John Aitken may refer to: *

John Aitken (music publisher) John Aitken (September 8, 1831) was a Scotland, Scottish-United States, American music publishing, publisher. For a period of over six years, he was the only publisher of sheet music in the United States and may have been the first American publ ...

(c. 1745–1831), Scottish-American music publisher *

John the Painter James Aitken (28 September 1752 – 10 March 1777), also known as John the Painter, was a mercenary who committed acts of sabotage in Royal Navy naval dockyards during the American Revolutionary War in 1776–77. Early life Aitken was born in ...

or John Aitken (1752–1777) *

John Aitken (surgeon) John Aitken MD, FRCSEd (died 22 September 1790) was a Scottish surgeon, author and the first extramural teacher of medical subjects in Edinburgh since the foundation of the Edinburgh Medical school in 1726. Early life Little is known about h ...

(died 1790), Scottish surgeon *

John Aitken (editor) John Aitken (25 March 1793 – 15 February 1833) was a Scottish journalist, editor and bookseller. He was editor of ''Constable's Miscellany''. Biography Aitken was born at the village of Camelon, Stirlingshire on 25 March 1793. After a good ele ...

(1793–1833), Scottish editor *

John Aitken (meteorologist) John Aitken, FRS, FRSE LLD (18 September 1839 – 14 November 1919) was a Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer. He was one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science, who built the first apparatus to measure the numbe ...

(1839–1919) *

John Aitken (politician) John Guthrie Wood Aitken (6 February 1849 – 17 August 1921) was the Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand from 1900 to 1905. Biography Early life Aitken was born at Low Park Farm, Kilchenzie, Kintyre, Argyleshire, Scotland, on 6 February 1849 and ...

(1849–1921), mayor of Wellington, New Zealand * John Aitken (footballer, born 1870), Scottish footballer *

Johnny Aitken Johnny Aitken (May 3, 1885 – October 15, 1918) was an American racecar driver from Indianapolis, who was active in the years prior to World War I. Aitken competed in the Indianapolis 500 three times. He started the race twice, in 1911 and 19 ...

(1885–1918), racing driver * John Aitken (footballer, born 1894) (c. 1894–1917), Scottish footballer *

John Aitken (biologist) Robert John Aitken (born 4 September 1947) is a British reproductive biologist, widely known for identifying oxidative stress as a significant contribution to infertility and its actions on human sperm function. He also made substantial contrib ...

, British-born Australian-based reproductive biologist

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