John Gray may refer to:

Politics and government

John Gray (North Carolina politician) John Gray may refer to: Politics and government *John Gray (North Carolina politician), American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly of 1777 *John Gray, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1800– ...

, American politician, member of the

North Carolina General Assembly of 1777 The North Carolina General Assembly of 1777 met in two sessions in New Bern, North Carolina, from April 7 to May 9, 1777, and from November 15 to December 24, 1777. This was the first North Carolina legislature elected after the last provinci ...

*John Gray, American politician, member of the

Virginia House of Delegates The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two houses of the Virginia General Assembly, the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years; unlike most states, these elections take place during odd-numbe ...

, 1800–1821 * John C. Gray (1783–1823), United States representative from Virginia * John Gray (socialist) (1799–1883), English economic pamphleteer, utopian socialist, and exponent of Ricardian economics *

John Gray (New Zealand politician) John Gray (11 November 1801 – 7 April 1859) was a soldier and a New Zealand politician. He came to New Zealand in 1847 in charge of a section of the Royal New Zealand Fencible Corps. He successfully stood for election to the 1st New Zealand P ...

(1801–1859), member of the New Zealand Parliament *

John Hamilton Gray (Prince Edward Island politician) John Hamilton Gray (June 14, 1811 – August 13, 1887) was Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1863 – 1865 and one of the Fathers of Confederation. Gray began his political career in 1862 when he was elected to the provincial assembly as a ...

(1811–1887), Canadian politician, Premier of Prince Edward Island *

John Hamilton Gray (New Brunswick politician) John Hamilton Gray may refer to two 19th-century Canadian politicians: * John Hamilton Gray (Prince Edward Island politician) (1811–1887), Premier of Prince Edward Island * John Hamilton Gray (New Brunswick politician) (1814–1889), Premier of N ...

(1814–1889), Canadian politician, Premier of New Brunswick *Sir

John Gray (Irish politician) Sir John Gray JP (13 July 1815 – 9 April 1875), sometimes spelt John Grey, was an Irish physician, surgeon, newspaper proprietor, journalist and politician. Gray was active both in municipal and national government for much of his life, and ...

(1815–1875), Irish Member of Parliament for Kilkenny, 1865–1875 * John Gray (Wisconsin politician, born 1817) (1817–?), American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly * John S. Gray (Idaho politician) (1833–1891), American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Idaho * John Gray (Ontario politician) (1837–1917), Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario *

John Gray (New South Wales politician) John Proctor Gray (1 December 1840 – 20 April 1914) was an English-born Australian politician. Born in York, he was educated in England and became a business manager. In 1889 he migrated to Australia, becoming a businessman in Sydney. He u ...

(1841–1914), Australian senator * John Gray (Victorian politician, died 1925) (c. 1853–1925), Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly * John H. Gray (Illinois politician) (1855–?), Illinois state representative * John Gray (North Dakota politician) (1877–1952), American politician, North Dakota State Treasurer * John Austin Gray (1892–1939), Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly * John R. Gray (politician) (1925−1996), American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly *Sir

John Gray (diplomat) Sir John Walton David Gray (1 October 1936 – 1 September 2003) was a senior British diplomat. In 1987, as the British ambassador to Beirut, Gray unsuccessfully attempted to dissuade Terry Waite from re-entering Beirut without proper protection ...

(1936–2003), British diplomat *

John Gray (Oshawa politician) John Gray (born March 20, 1959) is a politician in Ontario, Canada, who is currently the Councillor for Ward 5 in the City of Oshawa. He was formerly a councillor for the city of Oshawa and the Regional Municipality of Durham from 1994 to 2003. Gra ...

(born 1959), former mayor of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Law and crime

* John Gray (barrister) (1807–1875), British barrister and legal writer *

John Chipman Gray John Chipman Gray (July 14, 1839February 25, 1915) was an American scholar of property law and professor at Harvard Law School. He also founded the law firm Ropes & Gray, with law partner John Codman Ropes. He was half-brother to U.S. Supreme ...

(1839–1915), American law professor and legal scholar *

John Clinton Gray John Clinton Gray (December 4, 1843 – June 28, 1915) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Early life Gray was born on December 4, 1843, in New York City. He was the son of wholesale dry goods dealer John Alexander Clinton ...

