John Avery may refer to:

Politics and law

* John Avery (MP for Old Sarum) (1362–1397), MP for

Old Sarum Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the now ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about north of modern Salisbury near the A345 road, the settlement appears in some of the earliest re ...

* John Avery (MP for Weymouth) (fl. 1393), MP for Weymouth * John Avery Jr. (1739–1806), American politician; first Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth *

John Avery (politician) John Avery (February 29, 1824 – January 21, 1914) was a physician and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1893 to 1897. Early life and education Avery was born in ...

(1824–1914), American physician and U.S. representative from Michigan *

John Avery (lawyer) John William Avery (born 11 July 1948) is an Australian former barrister based in Hobart, Tasmania. Avery notably represented the perpetrator of the Port Arthur Massacre, Martin Bryant during pre-trial and sentencing proceedings before the Supr ...

(born 1948), Australian barrister

Others

Henry Every Henry Every, also known as Henry Avery (20 August 1659after 1696), sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. He probably used several aliases ...

(alias "John Avery", 1659–after 1699), English pirate *

John Avery (organ builder) John Avery (c. 1738–1808) was one of the main organ builders in England during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Life Avery was mainly based in London. He had a reputation as a colourful character, occasionally falling foul of the law, ...

(c. 1755–1807), English organ builder * Skip Avery (John Thomas Avery, 1923–1990), American baseball player *

John Avery (police officer) John Keith Avery, (7 August 1927 – 19 May 2018) was the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police from 1984 to 1991. Commissioner of New South Wales Police John Keith Avery was the 17th leader of the organisation and the 10th person known ...

(1927–2018), Australian police commissioner *

John Scales Avery John Scales Avery (born in 1933) is a theoretical chemist noted for his research publications in quantum chemistry, thermodynamics, evolution, and history of science. Since the early 1990s, Avery has been an active world peace activist. During th ...

(born 1933), American physicist and chemist *

John Avery (gridiron football) John Edward Avery, Jr. (born January 11, 1976) is a former professional Canadian football and American football player. He last played with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, but also played with the National Football League ( ...

(born 1976), American football player in the NFL and CFL * John Avery (journalist), Belizean public utilities commissioner and journalist

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