ...

(1810–1879), American abolitionist *

C. John Collins C. John "Jack" Collins is an American academic and professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary, where he has served since 1993. He received a BS and MS (computer science and systems engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute ...

, American academic and professor of Old Testament

Other uses

* John Collins (cocktail), an alcoholic beverage