John Clarke may refer to:

Arts

John Clarke Whitfield John Clarke-Whitfeld (13 December 1770 – 22 February 1836) was an English organist and composer. Life He was born John Clarke at Gloucester, and educated at Oxford under Dr Philip Hayes. In 1789 he was appointed organist of the parish ...

(1770–1836), English organist and composer *

John Sleeper Clarke John Sleeper Clarke (September 3, 1833 – September 24, 1899) was a 19th-century American comedian and actor. Life He was born in Baltimore, Maryland to George W. Sleeper and Georgianna Sleeper (née Clarke), and was educated for the law. In hi ...

(1833–1899), American/British actor and manager *

John Louis Clarke John Louis Clarke ("Cutapuis"; May 10, 1881 – November 20, 1970) was a Blackfoot artist and woodcarver from East Glacier, Montana who was deaf and mute, he was noted for his wildlife carvings related to Glacier National Park. His Blackfoot name ...

(1881–1970), Blackfoot wood carver from Montana *

John Clarke (socialist politician) John Smith Clarke (4 February 1885 – 30 January 1959) was a British author, newspaper editor, poet, socialist politician, and lion tamer. Born in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, Clarke began performing in the circus from a young age—riding a ...

(1885–1959), British lion tamer, politician, poet, newspaper editor and art expert *

Bryan Forbes Bryan Forbes CBE (; born John Theobald Clarke; 22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as a "Renaissance man"Falk Q. . BAFTA. 17 October 2007. Retrieved 9 May 2013 an ...

or John Theobald Clarke (1926–2013), English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist *

John Clarke (actor) John Clarke (April 14, 1931 – October 16, 2019) was an American actor. Clarke is recognized for originating and portraying Mickey Horton on the NBC soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'' for 39 years, beginning with the debut of the program in 1965, ...

(1931–2019), American soap opera actor from ''Days of Our Lives'' * John Clarke (poet) (1933–1992), American poet *

John Clarke (satirist) John Morrison Clarke (29 July 1948 – 9 April 2017) was a New Zealand comedian, writer and satirist who lived and worked in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a highly regarded actor and writer whose work appeared on the Australian Broadcas ...

(1948–2017), New Zealand/Australian satirist and actor *

John Cooper Clarke John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet, who first became famous as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. Around this time, he performed on stage with sev ...

(born 1949), British performance poet, active since the late 1970s * John Clarke (museum curator) (1954–2020), British museum curator, expert in Ladakhi and Tibetan metalwork * John Clarke (physician, 1582–1653) (1582–1653), English physician * John Clarke (physician, 1761–1815) (1761–1815), English physician and obstetrician

Business

*John Clarke, whaler and one of the discoverers of

Jan Mayen Jan Mayen () is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population. It is long (southwest-northeast) and in area, partly covered by glaciers (an area of around the Beerenberg volcano). It has two parts: larger nort ...

* John Clarke (businessman) (1773–1846), American businessman from Saratoga Springs, New York *

John Clarke (fur trader) John Clarke may refer to: Arts *John Clarke Whitfield (1770–1836), English organist and composer *John Sleeper Clarke (1833–1899), American/British actor and manager *John Louis Clarke (1881–1970), Blackfoot wood carver from Montana *John Cl ...

(1781–1852),

Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business div ...

fur trader

Government and politics

Canada

* John Clarke (Upper Canada) (born 1780s- died 1862), merchant and politician in Upper Canada *

John Fitzgerald Clarke John Fitzgerald Clarke (July 16, 1827 – April 19, 1887) was an Ontario physician and political figure. He represented Norfolk North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1871 to 1879. He was born in Coventry, England in 1827, the son ...

(1827–1887), Ontario, Canada MPP * John M. Clarke (1854–1936), lumber merchant, contractor and political figure on Prince Edward Island *

John Clarke (activist) John Clarke is an anti-poverty activist who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As of 2019, he was teaching at York University. Activism A native of United Kingdom, Britain, he moved to Toronto, Ontario and became an organizer there.Keenan Kusan ...

, Canadian political activist and founder of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

New Zealand

John Clarke (public servant) Sir Herbert John Te Kauru Clarke (born 16 April 1942) is a New Zealand public servant. Clarke was born on 16 April 1942 in Te Araroa. In 1969, he married Kathleen Lyndall Upton; they were to have two sons and one daughter. He was Race Relation ...

, New Zealand public servant

United Kingdom

* John Clarke (fl. 1601), MP for Haslemere *

John Clarke (died 1675) John Clarke, DL, JP (died 6 May 1675) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1670 to 1675. Clarke was the son of Roger Clarke of Great Torrington, Devon and his wife Honor Hockin, daughter of Christopher H ...

