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John Watts (1715–1789) John Watts (April 16, 1715 – August 15, 1789) was a Scottish-American businessman and landowner. Early life Watts was born on April 16, 1715, in New York City. He was the son and fourth child born to Mary (née Nicoll) Watts (b. 1689) and Rob ...

, Member of the New York General Assembly *

John Watts (New York politician) John Watts Jr. (August 27, 1749 – September 3, 1836) was an American lawyer and politician from New York City who represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Life John Watts was born on August 27, 1749, in New York City. He was ...

(1749–1836), U.S. Representative from New York ** Statue of John Watts, an 1893 outdoor bronze sculpture *

John Watts (Australian politician) John Watts (27 February 1821 – 18 November 1902) was a member of both the Queensland Legislative Assembly and the Queensland Legislative Council. Watts managed the Eton Vale station with Arthur Hodgson and later took it over. During his time ...

(1821–1902), Queensland politician *

John Watts (British politician) John Arthur Watts (19 April 1947 – 8 September 2016) was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1983 and 1997. Watts was educated at Bishopshalt Grammar School, Hillingdon, and Gonville ...

(1947–2016), British MP from Slough * John Watts (Stoke politician) (1864–1951), British political activist and mine rescue hero * John Watts (Grenadian politician) (1921/22-2015), Grenada MP * John C. Watts (1902–1971), U.S. Representative from Kentucky *

John Sebrie Watts John Sebrie Watts (January 19, 1816 – June 11, 1876) was an American attorney, jurist, and politician who held office in the state of Indiana and in the territory of New Mexico. Early life and education Watts was born in Boone County, Kentucky ...

(1816–1876), U.S. House Delegate from New Mexico Territory

Sports

John Watts (athlete) John Thomas Watts (born 23 April 1939) is a British former athlete who competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Biography Watts began his athletics career with Holbeach AC but after joining the Royal Navy switched to Blackheath Harriers. Watts ...

(born 1939), British Olympic athlete *

John Watts (jockey) John Watts (1861–1902) was a British flat-race jockey. In a career that lasted from 1880 until 1900 he rode the winners of 19 Classics. He was noted for his quiet and unspectacular style and undemonstrative personality. On his retirement from ...

(1860–1902), British jockey * Johnny Watts (English footballer) (1931–2006), English football player for Birmingham City F.C. * Johnny Watts (Australian footballer) (1883–1952), Australian rules footballer * John K. Watts (1937–2017), Australian sportsman and broadcaster * John Watts (judoka) (born 1944), British judoka

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John Watts (military architect) John Cliffe Watts (7 May 1786 – 28 March 1873) was an Irish military officer and architect who designed some of the first permanent public buildings in the young British colony of New South Wales, and who also later became Postmaster Gene ...

(1786–1873), British military officer and colonial architect in New South Wales *

John Watts de Peyster John Watts de Peyster, Sr. (March 9, 1821 – May 4, 1907) was an American author on the art of war, philanthropist, and the Adjutant General of New York.Allaben, p. 205 He served in the New York State Militia during the Mexican–American War, M ...

(1821–1907), author on the art of war, philanthropist; early Adjutant General of the New York National Guard *

John Watts de Peyster Jr. John Watts De Peyster Jr. (December 2, 1841 – April 12, 1873) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War and a member of the famous de Peyster family of New York. His father was Brevet Major General John Watts De Peyster of the New Y ...

(1841–1873), Union Army officer during the American Civil War *

John Watts (British Army officer) Lieutenant General Sir John Peter Barry Condliffe Watts, (27 August 1930 – 10 December 2003) was a British Army officer who served as both Commanding Officer and Director of the SAS and became Chief of Defence Staff for the Sultan of Oman's Ar ...

(1930–2003), British general

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John Watts (merchant) Sir John Watts (c. 1554–1616) was an English merchant, Alderman and shipowner. He is also one of the founders of the East India Company, active in the Virginia Company and was Lord Mayor of London in 1606. He is best known for organising joint ...

(died 1616), English merchant and shipowner *

John Watts (Royal Navy officer) John Watts (1755–1801) was a Royal Navy officer. He served as a midshipman in on James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific in 1776–1780. In 1787–1789, while on leave from the navy, he sailed as a passenger on ''Lady Penrhyn'' with the Fi ...

(1755–1801), midshipman on James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific *

John Watts (Cherokee chief) John Watts (or Kunokeski; 1750–1808), also known as Young Tassel, was one of the leaders of the Chickamauga Cherokee (or "Lower Cherokee") during the Cherokee–American wars. Watts became particularly active in the fighting after frontiersmen mu ...

(died 1802), also known as "Young Tassel" *

John Watts (sailor) USS ''Watts'' (DD-567) was a of the United States Navy. Namesake Little is known about John Watts other than that he was an American merchant captain at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. Probably born about ...

(c. 1778–1823), U.S. merchant captain from Virginia *

John Watts (reformer) John Watts (1818–1887) was an English educational and social reformer. Originally an Owenite, whose economic writings affected the views of Friedrich Engels, he moved to a position more in favour of capital. In later life he had a multiplicity ...

(1818–1887), English educational and social reformer *

John Watts (composer) John Everett Watts, Jr. (1929–1982) was an American composer of electronic music throughout the 1970s and 1980s. One of the medium's main advocates and teachers, Watts wrote about new music, experimenting with literary composition and journali ...

(1929–1982), American composer *

John Watts (singer) John Watts is a British musician and multimedia artist. He was born into a family of singers on 27 December 1954 in Frimley, Surrey. Watts began his career as a mental health worker having studied clinical psychology before finding success as a ...

(born 1954), British singer/guitarist and member of Fischer-Z *

John Watts (historian) John Lovett Watts (born 29 September 1964) is an English historian specialising in the political history of late-medieval England. He is Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Corpus Christi College. ...

, late medieval historian * John D. W. Watts, Baptist theologian and Old Testament scholar * John W.H. Watts, curator and architect

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