John Collins, or Jon Collins, may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

John Collins (painter) John Collins (1725?–1759?) was a British landscape painter. Biography Collins was from an early age patronised by the aristocracy. At the expense of the Duke of Ancaster, the Marquis of Exeter, and others, he travelled in Italy and studied his ...

, 18th century British landscape painter * John Collins (poet) (1742–1808), English orator, singer, and poet *

John Churton Collins John Churton Collins (26 March 1848 – 15 September 1908) was a British literary critic. Biography Churton Collins was born at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. From King Edward's School, Birmingham, he went to Balliol College, ...

(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 mother, ...

(1913–2001), American jazz guitarist * John Collins (cartoonist) (1917–2007), Canadian cartoonist *

Johnny Collins Johnny Collins (10 May 1938 – 6 July 2009) was an English folk singer based in London, England, specializing in traditional maritime music and sea shanties. Biography Collins was born in Norfolk, England and adopted by a railway worker an ...

(1938–2009), British folksinger * John D. Collins (born 1942), British actor known for ''Allo 'Allo'' *

John Collins (theatre director) John Collins (born October 17, 1969 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American experimental theatre director and designer. He is the founder and artistic director of Elevator Repair Service (ERS) and has directed or co-directed all of its pro ...

(born 1969), American experimental theater director *

John Collins (Australian musician) John Andrew Collins (born 27 April 1970) is the mainstay bass guitarist for Australian rock band Powderfinger since 1989. Note: n-lineversion established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 editi ...

(born 1971), bass guitarist for Powderfinger * John Collins (musician/researcher), musician in the West African music scene

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) John Collins (March 1, 1776 – April 16, 1822) was an American manufacturer and politician from Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party and served as Governor of Delaware from 1821 until his death in 1822. Early life and fa ...

(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 caug ...

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

Other politicians

* John Collins (died 1597), MP for Hythe * John Collins (Andover MP) (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 ...

(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 el ...

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

Religion

John Collins (Independent minister) John Collins (c. 1632–1687) was an English Independent minister. Biography John Collins was born in England, but brought up in New England, where his father Edward became a deacon of the congregational church at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He gr ...

(c. 1632–1687), English Independent minister * John J. Collins (bishop) (1856–1934), American-born Catholic bishop in Jamaica *

John Collins (priest) Lewis John Collins (23 March 1905 – 31 December 1982) was an English Anglican priest who was active in several radical political movements in the United Kingdom. Life Lewis John Collins was born on 23 March 1905 at Hawkhurst, Kent, England. ...

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

John A. Collins (chaplain) John A. Collins, CSsR (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. Colli ...

(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 *

John T. C. B. Collins John Theodore Cameron Bucke Collins (25 August 1925 – 8 December 2022) was a British Anglican priest who was instrumental in the charismatic revival movement in the Church of England. Life Previously from a high church background, Collins was c ...

(1925–2022), Anglican priest and leading figure in the charismatic movement

Sports

Association football

John Collins (footballer, born 1942) John William Bashley Collins (born 10 August 1942) is an English former footballer who scored 108 goals from 417 appearances in the Football League in the 1960s and early 1970s, playing as an inside left for Queens Park Rangers, Oldham Athletic ...

, English professional footballer *

John Collins (footballer, born 1945) John Joseph Collins (born 30 January 1945) is an English former footballer and manager. Collins signed for Blackburn Rovers in 1963, but mainly turned out for the club's junior team. In 1964, he signed for Stockport County, where he struck up ...

, English professional footballer and manager * John Collins (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2020), Welsh professional footballer *

John Collins (footballer, born 1968) John Angus Paul Collins (born 31 January 1968) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He played for Hibernian, Celtic, AS Monaco, Everton and Fulham in a 19-year career. Collins also represen ...

, 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 Bos ...

(John Francis Collins, 1885–1955), American baseball player * John Collins (Fijian cricketer) (fl. 1895), Fijian cricketer * John W. Collins (1912–2001), American chess player * John Collins (rugby union, born 1931) (1931–2017), Welsh rugby union player * John Collins (rugby union, born 1939) (1939–2007), New Zealand rugby union player *

John Collins (sports executive) John Collins is an American professional sports executive, who has served as operating partner of thNY Islanderssince June 2023. He is also chief executive officer of On Location Experiences, an experiential hospitality business and the official ...

(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, Fl ...

(born 1989), British rower *

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

(born 1997), American basketball player in the NBA * Jon Collins (born 1960s), American basketball player in the 1980s * Johnny Collins (sprinter), winner of the 2000

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* John Collins (pole vaulter), 1922 All-American pole vaulter for the

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Other people

John Collins (mathematician) John Collins Fellow of the Royal Society, 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, Gottfr ...

(1625–1683), English mathematician * John Baptist Collins (died 1794), French pirate * John Collins (merchant) (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 and Cornell University, and in 1952 received his doctorate in classical history from Goeth ...

(1902–1981), American classical scholar * John Collins (British businessman) (born 1941), former head of National Power * John Joseph Collins (born 1944), Irish barrister *

John J. Collins John Joseph Collins (born 1946, County Tipperary) is an Irish-born American biblical scholar, the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. He is noted for his research in the Hebrew Bible, as wel ...

(born 1946), Irish biblical studies scholar * John Norman Collins (born 1947), perpetrator of the Michigan murders * John C. Collins (born 1949), American theoretical particle physicist * John A. Collins (abolitionist) (1810–1879), American abolitionist * C. John Collins, American academic and professor of Old Testament * Jon Collins (educator), American educator

Other uses

* John Collins (cocktail), an alcoholic beverage