, English landowner and politician *

Richard Cromwell Richard Cromwell (4 October 162612 July 1712) was an English statesman who was the second and last Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and son of the first Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. On his father's death ...

or John Clarke (1626–1712), second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland *

John Clarke (Roundhead) John Clarke ( fl. 1648 – November 1681), also known as John Clark, John Clerk, and John Clerke, was an English politician and Justice of the Peace who sat in the House of Commons from 1653 through 1660, and was a colonel in the Parliamentary ...

(fl. 1648–1681), English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1653 and 1660, and fought for Parliament in the English Civil War and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland *

John Creemer Clarke John Creemer Clarke (1821 – 11 February 1895) was an English merchant and cloth manufacturer and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1885. Early life Clarke was the son of Robert Clarke of St Giles in the Wood, ...

(1821–1895), British Member of Parliament

United States

John Hopkins Clarke John Hopkins Clarke (April 1, 1789November 23, 1870) was a United States senator from Rhode Island. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, he moved to Providence where he studied under a private teacher. He graduated from Brown University in 1809, stu ...

(1789–1870), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1847–1852 *

John Clarke (Michigan politician) John Clarke (July 29, 1797 – February 3, 1876), also spelled Clark, was an American businessman, farmer, and politician. He served in the Michigan Senate in the early years of Michigan's statehood, and later in the Michigan House of Representat ...

(1797–1876), American businessman, farmer, and politician *

John Jones Clarke John Jones Clarke (February 24, 1803 – November 25, 1887) was an American politician, who served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature and as the first Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts Roxbury () is a neighborhood within the Ci ...

(1803–1887), American politician in the Massachusetts legislature * John C. Clarke (1831–1906), American politician in the Wisconsin legislature *

John Blades Clarke John Blades Clarke (April 14, 1833 – May 23, 1911) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Kentucky. Early life and family John B. Clarke was born in Brooksville, Kentucky, on April 14, 1833.''Biographical Cyclope ...

(1833–1911), U.S. representative from Kentucky, 1875–1876 *

John Proctor Clarke John Proctor Clarke (April 23, 1856 – January 12, 1932) was a Presiding Justice, New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, an intermediate appellate court in New York State, and an attorney. Clarke was Presiding Justice for a ...

(1856–1932), judge in New York State *

John Hessin Clarke John Hessin Clarke (September 18, 1857 – March 22, 1945) was an American lawyer and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1922. Early life Born in New Lisbon, Ohio, Clarke was the third and y ...

(1857–1945), associate justice of the US Supreme Court * John D. Clarke (1873–1933), U.S. representative from New York, 1921–1924 and 1927–1934 *

John Clark (Georgia governor) John Clark (sometimes spelled Clarke) (February 28, 1766October 12, 1832) was an American planter and politician. Early life Clark was born in 1766 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Along with his father, Elijah Clarke, Clark fought in the Am ...

(sometimes spelled Clarke; 1766–1832), Governor of Georgia from 1819 to 1823

Military

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John Clarke (British army officer) Sir John Clarke KCB (1787–1854) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army who became a General in the Spanish Army. One of the sons of the Rev. Marshal Clarke, a Church of Ireland clergyman, by his marriage to Elizabeth Hare, Clarke was e ...

(1787–1854), officer in the British and Spanish armies *

John Thomas Clarke Colonel John Thomas Clarke CBE, CStJ, MD (February 27, 1868 – November 28, 1947) was the 9th Canadian Surgeon General. Born in Foxboro, Ontario, Clarke was educated at the University of Toronto and McGill University. From 1897 to 1906, Clarke ...

(1868–1947), head of the Canadian military medical service * John Clarke (general), American general in the

Creek War The Creek War (1813–1814), also known as the Red Stick War and the Creek Civil War, was a regional war between opposing Indigenous American Creek factions, European empires and the United States, taking place largely in modern-day Alabama ...

from Georgia

Religion

John Clarke (Baptist minister) John Clarke (October 1609 – 20 April 1676) was a physician, Baptist minister, co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, author of its influential charter, and a leading advocate of religious freedom in America. ...

(1609–1676), co-founder of Rhode Island * John Clarke (dean of Salisbury) (1682–1757), dean of Salisbury Cathedral, mathematician and natural philosopher *

John Clarke (Congregationalist minister) John Clarke may refer to: Arts *John Clarke Whitfield (1770–1836), English organist and composer *John Sleeper Clarke (1833–1899), American/British actor and manager *John Louis Clarke (1881–1970), Blackfoot wood carver from Montana *John Cl ...

