John Britton may refer to:
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John Britton (antiquary)
John Britton (7 July 1771 – 1 January 1857) was an English antiquary, topographer, author and editor. He was a prolific populariser of the work of others, rather than an undertaker of original research. He is remembered as co-author (mainly ...
(1771–1857), English antiquary, topographer, author and editor
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John Britton (baseball)
John Britton (April 21, 1919 – December 2, 1990) was an American baseball third baseman in the Negro leagues and in the Japanese Pacific League. He played professionally from 1940 to 1953, playing with the New Orleans–St. Louis Stars, Chicago ...
(1919–1990), American baseball player
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John Britton (doctor)
John Bayard Britton (May 6, 1925 – July 29, 1994) was an American physician. He was assassinated in Pensacola, Florida, by anti-abortion extremist Paul Jennings Hill. Britton's death was the second assassination of a Pensacola abortion provider ...
(1925–1994), American physician and abortion provider, killed by Paul Jennings Hill
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John Britton (martyr)
John Britton (Bretton) (died 1 April 1598) was an English Catholic martyr from Barnsley, Yorkshire, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was beatified in 1987.
Biography
A member of the old, established Breton family, Britton w ...
(died 1598), English Roman Catholic martyr
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John Britton (mathematician)
John Leslie Britton (18 November 1927 – 13 June 1994) was an English mathematician from Yorkshire who worked in combinatorial group theory and was an expert on the word problem for groups. Britton was a member of the London Mathematical Socie ...
(1927–1994), English mathematician, combinatorial group theorist
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John Edwin Britton
John Edwin Britton (August 6, 1924 – October 16, 2020) was a Canadian businessman and politician in Saskatchewan. He represented Wilkie from 1986 to 1995 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Progressive Conservative.
He was born ...
(1924–2020), Canadian politician
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Jack Britton
Jack Britton (October 14, 1885 – March 27, 1962) was an American boxer who was the first three-time world welterweight boxing champion. Born William J. Breslin in Clinton, New York, his professional career lasted for 25 years beginning in ...
(1885–1962), American boxer
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Jack Britton (footballer) (1900–1953), Scottish football goalkeeper
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John Britton (swimmer), 1923–2004, British and Kenyan Paralympian
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