John Henry (folklore)
John Henry is an American folk hero. An African American, he is said to have worked as a "steel-driving man"—a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel.
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, the folklore character and subject of eponymous ballad
(1322–1375), Royal family member of the Holy Roman Empire
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John Henry (Maryland politician)
John Henry (November 1750December 16, 1798) was the eighth Governor of Maryland and member of the United States Senate. He was born at his family's estate (''Weston''), located near Vienna in Dorchester County.
Early life
John Henry was born ...
(1750–1798), U.S. senator from and governor of Maryland
* John Vernon Henry (1767–1829), American politician, New York State comptroller
* John Flournoy Henry (1793–1873), U.S. representative from Kentucky
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John Franklin Henry
John Franklin Henry was a preacher, farmer, and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Madison County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1884 and 1885.
He was born in Mississippi.
He was lampooned as wanting t ...
Mississippi state representative
* John Henry (representative) (1800–1882), U.S. representative from Illinois
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John Snowdon Henry
John Snowdon Henry (30 September 1824 – 30 October 1896) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.
Family life
He was the eldest son of Alexander Henry, founder of A & S Henry & Co, a Manchester-based firm of cotton merch ...
(1824–1896), British politician from South-East Lancashire
* J. L. Henry (John Lane Henry, 1831–1907), Supreme Court of Texas judge
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John Henry (Australian politician)
John Henry (1 September 1834 – 14 September 1912)
was an Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly and Treasurer of Tasmania.
Henry was born in Lerwick, Shetland Isles, Scotland, the third of seven sons of John Hen ...
(1834–1912), Tasmanian House of Assembly member and treasurer of Tasmania
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Prince Johannes Heinrich of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Johannes Heinrich of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry (Johannes Heinrich Friedrich Werner Konrad Rainer Maria; Slovak: ''Ján Henrich'', Hungarian: ''János Henrik''; 28 March 1931, in Innsbruck – 14 April 2010, in Innsbruck) was a prince ...
(1931–2010), Hungarian prince
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John Henry (Ontario politician)
John G. Henry (born July 30, 1960) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was mayor of Oshawa from 2010 to 2018 and is currently chair of the Regional Municipality of Durham.
Background
Henry was born in Oshawa. The son of General Motors worke ...
John Henry (outfielder/pitcher)
John Michael Henry (September 2, 1863 – June 11, 1939) was an outfielder and starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played between and for the Cleveland Blues (1884), Baltimore Orioles (1885), Washington Nationals (1886) and New Yor ...
(1863–1939), American baseball outfielder/pitcher
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John Henry (catcher)
John Park Henry (December 26, 1889 – November 24, 1941) was a catcher in Major League Baseball who played for two different teams between the and seasons. Listed at 6' 0", 180 lb., Henry batted and threw right-handed. He attended Amhers ...
Jack Henry (American football)
John Henry is a former American football coach.
Henry's National Football League (NFL) coaching career began with the Pittsburgh Steelers during Chuck Noll's final two season as head coach (1990–91). Henry then moved on to coach at the Universi ...
John Henry (actor)
John Henry (1738-October 16, 1794) was an Irish-born actor and early American actor and theatre manager.
Career
Henry was born in Dublin, performed there and in London, and went to Jamaica with Charles Storer and his family about 1762.
He ma ...
(1738–1794), Irish and early American actor
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John Joseph Henry
John Joseph Henry (November 4, 1758 – April 15, 1811) was an American private soldier, lawyer, and judge from Pennsylvania in the American Revolutionary War.
Biography
Henry, the son of William Henry of Lancaster and Ann Wood Henry, was bor ...
(1758–1811), American Revolutionary War soldier
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John Henry (spy)
John Henry ( – 1853) was a spy and adventurer of mysterious origins. He sold documents called the Henry Papers to the United States suggesting treason by Federalists on the eve of the War of 1812 with Great Britain. The Henry Papers helped bui ...
(c. 1776–1853), British spy
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Seán Ó hEinirí
Seán Ó hEinirí (Seán Ó hInnéirghe, 26 March 1915 – 26 July 1998), known in English as John Henry, was an Irish seanchaí and a native of Cill Ghallagáin, County Mayo. He is known for his storytelling. Notably, Seán was a monolin ...
(1915–1998), known in English as John Henry, Irish storyteller and last known monolingual speaker of the Irish language
* Jack Henry (industrialist) (1917–2003), New Zealand industrialist
* Don Marion Davis (1917–2020), American former child actor known as John Henry Jr.
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John Henry (judge)
Sir John Steele Henry (born 3 July 1932) is a New Zealand jurist and former Court of Appeal judge, and member of the well-known Henry family.
Henry was born in 1932 in Auckland, the son of former High Court judge, the Hon. Sir Trevor Henry. H ...
John Raymond Henry
John Raymond Henry (August 11, 1943 – November 1, 2022) was an American sculptor. Henry's sculpture has been described as huge welded steel drawings.John Ruthell Henry (1951–2014), American serial killer
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John W. Henry
John William Henry II (born September 13, 1949) is an American businessman and investor and the founder of John W. Henry & Company, an investment management firm. He is the principal owner of Liverpool Football Club, the Boston Red Sox, ''The B ...
(born 1949), American businessman and owner of sports teams
* John B. Henry Jr. (1916-2013), United States Air Force general
*John Henry (born c. 1972), American vocalist in the band Darkest Hour
*John Henry, a stage name of British comedian Norman Clapham (1879–1934)
*Jon Henri, a pseudonym used by American cartoonist Joe Simon
Steel (John Henry Irons)
Steel is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. He is a genius engineer who built a mechanized suit of armor that replicates Superman's powers and bears Superman's logo. Initially, he sought to replace Superman af ...
, character from DC Comics, more commonly known as the superhero Steel
* ''John Henry'' (album), a 1994 album by They Might Be Giants
*"John Henry" or "John Henry Blues", a song recorded by
DeFord Bailey
DeFord Bailey (December 14, 1899 – July 2, 1982) was an American country music and blues star from the 1920s until 1941. He was one of the first performers to be introduced on Nashville radio station WSM's Grand Ole Opry, the first African-A ...
John Henry (horse)
John Henry (March 9, 1975 – October 8, 2007) was an American champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He was sired by Ole Bob Bowers (by Prince Blessed) out of Once Double (by Double Jay). John Henry had 39 wins with $6,591,860 in earnings, wa ...
(1975–2007), American Thoroughbred race horse
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Jack Henry & Associates
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. is an American technology company and payment processing service for the financial services industry. It serves more than 9,000 customers nationwide, and operates through three primary brands. Headquartered in Mone ...
, an American information technology company
*John Henry, an American brand of clothing, originated by Henry Grethel, now owned by Perry Ellis International
John Henryism
John Henryism (JH) is a strategy for coping with prolonged exposure to stresses such as social discrimination by expending high levels of effort which results in accumulating physiological costs.
Origins
The term was conceived in the 1970s ...
, a psychological term for a type of coping behaviours
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