John Hawkins may refer to:

Public officials

* John Hawkins (naval commander) (1532–1595), English admiral * John Hawkins (17th century diplomat), ambassador of the Kingdom of England to France, 1626–1627 *

John Hawkins (MP) John Hawkins (born c 1611) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659. Hawkins was the son of Henry Hawkins of Ashton Canes, Wiltshire. He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford on 22 November 1639, aged 18. In 1659, he was ...

(c. 1611–?), English politician * John Hawkins (burgess), member of the Virginia House of Burgesses * John Hawkins (Maryland politician), American politician *

John Heywood Hawkins John Heywood Hawkins (21 May 1802 – 27 June 1877) was a British politician and barrister. The son of John Hawkins, Hawkins largely grew up at Bignor Park in West Sussex. Hawkins was educated at Eton College, and then at Trinity College, Cam ...

(1802–1877), British politician *

John Parker Hawkins John Parker Hawkins (September 29, 1830 – February 7, 1914) was a career officer of the United States Army who served as brigadier general during the American Civil War, in which he served as a commissary officer and as a commander of colored tro ...

(1830–1914), U.S. Civil War brigadier general * John Joseph Hawkins (1840–1916), politician in Ontario, Canada * John A. Hawkins (New York politician) (1864–1941), New York politician * John J. Hawkins (1855–1935), American jurist and politician in the Arizona Territory * John Clifford Hawkins (1879–?), African American lawyer and political figure * John Hawkins (diplomat) (born 1960), British ambassador to Qatar * John D. Hawkins (born 1968), South Carolina politician

Writers

* John Hawkins (grammarian) (c. 1587–c. 1641), English physician, grammarian and translator *

John Hawkins (author) Sir John Hawkins (29 March 1719 – 21 May 1789) was an English author and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole. He was part of Johnson's various clubs but later left The Literary Club after a disagreement with some of Johnson's o ...

(1719–1789), English music historian * John Sidney Hawkins (baptised 1758–1842), English antiquarian, son of the music historian *

John Hawkins (geologist) John Hawkins (6 May 1761H. S . Torrens, 'Hawkins, John (1761–1841)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', (Oxford University Press) 200 accessed 5 Dec 2007/ref> – 4 July 1841) was an English geologist, traveller and writer. Life He ...

(1761–1841), English geologist and writer * John A. Hawkins (linguist) (born 1950), English linguist

Musicians

John Hawkins (English composer) John Hawkins may refer to: Public officials * John Hawkins (naval commander) (1532–1595), English admiral * John Hawkins (17th century diplomat), ambassador of the Kingdom of England to France, 1626–1627 * John Hawkins (MP) (c. 1611–?), Engl ...

, co-composed 1964's ''

Canterbury Tales ''The Canterbury Tales'' ( enm, Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's ''magnum opus ...

'' *

John Hawkins (Canadian composer) John Hawkins (26 July 1944, in Montreal – 14 January 2007, in Toronto) was a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and pianist. He notably won the 2nd-century Week Composition Competition in 1967 for his ''Eight Movements for Flute and ...

(1944–2007), Canadian classical composer *

Big Hawk John Edward Hawkins (November 15, 1969 – May 1, 2006), better known by his stage names Big Hawk and H.A.W.K., was an American rapper from Houston, Texas and a founding member of the late DJ Screw's rap group the Screwed Up Click. Life and ...

, American rapper whose real name was John Hawkins (1969–2006)

Other

John Hawkins (archdeacon of Totnes) John Stanley Hawkins (30 June 1903 – 23 August 1965) was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Totnes from 1962 until his death. He was educated at St Chad's College and ordained in 1933.‘HAWKINS, Rt Rev. Richard Stephen’, Who's Who 2012 ...

(1903–1965), Anglican priest * John Hawkins (archdeacon of Hampstead) (born 1963) *

John Isaac Hawkins John Isaac Hawkins (1772–1855) was an inventor who practised civil engineering. He was known as the co-inventor of the ever-pointed pencil, an early mechanical pencil, and of the upright piano. Early life Hawkins was born 14 March 1772 at Taun ...

(1772–1855), engineer and inventor of the upright piano, a mechanical pencil and a letter copying machine (the polygraph) * John Hawkins (athlete) (born 1949), Canadian high jumper * John Hawkins (rower), Australian rower * John Hawkins (Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge), Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1728–1733 * TSS Sir John Hawkins (1929), passenger tender vessel

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