(1843–1915), American judge in New York *

John Joe Gray John Joe Gray (born ) is an American who identified as a sovereign citizen and was a fugitive A fugitive or runaway is a person who is fleeing from custody, whether it be from jail, a government arrest, government or non-government questi ...

(1950–2023), fugitive from the law in Trinidad, Texas, United States

Military

John Gray (American Revolutionary War soldier) John Gray (January 6, 1764 – March 29, 1868) was the last verified veteran of the American Revolutionary War. He was confirmed a veteran of the war and awarded a pension of $500 semi-annually by House Bill 1044 (passed by Congress February 22, ...

(1764–1868), U.S. soldier, said to be the longest surviving veteran of the war *

John Gray (Medal of Honor) John Gray may refer to: Politics and government *John Gray (North Carolina politician), American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly of 1777 *John Gray, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1800� ...

(1836–1887), Medal of Honor recipient in the American Civil War *Sir

John Gray (Royal Navy officer) Vice-Admiral Sir John Michael Dudgeon Gray (13 June 1913 – February 1998) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America Station. Naval career Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmout ...

(1913–1998), British admiral * John P. Gray (naval officer) (1914–1942), United States Navy officer, pilot, and Navy Cross recipient

Arts and humanities

Literature and music

John Gray (Canadian author) John Anthony Morgan Gray (April 28, 1937 – September 23, 2020) was a Canadian journalist and author whose work included ''Paul Martin: The Power of Ambition'', a biography with an emphasis on Martin's lifelong quest to be prime minister. A jou ...

(1937–2020), Canadian journalist and biographer *

John Gray (American author) John Gray (born December 28, 1951) is an American relationship counselor, lecturer, and author. In 1969, he began a nine-year association with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi before beginning his career as an author and personal relationship counselor. In ...

(born 1951), American author best known for his book ''Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus'' *

John Gray (composer) John Gray may refer to: Politics and government *John Gray (North Carolina politician), American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly of 1777 *John Gray, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1800� ...

, Australian film composer, writer of the score for 2006 film '' The Bet'' * John Gray (mythologist) (1913–2000), Scottish author of books on history and mythology *

John Gray (poet) Reverend Canon, Very Reverend Canon John Gray (2 March 1866 – 14 June 1934) was an English poet and Catholic priest whose works include ''Silverpoints'', ''The Long Road'' and ''Park: A Fantastic Story''. It has often been suggested that h ...

(1866–1934), English poet and Catholic priest *

John MacLachlan Gray John MacLachlan Gray, Order of Canada, OC (born John Howard Gray, 1946) is a Canadian writer-composer-performer for stage, TV, film, radio and print. He is best known for his stage musicals and for his two seasons as a Satire, satirist on Canadi ...

(born 1946), Canadian writer, playwright and composer of musicals

Visual art

*John Gray (1811–1891), Scottish engineer and philanthropist for whom the

Gray's School of Art ''Gray's Anatomy'' is a reference book of human anatomy written by Henry Gray, illustrated by Henry Vandyke Carter and first published in London in 1858. It has had multiple revised editions, and the current edition, the 42nd (October 202 ...

is named *

John Miller Gray John Miller Gray (1850–1894) was a Scottish art critic and the first curator of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. History John Miller Gray was born on 19 July 1850 in Edinburgh, his father a shawl manufacturer who was bankrupted in 1857, ...

(1850–1894), Scottish art critic and curator

Other arts and humanities

John Gray (museum administrator) John Gray is an American businessman and museum administrator. He was the director of the National Museum of American History until 2018 and a former president and CEO of the Autry National Center. Career Gray worked in commercial banking for 2 ...

, American museum director *

John Gray (philosopher) John Nicholas Gray (born 17 April 1948) is an English political philosopher and author with interests in analytic philosophy, the history of ideas, and philosophical pessimism. He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the L ...

(born 1948), British philosopher

Religion

* John Gray (Episcopalian minister) (1646–1717), minister of the Episcopal Church of Scotland * John Gray (Scottish bishop) (1817–1872), Roman Catholic vicar apostolic for Western Scotland * John Gray (archdeacon of Hong Kong) (1823–1890), Archdeacon of Hong Kong *

John R. Gray (minister) John Rodger Gray, (9 January 1913 – 9 August 1984) was a Scottish minister serving in Dunblane Cathedral who was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1977. Life He was born on 9 January 1913 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshi ...

