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In politics

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John Morrison (Manitoba politician) John Morrison (April 17, 1868—June 6, 1930) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1916 to 1922. Morrison was born in Mount Forest, Ontario, Mount Forest, Ontario, the son of Scotland, Sc ...
(1868–1930), politician in Manitoba, Canada *
John Morrison (Saskatchewan politician) John Morrison (October 29, 1872, Mt. Charles, Ontario – November 6, 1950, Yellow Grass) was a Canadian politician. Morrison was a House of Commons of Canada member for the Progressive Party of Canada from 1921 to 1925 representing the riding ...
(1872–1950), Canadian Member of Parliament * John Morrison (intelligence officer) (born 1943), British intelligence officer *
John Morrison (Montana politician) John Morrison (born 1961) is an American attorney and politician who served as the elected Montana State Auditor and Insurance and Securities Commissioner from 2001 to 2009. Morrison has been a leader in health insurance policy and litigation and ...
(born 1961), politician in Montana, USA * John Morison (Canadian politician) (1818–1873), Canadian businessman and political figure *
John Morrison (blacksmith) John Morrison (September 20, 1726 – December 27, 1816) was a farmer, blacksmith and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Londonderry Township in the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia from 1770 to 1777. He was born in New Hamps ...
(1726–1816), farmer, blacksmith and politician in Nova Scotia * John Morison (Banffshire MP) (c. 1757–1835), British MP for Banffshire *
John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale John Granville Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, TD, DL (16 December 1906 – 25 May 1996) was a British landowner and Conservative Party politician. An MP from 1942 to 1965, he notably served as Chairman of the 1922 Committee between 1955 an ...
(1906–1996), British Conservative Party politician * John Alexander Morrison (1814–1904), Pennsylvania Congressman *
John Gillis Morrison John Gillis Morrison (November 17, 1863 – April 8, 1917) was a merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Victoria County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1894 to 1909 and from 1916 to his death in 1917 as ...
(1863–1917), politician in Nova Scotia, Canada *
John T. Morrison John Tracy Morrison (December 25, 1860 – December 20, 1915) was the List of Governors of Idaho, sixth governor of Idaho from 1903 until 1905. Biography Morrison was born in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. He was married to Grace Darling Mackey ...
(1860–1915), Governor of Idaho *
John B. Morison John B. Morison (November 17, 1923 – September 2, 1996) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Wentworth (electoral district) and then Halton—Wentworth in three consecutive Canadian Parliaments as a Liberal membe ...
(1923–1996), member of the Canadian House of Commons for Wentworth and Halton—Wentworth *
John Morison Gibson Sir John Morison Gibson (January 1, 1842 – June 3, 1929) was a Canadians, Canadian politician and the List of lieutenant governors of Ontario#Lieutenant Governors of Ontario, 1867-present, tenth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. Biography ...
(1842–1929), Canadian politician *
John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil Flight Lieutenant John William Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil (22 May 1926 – 22 March 2000) was a British diplomat. Lord Dunrossil was British High Commissioner to Fiji, Nauru and Tuvalu and later to Barbados. His career reached its p ...
(1926–2000), British diplomat * John Douglas Morrison (1934–2020), Australian police officer and mayor of Waverley


In sports

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Jack Morrison (rugby league) Jack Morrison (1905-1994) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s for South Sydney and Canterbury-Bankstown. Morrison was a foundation player for Canterbury-Bankstown and the club's first captain. Playing career Mor ...
(John Harold Morrison, 1905–1994), Australian rugby league player * John Morrison (Australian footballer) (born 1947), former Australian rules footballer *
John Morrison (basketball) John Russell Morrison (born May 2, 1945) is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the American Basketball Association for the Denver Rockets at the beginning of the 1967–68 season. After the NBA, Morrison became a hea ...
(born 1945), American professional basketball player and college head coach *
John Morrison (chess player) John Stuart Morrison (born 7 December 1889 in Toronto – died 1 March 1975 in Toronto) was a Canadian chess master. Biography Morrison, whose father was a schoolteacher and principal, grew up in Toronto's west end. He discovered chess through bo ...
(1889–1975), Canadian chess player *
John Morrison (cricketer) John Francis Maclean Morrison (born 27 August 1947 in Wellington) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 17 Test cricket, Tests and 18 One Day Internationals for New Zealand national cricket team, New Zealand. From 1998 to 2013, he was a ...
(born 1947), New Zealand cricketer and Wellington City Councillor * John Morrison (footballer, born 1889) (1889–1972), Scottish footballer (Falkirk) and manager (Third Lanark, St Mirren) *
John Morrison (footballer, born 1909) John Morrison (9 November 1909 – 25 May 1992) was a Scottish footballer who played as a left back, primarily for Celtic, where he spent a decade, although he was only a regular starter for four of those yearsJohn Morrison (ice hockey, born 1895) John William "Crutchy" Morrison (March 4, 1895 - March 14, 1956) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 18 games in the National Hockey League during the 1925–26 season with the New York Americans. The rest of his career, whi ...
(1895–1956), ice hockey player *
John Morrison (ice hockey, born 1945) John Lewis "Jack" Morrison (born April 6, 1945) is an American former ice hockey athlete and corporate manager. Early life and education Morrison was born in Minneapolis. He attended Phillips Academy, where he captained the hockey and tennis t ...
, ice hockey player *
John Morrison (wrestler) John Randall Hennigan (born October 3, 1979) is an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by the ring name John Morrison. He is best known for his time in WWE, Impact Wrestling and Lucha Underground. Hennigan currently makes appe ...
(born 1979), ring name for professional wrestler, John Hennigan


