John Clarke may refer to:

Arts

* John Clarke Whitfield (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 (1881–1970), Blackfoot wood carver from Montana * John Clarke (socialist politician) (1885–1959), British lion tamer, politician, poet, newspaper editor and art expert * Bryan Forbes 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) John "Jack" Clarke (1933–1992) was an American poet. A noted poet, jazz musician and scholar of William Blake and Charles Olson, John "Jack" Clarke was the author of several books of poetry, essays and lectures, among them ''The End of This Side ...

(1933–1992), American poet * John Clarke (satirist) (1948–2017), New Zealand/Australian satirist and actor * John Cooper Clarke (born 1949), British performance poet, active since the late 1970s *

John Clarke (museum curator) John Clarke (1954-2020) was a British specialist in Ladakhi and Tibetan metalwork. He was Curator of Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum.Staff page, SOAS https://www.soas.ac.uk/cseas/events/dr-john-clarke.html Car ...

(1954–2020), British museum curator, expert in Ladakhi and Tibetan metalwork *

John Clarke (physician, 1582–1653) John Clarke (–1653) was an English physician. Life John Clarke was born in 1582 at Brooke Hall, near Wethersfield in Essex, where his family had long been seated. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and took his first degre ...

(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) "Doctor" John Clarke (1773–1846) was an American businessman who played a major role in the development of Saratoga Springs, New York, in the 1800s. Usually called "Doctor Clarke", Doctor was a courtesy title. Born in Yorkshire England, Clarke ...

(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) John Clarke (1780s – July 12, 1862) was a merchant, farmer and political figure in Upper Canada. He represented 1st Lincoln in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1820 to 1828 and from 1830 to 1834 as a Conservative. His name also ...

(born 1780s- died 1862), merchant and politician in Upper Canada * John Fitzgerald Clarke (1827–1887), Ontario, Canada MPP *

John M. Clarke John Montague Clarke (October 1854 – May 25, 1936) was a lumber merchant, contractor and political figure on Prince Edward Island. He represented 5th Kings in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1904 to 1908 as a Liberal. ...

(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) (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 (1789–1870), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1847–1852 * John Clarke (Michigan politician) (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 John C. Clarke was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Biography Clarke was born on Anglesey in Wales on February 17, 1831. He died on December 14, 1906 and is buried in Wausau, Wisconsin. Career Clarke was a member of the Assembly in 188 ...

(1831–1906), American politician in the Wisconsin legislature * John Blades Clarke (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 (1857–1945), associate justice of the US Supreme Court *

John D. Clarke John Davenport Clarke (January 15, 1873 – November 5, 1933) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. Biography Clarke was born in Hobart, New York. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1898 and B ...

(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) 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 ...

, 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) (1755–1798), minister, First Church, Boston, Massachusetts * John Clarke (Baptist missionary) (1802–1879), author of ''Specimens of Dialects'' *

J. Richard Clarke John Richard Clarke (April 4, 1927 – June 29, 2022) was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1976 until his death. He has been a member of the church's presiding bishopric and a member of the ...

(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', Toront ...

(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) John Clarke (1732–1781) was the Provost of Oriel College, Oxford and an Anglican clergyman. Education Born in 1732 he was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon, (now Abingdon School) 1742 -1749. He was a B.D. and Doctor of Divini ...

(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 (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) John Clarke, Order of Canada, CM (February 25, 1945 – January 23, 2003) was a Canadians, Canadian explorer, mountaineer, conservation movement, conservationist, and wilderness educator. For much of his adult life, Clarke spent at least six m ...

(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 John T. Clarke (born 1952) is a professor of astronomy and director of the Center for Space Physics at Boston University. Clarke is best known for his Hubble Space Telescope observations of the aurora on Jupiter and Saturn, as well as over 260 p ...

, (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) (1829–1872) *

John Clarke (Scottish footballer) John Clarke was a Scottish professional footballer. A centre forward, he played in the Football League for Bury, Blackpool and Luton Town Luton Town Football Club () is a professional association football club based in the town of Luton, ...

(fl. 1890s), footballer who played for Bury, Blackpool and Luton Town *

John Clarke (English footballer) John Clarke was an English professional footballer who played as a centre-forward in the Football League for Grimsby Town Grimsby Town Football Club is a professional football club based in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England, ...

(fl. 1910s–1920s), English football forward *

John Clarke (rugby league) John Clarke is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition during the 1930s and 1940s. Playing career Clarke played 9 seasons and 68 matches for the Eastern Subur ...

(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) John Clarke is a Gaelic footballer from County Down, Northern Ireland. He plays for the Down senior inter-county football team and with his local club St Johns GAA. Clarke made 108 appearances for Down between League and Championship. He star ...

(fl. 2000s), Gaelic footballer for Down *

John Clarke (sailor) John Clarke (19 October 1934 – 22 May 2022) was a Canadian sailor. He competed in the Finn event at the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich ...

(1934–2022), Canadian Olympic sailor *

John Clarke (hurler) John Clarke (1899 – 13 November 1962) was an Irish hurler who played for Cork Senior Championship club St Finbarr's. He also had a brief career with the Cork senior hurling team, during which he lined out at centre-forward. Honours ;St Fi ...

, 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) Brothers Thomas (c. 1840 – 25 June 1867) and John Clarke (c. 1846 – 25 June 1867) were Australian bushrangers from the Braidwood district of New South Wales. They committed a series of high-profile crimes which led to the enacting of the Fe ...

(c. 1846–1867), Australian bushranger *

John N. Clarke John N. Clarke (born 3 March 1972) is a Senior United Nations (UN) Official currently serving as Head of Mission of the Office of the Quartet The Office of the Quartet (OQ) was established in East Jerusalem in 2002 by the Quartet on the Middle E ...

, United Nations official