John Avery may refer to:
Politics and law
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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 ...
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John Avery (MP for Weymouth) (fl. 1393), MP for
Weymouth
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John Avery Jr.
John Avery Jr. (September 2, 1739 – June 7, 1806) was an American politician who served as the first Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Family
Avery was a direct descendant of Dr. William Avery from Barkham, Berkshire, England, wh ...
(1739–1806), American politician; first Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
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John Avery (politician) (1824–1914), American physician and U.S. representative from Michigan
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John Avery (lawyer) (born 1948), Australian barrister
Others
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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 alias ...
(alias "John Avery", 1659–after 1699), English pirate
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John Avery (organ builder) (c. 1755–1807), English organ builder
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Skip Avery (John Thomas Avery, 1923–1990), American baseball player
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John Avery (police officer) (1927–2018), Australian police commissioner
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John Scales Avery (born 1933), American physicist and chemist
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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
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John Avery (journalist), Belizean public utilities commissioner and journalist
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Jack Avery (disambiguation)
Jack Avery may refer to:
*Jack William Avery
Sgt. Jack William Avery (5 November 1911 – 6 July 1940) was a British War Reserve Constable who was murdered in Hyde Park, London, having served less than one year with the Metropolitan Police Ser ...
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Avery John (born 1975), soccer player from Trinidad & Tobago
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