John Ormsby may refer to:
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John Ormsby (negotiator) (1854–1927), negotiator for the Ngāti Maniapoto iwi (tribe)
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John Ormsby (settler) (1720–1805), American soldier from Ireland and early Pittsburgh-area settler
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John Ormsby (translator)
John Ormsby (1829–1895) was a nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish translator. He is most famous for his 1885 English translation of Miguel de Cervantes' ''Don Quixote de la Mancha'', perhaps the most scholarly and accurate English translation of the ...
(1829–1895), nineteenth-century British translator
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John William Ormsby (1881–1952), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
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