John Lyons may refer to: * John Lyons (Antiguan politician) (1760–1816), Antiguan politician * John Lyons (Royal Navy officer, born 1787) (1787–1872), British admiral * John Charles Lyons (1792–1874), Anglo-Irish landowner, politician, antiquary, and horticulturalist * John Lyons (VC) (1824–1867), Irish soldier in the British army, recipient of the Victoria Cross * John J. Lyons (c. 1881–1945), Secretary of State of New York, 1921–1922 * John Lyons (Australian politician) (1885–1948), South Australian politician * John P. Lyons (1876–?), Canadian diver * John Lyons (Longford politician), Irish independent / Labour Party politician, represented Longford-Westmeath, 1922–1927 * John Lyons (bishop) (1878–1958), Bishop of Ontario, 1932–1952 * John W. Lyons, mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1938–1941 * John Lyons (ice hockey) (1900–1971), United States ice hockey player who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics * J. B. Lyons (1922–2007), John Binignus Lyons, Irish medical historian and writer *

John Lyons (hurler) John Lyons (1923 - 11 June 2005) was an Irish hurler whose league and championship career with the Cork senior team spanned fourteen years from 1946 to 1960. Born near Blackpool in Cork, Lyons first played competitive hurling during his s ...

(1923–2005), Irish sportsperson * John Lyons (trade unionist) (1926–2016), British trade union leader *

John Lyons (linguist) Sir John Lyons FBA (23 May 1932 12 March 2020) was a British linguist, working on semantics. Education John Lyons was born and brought up in Stretford, Lancashire (now in Trafford). He was initially educated at St Ann's RC School, Stretford ...

(1932–2020), British linguist * John Lyons (poet) (born 1933), Trinidad-born poet, artist and educator *

John Lyons (actor) John Lyons (born 14 September 1943) is an English stage and screen actor. He played Detective Sergeant George Toolan in the long-running UK detective drama, ''A Touch of Frost'' (1992–2010) alongside David Jason. Early life Lyons was born in ...

(born 1943), British actor *

John Lyons (British politician) John Lyons (born 11 July 1949) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. At the 2001 general election, he was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden. Following the reduction in Sc ...

(born 1949), Labour Party politician *

John Lyons (American football coach) John Lyons (born March 10, 1952) is a former American football head coach best known for his 13 years as head coach of Dartmouth College. Lyons was an all-Ivy defensive back while playing for the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating in 19 ...

(born 1952), American football coach * John Lyons (end) (1911–1981), American football player *

Tison v. Arizona ''Tison v. Arizona'', 481 U.S. 137 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court qualified the rule it set forth in '' Enmund v. Florida'' (1982). Just as in ''Enmund'', in ''Tison'' the Court applied the proportionality princ ...

(died 1978), American murder victim * John Lyons (footballer) (1956–1982), Welsh footballer * John Lyons (Dublin politician) (born 1977), Irish Labour politician representing Dublin North West 2011–2016 * John Lyons (horse trainer), author and horse trainer in the field of natural horsemanship * John Lyons (journalist), Australian journalist

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