John Mason may refer to:

Entertainment

John Mason (playwright) John Mason was a British playwright, author of the Jacobean revenge tragedy ''An Excellent Tragedy of Mulleasses the Turke, and Borgias Governour of Florence,'' commonly referred to as ''The Turk (play)'', first published in 1610. Little of Mason ...

(fl. 1609), British playwright *

John Mason (poet) John Mason (1646?–1694) was a Calvinistic Anglican priest, poet and hymn-writer. Life He belonged to a clerical family living in the neighbourhood of Kettering and Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He was educated first at Strixton in Northam ...

(1646–1694), English clergyman, poet, and hymn-writer * John B. Mason (1858–1919), American stage actor * John Mason (artist) (1927–2019), ceramic artist from Los Angeles, California * John M. Mason (musician) (1940–2011), Scottish solicitor, musician, composer and conductor * Ralph Mason (John Francis Mason, 1938–2016), English tenor

Politics

U.S.

John Thomson Mason John Thomson Mason (15 March 1765 – 10 December 1824) was an American lawyer and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806. Early life Mason was born on 15 March 1765 at Chopawamsic in Stafford County, Virginia. He was the third child and you ...

(1765–1824), American jurist and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806 *

John Thomson Mason (1787–1850) John Thomson Mason (January 8, 1787 – April 17, 1850) was an American lawyer, United States marshal, Secretary of Michigan Territory from 1830 through 1831, land agent, and an important figure in the Texas Revolution. Early life and ed ...

, American lawyer, United States marshal *

John Y. Mason John Young Mason (April 18, 1799October 3, 1859) was a United States representative from Virginia, the 16th and 18th United States Secretary of the Navy, the 18th Attorney General of the United States, United States Ambassador to France, United ...

(1799–1859), U.S. Representative from Virginia and Secretary of the Navy *

John Calvin Mason John Calvin Mason (August 4, 1802 – August 1865) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. Born near Mount Sterling, Kentucky, Mason attended country and city schools in Montgomery County and Mount Sterling Law School in Lexington, Kentucky. ...

(1802–1865), U.S. Representative from Kentucky *

John Thomson Mason Jr. John Thomson Mason Jr. (May 9, 1815 – March 28, 1873) was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, representing the sixth district from 1841 to 1843. Early life and education Born at the Montpelier estate near Hagerstown, Maryland, Mason was ed ...

(1815–1873), U.S. Representative from Maryland, son of John Thomson Mason (1765–1824)

U.K.

* John Mason (15th-century MP), Member of Parliament for Lewes and East Grinstead *

John Mason (diplomat) Sir John Mason (1503 – 20 April 1566) was an English diplomat and spy. Origins and education Mason was born to humble parents in Abingdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) in 1503. His father is said to have been a cowherd,* his mother wa ...

(1503–1566), British diplomat and spy *

John Mason (governor) Captain John Mason (1586–1635) was a sailor and colonist who was instrumental to the establishment of various settlements in colonial America. Born in 1586 at King's Lynn, Norfolk, and educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1610, he was appoin ...

(1586–1635), founder of the Province of New Hampshire and governor of Newfoundland *

John Mason (Scottish politician) John Fingland Mason (born 15 May 1957) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Shettleston since 2011. He was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow ...

(born 1957), Member of Parliament for Glasgow East and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston *

John Mason (British diplomat) Sir John Charles Moir Mason (13 May 1927 – 16 March 2008) was a British diplomat with Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service. He was the British Ambassador to Israel The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Israel is the United Kingdom's foremost ...

(1927–2008), UK High Commissioner to Australia

Elsewhere

John James Mason John James Mason (4 February 1842 – 15 June 1903) was mayor of Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Hamilton has a Canada 2016 Census, population of 569,353, ...

(1842–1903), Canadian politician *

John Mason (New Zealand politician) John Mason (26 September 1880 – 9 July 1975) was a New Zealand politician and lawyer. He was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in Hawke's Bay in the 1920s. Biography Born in Hastings in 1880, Mason was a lawyer and was for a time in partner ...

(1880–1975), New Zealand politician *

John Mason (Australian politician) John Mason may refer to: Entertainment * John Mason (playwright) (fl. 1609), British playwright * John Mason (poet) (1646–1694), English clergyman, poet, and hymn-writer * John B. Mason (1858–1919), American stage actor * John Mason (artist) ...

(born 1928), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Sir

John Mason (died 1720) John Mason may refer to: Entertainment * John Mason (playwright) (fl. 1609), British playwright * John Mason (poet) (1646–1694), English clergyman, poet, and hymn-writer * John B. Mason (1858–1919), American stage actor * John Mason (artist) ...

, Irish MP for County Waterford * John Mason (died 1738), Irish MP for the city of Waterford *

John Monck Mason John Monck Mason (1726–1809) was an Irish politician and literary scholar. Life Born in Dublin, he was eldest son of Robert Mason of Mason-Brook, County Galway, by Sarah, eldest daughter of George Monck of St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. On 12 ...

