John Law may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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John Law (artist)
John Law (born November 17, 1958) is an American artist, culture-jammer, and a primary member of the Cacophony Society and a member of the Suicide Club. He is also a co-founder of Burning Man (a.k.a. Zone Trip #4, a.k.a. Black Rock City) whic ...
(born 1958), American artist
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John Law (comics)
John Law is a fictional character created by writer-artist Will Eisner in 1948. Law is an eyepatched, pipe smoking Crossroads Police Department detective, who, with his shoeshine boy sidekick Nubbin, is featured in several adventures planned for a ...
, comic-book character created by Will Eisner
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John Law (film director)
John Law was a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter best known for his films of the 1970s.Law is credited with 10 films as an actor, 35 films as a director, 15 films as a writer and 7 films as a producer.
Early life
On November 4, 1938, ...
, Hong Kong film director
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John Law (musician) (born 1961), British jazz pianist and composer
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John Law (writer)
John Law (11 November 1929 – 5 January 1970) was a British comedy writer for television, who created the Class sketch for ''The Frost Report''.
Life
Law was born 11 November 1929, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He married Beryl Kaye (1919& ...
(1929–1970), British TV comedy writer
*John Law, pseudonym of
Margaret Harkness
Margaret Elise Harkness aka John Law (28 February 1854 – 10 December 1923) was an English radical journalist and writer.
Life
Harkness was born on 28 February 1854 at Upton-on-Severn in Worcestershire.
Work
After attending a finishing scho ...
(1854–1923), English journalist and writer
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John Phillip Law
John Phillip Law (September 7, 1937 – May 13, 2008) was an American film actor.
Following a breakthrough role as a Russian sailor in ''The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming'' (1966), Law became best known for his roles as g ...
(1937–2008), American film actor
*"John Law", a song by Dropkick Murphys first released on ''
The Singles Collection, Volume 1
''The Singles Collection, Volume 1'' is a collection of non-album tracks by Dropkick Murphys. It is the American version of '' The Early Years'' which was released in Europe, although with some track changes. This album contains everything the ...
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Politics
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John Law (New Zealand politician)
John Law is a politician and former mayor of the Rodney District Council, New Zealand. He was one of the five mayors heading the main local government entities generally considered as making up the Auckland metropolitan area ( Auckland City, Manuk ...
, mayor of Rodney District in New Zealand
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John Law (representative) (1796–1873), U.S. Representative from Indiana
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John Martin Law Jr. (1903–1981), mayor of Eau Gallie, Florida, from 1943 to 1950
Religion
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John Law (bishop)
John Law (1745–1810) was an English mathematician and clergyman who began his career as a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and went on to become chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Church of Ireland bishop of Clonfert and Kil ...
(1745–1810), English mathematician and Church of Ireland bishop
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John Law (priest)
John Law, D.D. (b Bombay 31 January 1739 - d Rochester 5 February 1827) was an Anglican priest, most notably Archdeacon of Rochester from 3 September 1767 until his death.
Law was educated at Harrow; and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Alumni Cant ...
(1739–1827), Anglican priest
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John Law (minister) (died 1712), Scottish minister
Science and academia
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John Law (economist)
John Law (pronounced in French in the traditional approximation of ''Laws'', the colloquial Scottish form of the name; 21 April 1671 – 21 March 1729) was a Scottish economist who distinguished money, a means of Financial transaction, exchang ...
(1671–1729), Scottish economist
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John Law (sociologist)
John Law (born 16 May 1946), is a sociologist and science and technology studies scholar, currently on the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and key proponent of Actor-network theory. Actor-network theory, sometimes abbreviated to ...
(born 1946), sociologist at the Open University
Sports
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John B. Law, head college football coach for the Manhattan College Jaspers, New York, 1930–1931
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John Law (Australian footballer) (born 1959), Australian rules footballer
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John Law (American football) (1905–1962), American football player
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John Law (footballer, born 1887) (fl. 1887–1914), Scottish footballer
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John Law (cricketer), English cricketer
See also
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John Laws
Richard John Sinclair Laws CBE (born 8 August 1935) is a Papua New Guinean-born Australian radio announcer. For 50 years, until 2007, he was the host of an Australian morning radio program combining music with interviews, opinion, live adverti ...
(born 1935), Australian radio broadcaster
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John Laws (judge)
Sir John Grant McKenzie Laws (10 May 1945 – 5 April 2020) was a Lord Justice of Appeal. He served from 1999 to 2016. He was the Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science at the University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of Robinson Col ...
(1945–2020), English judge
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John Lowe (disambiguation)
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