(1755–1798), minister, First Church, Boston, Massachusetts *

John Clarke (Baptist missionary) John Clarke (1802–1879) was an English Baptist minister and missionary, who served in Jamaica and Fernando Po (an island off the coast of West Africa). He is the author of a collection of comparative vocabulary in numerous West African languages ...

(1802–1879), author of ''Specimens of Dialects'' * J. Richard Clarke (born 1927), leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints *

John Clarke (bishop) John Robert Clarke (born 27 July 1938) is a retired bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. Clarke was educated at the University of Western Ontario and ordained in 1963. His first positions were as a curate at St Michael and All Angels', Toro ...

(born 1938), retired bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada * John Clarke (dean of Wells) (born 1952), Dean of Wells 2004–15

Science, medicine and academia

* John Clarke (provost) (died 1781), provost of Oriel College, Oxford *

John Henry Clarke John Henry Clarke (1853 – 24 November 1931) was an English classical homeopath. He was also, arguably, the highest profile anti-Semite of his era in Great Britain. He led The Britons, an anti-Semitic organisation. Educated at the University of ...

(1853–1931), English classical homeopath *

John Mason Clarke John Mason Clarke (April 15, 1857 – May 29, 1925) was an American teacher, geologist and paleontologist. __TOC__ Early career Born in Canandaigua, New York, the fifth of six children of Noah Turner Clarke and Laura Mason Merrill, he attended ...

(1857–1925), American paleontologist from New York * John L. Clarke (1905–1991), served as president of Ricks College *

John Henrik Clarke John Henrik Clarke (born John Henry Clark; January 1, 1915 - July 16, 1998) was an African-American historian, professor, and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the ...

(1915–1998), self-taught scholar who became an authority on African history and an advocate for Black Studies *

John Frederick Clarke John Frederick Clarke FRS (1 May 1927 – 11 June 2013) was a professor, an aeronautical engineer, and a pilot. Biography After his schooling, he got training from Fleet Air Arm as a Navy Pilot and then from Royal Air force at Lossiemouth. ...

(1927–2013), English aeronautical engineer *

John Clarke (physicist) John Clarke (born 10 February 1942) is a British physicist and a Professor of Experimental Physics at University of California at Berkeley. Clarke received BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge namely Christ's College, Ca ...

(born 1942), English physicist at University of California at Berkeley * John Clarke (mountaineer) (1945–2003), Canadian mountaineer, explorer and wilderness educator * John R. Clarke (scientist) (born 1945), serves as Scientific Director at the United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit *

John R. Clarke (historian) John R. Clarke is Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, teaching in the Department of Art and Art History. Clarke (Ph.D. Yale, 1973), joined the University of Texas at Austin in 1980. His research and ...

, Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin * John T. Clarke, (born 1952), American astronomer

Sports

John Erskine Clarke John Erskine Clarke (1827–1920) was a British clergyman who issued the first parish magazine. He established several other religious publications and was responsible for founding churches schools and hospitals in Battersea. He also competed at ...

(1827–1920), British rower and clergyman who founded the first parish magazine *

John Clarke (Australian cricketer) John Clarke (1829 – 29 February 1872) was an Australian cricketer. He played three first-class cricket, first-class matches for New South Wales cricket team, New South Wales between 1859/60 and 1862/63. See also * List of New South Wale ...

(1829–1872) * John Clarke (Scottish footballer) (fl. 1890s), footballer who played for Bury, Blackpool and Luton Town * John Clarke (English footballer) (fl. 1910s–1920s), English football forward * John Clarke (rugby league) (fl. 1930s–1940s), Australian rugby league player *

John Clarke (cricketer, born 1948) John Michael Clarke (born 25 December 1948) is a former English cricketer. Clarke was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast. He was born at Barcombe, Sussex. Clarke made a single first-class appearance for Sussex against ...

, English cricketer *

John Clarke (rugby union) John Fa'aususa Clarke (born 31 May 1975 in Lower Hutt) is a New Zealand-born Samoan rugby union player. He played as a scrum-half. Career His first international cap was against Tonga, at Apia, on 28 June 1997. He was part of the 1999 Rugby W ...

(born 1975), New Zealand-born Samoan rugby union player * John Clarke (Gaelic footballer) (fl. 2000s), Gaelic footballer for Down * John Clarke (sailor) (1934–2022), Canadian Olympic sailor * John Clarke (hurler), Irish hurler *

John Clarke (footballer, born 2004) John Clarke (born 24 April 2004) is an Irish footballer footballer who plays as a left-back for club Reading. Club career Clarke joined Port Vale's youth-team from Stockport Town in 2021. On 22 June 2022, Reading signed Clarke to join their un ...

(born 2004), English footballer

Other

* John Clarke (bushranger) (c. 1846–1867), Australian bushranger * John N. Clarke, United Nations official