(1726–1809), Irish politician and literary scholar

Science

John Alden Mason John Alden Mason (January 14, 1885 – November 7, 1967) was an American archaeological anthropologist and linguist. Mason was born in Orland, Indiana, but grew up in Philadelphia's Germantown. He received his undergraduate degree from the Univ ...

(1885–1967), archaeological anthropologist and linguist *

John Mason (meteorologist) Sir Basil John Mason (18 August 1923 – 6 January 2015) was an expert on cloud physics and former Director-General of the Meteorological Office from 1965 to 1983 and Chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technolo ...

(1923–2015), British meteorologist *

John Wayne Mason John Wayne Mason, M.D. (February 9, 1924 – March 4, 2014) was an American physiologist and researcher who specialized in the interplay between human emotions and the endocrine system. Mason is regarded as an international leader and theoretic ...

(1924–2014), American physiologist and stress researcher

Sports

John Mason (American football) John H. Mason was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Colorado School of Mines from 1947 to 1946 and at Montana State University from 1950 to 1951, compiling a career college football coach record of 24 ...

(fl. 1920s–1950s), American college football player and coach *

John Mason (announcer) John Mason is the public address announcer for the Detroit Pistons' basketball games at Little Caesars Arena who is best known for his 18-years as the host of ''Mason in The Morning'' show, which aired on WJLB, and for his colorful introductions, ...

, sports announcer for the Detroit Pistons basketball team *

John Mason (cricketer) John Mason (born 6 March 1974) is an English cricketer. Mason is a right-handed batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball, ball with a cricket bat, bat to score runs (cricket), runs and prevent the di ...

(born 1984), English cricketer *

John Mason (runner) John Mason (born 2 September 1987) is a Canadian long-distance runner. In 2019, he competed in the men's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the bi ...

(born 1987), Canadian long-distance runner *

John Mason (soccer) John Mason was a Scottish-American soccer defender who played three seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team. Mason was the first American Youth Soccer Organization (A.Y.S.O.) graduate to turn ...

(born 1953), Scottish-American soccer defender *

Jack Mason John Richard Mason (26 March 1874 – 15 October 1958), known as Jack Mason, was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club between 1893 and 1914, captaining the team between 1898 and 1902. He play ...

(John Richard Mason, 1874–1958), cricketer

Others

John Mason (c. 1600–1672) John Mason (October 1600 – January 30, 1672) was an English-born settler, soldier, commander, and Deputy Governor of the Connecticut Colony. Mason was best known for leading a group of Puritan settlers and Indian allies on a combined attack o ...

(1600–1672), Commander of the Connecticut forces in the 1637 Pequot War * John Mason (minister) (1706–1763), English nonconformist minister and author *

John Mason (businessman) John Mason (c. 1773 – September 26, 1839) was an early American businessperson, merchant and banker. Mason served as the second president of Chemical Bank from 1831 through 1839 and would later be referred to as "the father of the Chemical Ba ...

(1773–1839), American banker *

John Mason (planter) John Mason (April 4, 1766March 19, 1849) was an early American merchant, banker, officer (armed forces), and planter. As a son of George Mason, a Founding Father of the United States, Mason was a scion of the prominent Mason political family. ...

(1766–1849), American banker and planter, son of George Mason *

John Charles Mason John Charles Mason (1798–1881) was a British East India Company servant and marine secretary to the Indian government (home establishment). Mason, born in London in March 1798, was the only son of Alexander Way Mason, chief clerk in the secretar ...

(1798–1881), British East India Company secretary and diplomat *

John M. Mason (theologian) John Mitchell Mason (March 19, 1770 – December 26, 1829) was an American preacher and theologian who was Provost of Columbia College in the early 1810s, and briefly President of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the early 1820s. ...

(1770–1829), American preacher and theologian * John Mason (outlaw) (died 1866), bushwhacker and bandit * John S. Mason (1824–1897), Union general in the American Civil War *

John Landis Mason John Landis Mason (1832 in Vineland, New Jersey – February 26, 1902) was an American tinsmith and the patentee of the metal screw-on lid for antique fruit jars that have come to be known as Mason jars. Many such jars were printed with the line ...

(1832–1902), who patented glass-threaded mason jars used in food preservation * John Mason (historian) (1920–2009), British historian and Oxford academic *

John Mason (schoolmaster) Jonathan Anthony Mason (born 10 January 1945 in Dehradun, India), is an Indian schoolmaster and educationist. He has served as the Headmaster of several major public schools, including St. James' School, Kolkata, the Modern High School in Dubai ...

(born 1945), Indian educationist * John Mason (astronomer), former president of the British Astronomical Association ** Minor planet 6092 Johnmason, named after him *

John Mason (master) John Mason was master of the ''Prince of Wales'' a transport ship in the First Fleet, assigned to transport convicts for the European colonisation of Australia. ''Prince of Wales'' left Portsmouth on 13 May 1787, carrying 47 female convicts. Six ...

, master of the ''Prince of Wales'' in the First Fleet

Other uses

John Mason School John Mason School is a secondary school with Sixth Form in the town of Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. History Established as a grammar school in 1960, Berkshire Education Committee named it John Mason School after sixteenth-century intellect ...

, a secondary school in Abingdon, UK.