John Nixon is the name of:

Politicians

John Nixon (MP) John Nixon (1588 – 14 April 1662) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1646 to 1653. Nixon was the son of William Nixon, a husbandman of Blechington and his wife Joan Silvester. He became a merchant at Oxford and acqu ...

, Member of the Long Parliament in England, representing Oxford City 1646-1648 *

John T. Nixon John Thompson Nixon (August 31, 1820 – September 28, 1889) was a United States representative from New Jersey and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Nixon was nominated by Presid ...

(1820–1889), U.S. Representative from New Jersey * John William Nixon (1880–1949), Unionist politician in Northern Ireland

Military figures

John Nixon (Continental Army general) John Nixon (March 1, 1727 – March 24, 1815) was an American brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, on March 1, 1727, to Christopher and Mary Nixon. In 1755 ...

(1727–1815), Continental Army general from Massachusetts during the American Revolution *

John Nixon (financier) John Nixon (1733 – December 31, 1808) was a financier and official from Philadelphia who served as a militia officer in the American Revolutionary War. On July 8, 1776, he made the first public proclamation of the Declaration of Independence an ...

(1733–1808), Philadelphia merchant and militia officer during the American Revolution *

John Nixon (Indian Army officer) General Sir John Eccles Nixon (16 August 1857 – 15 December 1921) was a senior commander of the British Indian Army. He gave the orders for the ultimately disastrous first British Expedition against Baghdad during the First World War. Ear ...

(1857–1921), lieutenant general in the British Indian Army

Others

* John Nixon, Armagh, Irish Republican, see 1981 Irish hunger strike#1980 hunger strike * John Nixon, Australian artist, director of Institute of Modern Art 1980–82 *

John Nixon (mining engineer) John Nixon (10 May 1815 – 3 June 1899) was an English mining engineer and colliery proprietor and an influential figure in the development of the South Wales coalfield and export business. Life He was born at Barlow, Gateshead, the only son o ...

(1815–1899), English mining engineer * John B. Nixon (1928–2005), murderer in Mississippi, USA * John E. Nixon, director of Michigan state Budget office * John Colley Nixon (died 1818), English merchant and amateur artist * John Trice Nixon (born 1933), U.S. federal judge {{hndis, name = Nixon, John