In literature

* John L. Morrison (1863–1926), American journalist *
John Sinclair Morrison John Sinclair Morrison CBE (1913-2000) was an English classicist whose work led to the reconstruction of an Athenian Trireme, an ancient oared warship. Born in 1913, Morrison was professor of Greek and head of the classics department at the Univ ...
(1913–2000), British classicist and founder of the Trireme Trust *
John Morrison (writer) John Gordon Morrison (29 January 1904 – 11 May 1998) was a British-born Australian novelist and short story writer. Life John Morrison was born in Sunderland, England on 29 January 1904. His interest in flora and the natural world saw him begi ...
(1904–1998), Australian novelist and short story writer


In other fields

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John Morrison (drummer) John Morrison is an Australian jazz drummer, band leader, educator, and commercial pilot. While he is not as famous as his younger brother, trumpeter James Morrison, he is a significant musician in his own right. Voted as one of Australia's best b ...
, Australian jazz drummer *
John Morison (bacteriologist) Dr John Morison FRSE CIE (1879–1971) was a 20th-century British physician prominent in the field of bacteriophage. Life He was born in Rajshahi (now part of Bangladesh) on 6 November 1879 the son of Dr Donald Morison who had come to India as ...
(1879–1971), bacteriophage expert *
John Morison (pastor) John Morison (1791–1859) (also Morrison) was a Scottish Protestant minister in London. He was a longstanding editor of the '' Evangelical Magazine & Missionary Chronicle'', author of theological and biographical subjects, and a Congregational pa ...
(sometimes spelled Morrison, 1791–1859), Congregational minister, London *
John Morrison (priest) John Anthony Morrison (born 11 March 1938) was the Archdeacon of Oxford from 1998 until 2005. Morrison was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1964 and began his ordained ministry a ...
(born 1938), Archdeacon of Oxford * John G. Morrison (1842–1897), Irish-born navy man during the American Civil War * John L. Morrison (pioneer) (1819–1899), pioneer to Oregon and namesake of Portland's Morrison Bridge *
John Robert Morrison John Robert Morrison (; 17 April 1814 – 29 August 1843) was a British interpreter and colonial official in China. Born in Macau, his father was Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary in China. After his father's death in 1834, Morri ...
(1814–1843), British translator, diplomat and missionary in the Far East * John Stanton Fleming Morrison (1892–1961), British golf course architect * John Howell Morrison (born 1956), American contemporary classical composer and educator * John Morrison (songwriter), 19th-century Tyneside songwriter *
John Lowrie Morrison John Lowrie Morrison (born 1948, Maryhill, Glasgow), known as Jolomo, is a Scottish contemporary artist, producing expressionist oil paintings of Scottish landscapes. Career He became interested in art at an early age, copying chocolate box pic ...
(born 1948), Scottish contemporary artist * John H. Morrison (born 1933), American lawyer * John Morrison, puppeteer for
Dustin the Turkey Dustin the Turkey, a character performed by John Morrison is a former star of RTÉ television's ''The Den'' between 1989 and 2010 and from 2020. He has been described as "the most subversive comedy force on Irish television". A turkey-vulture w ...
* John Todd Morrison (1863–1944), Scots-born physicist and meteorologist *
John Frank Morrison Major General John Frank Morrison (December 20, 1857 – October 22, 1932) was a career officer in the United States Army. A veteran of the Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War, Pancho Villa Expedition, and World War I, he attained t ...
(1857–1932), American major general * John B. Morrison, United States Army general


Fictional characters

* Soldier: 76 (Jack Francis Morrison), ''Overwatch'' character


See also

* Johnny Morrison (disambiguation) {{hndis, name=Morrison, John