(1913–1984), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1977 * John Gray (New Zealand bishop) (1947–2015), New Zealand Anglican bishop

Science, medicine and technology

* John Gray (mathematician) (died 1769), Scottish mathematician, author and Rector of Aberdeen University *

John Edward Gray John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The same is used for a z ...

(1800–1875), British zoologist *

John Franklin Gray John Franklin Gray (September 23, 1804 – June 9, 1882) was an American educator and physician, a pioneer in the field of homoeopathy and one of its first practitioners in the United States. He is also recognized as an important medical reforme ...

(1804–1881), American educator and physician, first practitioner of homeopathy in the United States *

John Gray (locomotive engineer) John Gray was an early English steam locomotive engineer who introduced several innovations in locomotive design during the 1830s and 1840s. John Gray's origins were thought to be unknown but he appears to have originated from Newcastle. John Gr ...

, locomotive superintendent of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway, 1845–1847 * John P. Gray (psychiatrist) (1825–1886), American psychiatrist *

John McFarlane Gray John McFarlane Gray (7 April 1831 – 14 January 1908), also known as J. Macfarlane Gray, was a Scottish engineer who invented a portable steam riveting machine and a steam steering mechanism for Isambard Kingdom Brunel's famous ''SS Great Easte ...

(1831–1908), Scottish engineer * John H. Gray (economist) (1859–1946), American economist *Sir John Gray (physiologist) (1918–2011), British physiologist * John Stuart Gray (1941–2007), British-Norwegian marine biologist

Business

* John Gray (Canadian banker) (c. 1755–1829), president of the Bank of Montreal *John Gray, British founder of

Gray and Davison Gray & Davison was a large-scale manufacturer of church and cathedral pipe organ The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a Musical keyboar ...

pipe organ builders in 1841 *

John S. Gray (businessman) John Simpson Gray (October 5, 1841 – July 6, 1906) was a candymaker, business man, and banker from Detroit. He was also an original investor in and the first president of the Ford Motor Company. Early life John S. Gray was born in Edinburg ...

(1841–1906), Scottish-born American candymaker, businessman, and first president of Ford Motor Company *

John Gray (British banker) John Malcolm Gray, CBE (28 July 1934 - 19 November 2009) was a Scottish businessman and the former chairman and chief executive of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hong Kong from 1993 until his retirement in 1996. He was the third ge ...

(1934–2009), British banker

Sport

* John Gray (Australian footballer) (1888–1947), Australian rules footballer for Melbourne University FC and medical doctor * John Gray (runner, born 1894) (1894–1942), American Olympic runner * John Gray (boxer) (1906–1964), Filipino Olympic boxer * Johnny Gray (baseball) (1926–2014), American baseball pitcher * John Gray (English sportsman) (born 1948), English cricketer, and rugby union and rugby league footballer * John Gray (ice hockey) (born 1949), Canadian ice hockey player *

Johnny Gray John Lee Gray Jr. (born June 19, 1960) is a retired American world-class 800 meter runner from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s and the holder of the 600m world best. A four-time Olympian (1984-1996), in 1985 he set the United States records in t ...

(born 1960), American runner

Broadcasting and entertainment

(born 1946), Canadian playwright, composer, and performer *

John Gray (director) John Gray is an American writer, director, producer. He is the creator of the CBS television series ''Ghost Whisperer'' starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. He has written and directed feature movies as well. Gray has written and directed many movi ...

, American writer and director * John J. Gray, American television writer and producer *John Gray, television news anchor on

WXXA-TV WXXA-TV (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Albany, New York, United States, serving the Capital District as an affiliate of the Fox network. Owned by Mission Broadcasting, it is operated under a shared services agreement (SSA) b ...

in Albany, New York

Ships

* MV ''John Hamilton Gray'', Canadian icebreaking railway, vehicle, and passenger ferry * USS ''John P. Gray'' (APD-74), United States Navy high-speed transport

Other

* John Gray (master mariner) (1819–1872), British captain of the SS ''Great Britain'' * John Gray (nightwatchman) (died 1858), owner of Greyfriars Bobby *

John E. Gray John Ellis Gray (March 3, 1907 – March 20, 2002) was an educational administrator, businessman and university president at Lamar University. In 1972, Gray, along with Otho Plummer, H. C. Galloway, and Dr. Charles P. Turco founded the Lamar U ...

(1907–2002), American educational administrator and businessman, president of Lamar University * John Hunter Gray (1934–2019), American sociologist and civil rights activist