John Kirk may refer to:
Military
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John Kirk (soldier) (1827–1865), awarded the Victoria Cross
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John Kirk (Medal of Honor), American Indian Wars soldier on
List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Indian Wars
The Indian Wars is the name used by the United States government to describe a series of military conflicts between the United States and Indigenous peoples from 1776 to 1898.
Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor was created during the American ...
Sportspeople
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John Kirk (footballer, born 1922) (1922–?), English football winger with Darlington
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John Kirk (footballer, born 1930), Canadian football inside forward with Accrington Stanley
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John Kirk (cyclist) (1890–1951), British Olympic cyclist
John Kirk (1934-2021)
Professional rugby player
England Rugby team captain.
Politicians
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John Kirk (New Zealand politician)
Norman John Kirk (27 June 1947 – before 4 March 2024) was a New Zealand politician from the Labour Party who served as the Member of Parliament for Sydenham in the South Island. He was the son of Norman Kirk, who served as Prime Minister fro ...
(born 1947)
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John Angus Kirk (1837–1910), Canadian politician and farmer
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John P. Kirk (1867–1952), American politician, mayor of Ypsilanti, Michigan
Others
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John Kirk (antiquarian)
John Kirk D.D. (1760–1851) was an English Roman Catholic priest and antiquary.
Life
He was son of William Kirk and his wife, Mary Fielding. He was born at Ruckley, near Acton Burnell, Shropshire, on 13 April 1760. At ten years of age he was ...
(1760–1851), Roman Catholic priest and antiquary
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John Kirk (explorer)
Sir John Kirk (19 December 1832 – 15 January 1922) was a British physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and a British administrator in Zanzibar, East Africa, where he was instrumental in ending the slave trade in that ...
(1832–1922), worked alongside David Livingstone in southern Africa
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John Foster Kirk (1824–1904), American historian, journalist, educator and bibliographer
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John Kirk (archaeologist)
Dr John Lamplugh Kirk Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons, MRCS (30 April 186926 February 1940) was a British medical doctor, amateur archaeologist and founder of York Castle Museum in York, North Yorkshire.
Personal life
He was born i ...
(1869–1940), British twentieth-century archaeologist
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