John Farmer may refer to:
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John Farmer (composer)
John Farmer (c. 1570c. 1601) was an important composer of the English Madrigal School. He was born in England during the Elizabethan period, and was also known by his skillful settings for four voices of the old church psalm tunes. His exact dat ...
(c. 1570–c. 1601), Renaissance composer of madrigals
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John Farmer (author)
John Farmer (June 12, 1789 – August 13, 1838) was an American historian and genealogist, born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He was the son of John Farmer and Lydia Richardson. He is buried at Concord, New Hampshire.
Farmer is considered th ...
(1789–1838), American historian and genealogist
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John Farmer (cartographer) (1798–1859), Detroit-based mapmaker
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John Farmer (1835–1901)
John Farmer (16 August 1835 – 17 July 1901) was an English composer, music teacher, and organist born in Nottingham.
Life
His father, also named John (1812 – 1894), was a butcher and his mother, Mary, was a milliner. The eldest of four ch ...
(1835–1901), music teacher at Harrow School
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John Stephen Farmer
John Stephen Farmer (7 March 1854 – 18 January 1916) also known as J. S. Farmer was a British lexicographer, spiritualist and writer. He was most well known for his seven volume dictionary of slang.
Career
Farmer was born in Bedford. His life ...
(1854–1916), lexicographer and spiritualist
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John Bretland Farmer
Sir John Bretland Farmer FRS FRSE (5 April 1865 – 26 January 1944) was a British botanist. He believed that chromomeres not chromosomes were the unit of heredity. Farmer and J. E. S. Moore introduced the term ''meiosis'' in 1905.
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(1865–1944), botanist
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John Hind Farmer
John Hind Farmer (1917-2012) was a member of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. He was head of the FREELANCE network active in Auvergne from May to June 1944. Subsequently he worked for MI6 and is said to have b ...
(1917–2012), SOE Agent, MI6 Agent
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John Farmer (footballer)
John Farmer (born 31 August 1947) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Leicester City and Stoke City.
Career
Farmer was a product of Stoke City's youth system after being found playing amateur football in his l ...
(born 1947), English footballer who played for Stoke City
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John Farmer Jr.
John J. Farmer Jr. (born June 24, 1957) is an American author, lawyer, politician, and jurist. He is the director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, where he also leads the Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience (CPR). (born 1957), Attorney General, acting governor of New Jersey, and law school dean
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John Q. Farmer (1823–1904), Minnesota politician and jurist
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