John Sumner may refer to:
Entertainment
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John Sumner (actor) (died 1649), English theatre actor during the Caroline era
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J. D. Sumner (1924–1998), American gospel singer and songwriter
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John Sumner (director)
John Hackman Sumner, (27 May 192424 May 2013) was an English-born director and producer and theatre impresario, who was the founder and artistic director of Melbourne Theatre Company in Australia, gathering a group of later internationally fam ...
(1924–2013), English-born Australian artistic director and founder of Melbourne Theatre Company
Religion
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John Sumner (priest) (died 1772), Canon of Windsor and Headmaster of Eton College
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John Bird Sumner
John Bird Sumner (25 February 1780 – 6 September 1862) was a bishop in the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury.
Early life
John Bird Sumner was born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, on 25 February 1780. He was the eldest son of the Re ...
(1780–1862), bishop in the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury
Other
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John Robert Sumner (1850–1933), amateur footballer and 1873 FA Cup finalist
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John Sumner (tea merchant)
Sir John Sumner (25 February 1856 – 11 May 1934) was a British tea merchant who founded the " Typhoo Tipps" tea brand.
Born the elder son of John Sumner, a Birmingham grocer, druggist and chemist, Sumner shared with his brother the business, ...
(1856–1934)
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John S. Sumner
John Saxton Sumner (September 22, 1876 - June 20, 1971) was an American anti-vice activist who headed the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (NYSSV), a New York state censorship body empowered to recommend obscenity cases to the appropri ...
(1876–1971), headed the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
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John Sumner (climber)
John (Fritz) Sumner (17 March 1935, in Didsbury – 2004) was the pre-eminent exploratory climber in his chosen domain of Mid Wales, climbing cutting-edge routes on the remote crags and cliff-faces south of southern Snowdonia starting in the mid ...
(1936–2004), British climber
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Jack Sumner
John Colton Sumner (1840–1907) was an American explorer who took part in the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869. An experienced marksman and boatman, he was chosen by John Wesley Powell to lead the first boat of the expedition. He eventually ...
(1840–1907), American explorer
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