John, Johnny, or Jock Simpson may refer to:

Politicians

John Simpson (Parliamentarian) John, Johnny, or Jock Simpson may refer to: Politicians *John Simpson (Parliamentarian), politician of the post-English Civil War period, see Thomas Kelsey *John Simpson (Kentucky politician) (died 1813), American attorney and politician *John Sim ...

, politician of the post-English Civil War period, see Thomas Kelsey *

John Simpson (Kentucky politician) John Simpson (died January 22, 1813) was a United States Army officer, attorney, and politician. Simpson saw military action in both the Northwest Indian War and the War of 1812. He also served 4 terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives in ...

(died 1813), American attorney and politician * John Simpson (MP for Wenlock) (1763–1850), English member of parliament for Wenlock *

John Simpson (Lower Canada politician) John Simpson (1788 – April 21, 1873) was a government official and political figure in Canada West. He was born in England in 1788 and came to Augusta Township in Upper Canada in 1815. In 1819, he became a private secretary for Lord Dalhousi ...

(1788–1873), government official and politician in Quebec *

John Simpson (Niagara politician) John Simpson (December 27, 1807 – September 19, 1878) was a businessman and political figure in Canada West. He was born in Helmsley, Yorkshire, England in 1807 and came to Niagara in Upper Canada in 1835 where he entered business as a books ...

(1807–1878), Canadian businessman and politician *

John Simpson (Ontario politician) John Simpson (May 12, 1812 – March 21, 1885) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He was a Liberal member of the Senate of Canada from 1867 to 1885. He was born in Rothes, Scotland in 1812 and came to Upper Canada with his fam ...

(1812–1885), Ontario banker and member of the Senate of Canada *Sir John Hope Simpson (1868–1961), British Liberal politician and administrator in India * John A. Simpson (1854–1916), Canadian politician *

John Thomas Simpson John Thomas Simpson (27 October 1870 – 13 December 1965) was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Waverley, Ontario and became a farmer and a municipal politician. Simpson attended schools in Simcoe Co ...

(1870–1965), Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons * John Simpson (died 1803), British member of parliament for Mitchell *

John Simpson (Kansas politician) John M. Simpson (born July 30, 1934) is a former politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Kansas. He served as a Republican in the Kansas State Senate from 1972 to 1979, before switching parties and unsuccessfully running as a Democrat in th ...

(born 1934), former Kansas State Senator

Cultural figures

*John Simpson, bassist in the American R&B band

The S.O.S. Band The S.O.S. Band (sometimes written as S.O.S. Band; abbreviation for Sounds of Success) is an American Contemporary R&B, R&B and Boogie (genre), electro-funk musical ensemble, group who gained fame in the 1980s. They are best known for the songs ...

* John Simpson (artist) (1782–1847), British painter who painted ''The Captive Slave'' * John Simpson (actor/producer), Canadian actor *Sir John William Simpson (1858–1933), English architect *

John Simpson (architect) John Simpson (born 9 November 1954), is a British architect, well known for being one of the few modern-day architects designing New Classical architecture. Education and career Simpson studied architecture at University College London. Sim ...

(born 1954), British modern-day classical architect *

John Palgrave Simpson John Palgrave Simpson (1807–1887), commonly referred to as "Palgrave Simpson", was a Victorian playwright. He wrote more than fifty pieces in a variety of genres, including dramas, comedies, operas, and spectacles, between 1850 and 1885. Sim ...

(1807–1887), Victorian playwright *

John L. Simpson John L. Simpson (born 2 September 1963) is an Australian film and theatre producer and distributor. Early life Simpson was born on September 2, 1963 in Sydney, Australia. He majored in acting at the University of Western Sydney, and also achieved ...

(born 1963), Australian film and theatre producer, writer and distributor * John Simpson (journalist) (born 1944), BBC journalist, foreign correspondent and author

Academic figures

* John Simpson (fine arts academic), former head of the School of Fine Arts at the

University of Canterbury The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...

* John Baird Simpson (1894–1960), Scottish geologist *

John B. Simpson John Barclay Simpson (born June 8, 1947) is a former president of the University at Buffalo (UB), part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.

(born 1947), former president of the University at Buffalo * John Wistar Simpson (1914–2007), American electrical engineer *

John Simpson (lexicographer) John Simpson (born 13 October 1953) is an English lexicographer and was Chief Editor of the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') from 1993 to 2013. Life John Simpson was born in Cheltenham, where his father was employed at GCHQ, and attended ...

(born 1953) *

John Alexander Simpson John Alexander Simpson (November 3, 1916 – August 31, 2000) was an American physicist and science educator. He was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications, most notably as a principal fou ...

(1916–2000), physicist *

John Simpson (British nuclear physicist) John Simpson (born 23 March 1958) is a British nuclear physicist. He is known for his work in gamma-ray spectroscopy and detector design. He was Head of Technology, Division of Technology Department. and was Head of the Nuclear Physics Group at ...

(born 1958)

Sports figures

* Jock Simpson (1886–1959), England and Blackburn Rovers footballer *

John Simpson (footballer, born 1918) John Simpson (27 October 1918 – 21 June 2000) was an English-born association football, footballer who played as a defender (association football)#Full back, left back in The Football League in the 1940s and 1950s. After playing as an amateur ...

(1918–2000), English footballer, played for Huddersfield Town and York City * John Simpson (footballer, born 1933) (1933–1993), English footballer, played for Lincoln City and Gillingham *

John Simpson (boxer) John Simpson (born 26 July 1983) is a Scottish former professional boxer who competed from 2002 to 2015. He held the British featherweight title twice between 2006 and 2010 and the Commonwealth featherweight title from 2009 to 2010. Profession ...

(born 1983), Scottish featherweight boxer *

John Simpson (English cricketer) John Andrew Simpson (born 13 July 1988) is an English cricketer who plays for Middlesex County Cricket Club. Simpson is a wicket-keeper and left-handed batsman who won the Denis Compton Award in 2004 at Lancashire, and 2011 at Middlesex. He ma ...

(born 1988), Middlesex County Cricket Club *

John Simpson (New Zealand cricketer) John Simpson (11 January 1907 – 16 June 1980) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played four first-class matches for Auckland between 1925 and 1938. See also * List of Auckland representative cricketers This is a list of all cricketers ...

(1907–1980), Auckland cricket team *

John Simpson (fencer) John Neville Simpson (16 May 1927 – 1 June 2016) was an Australian fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially kno ...

(1927–2016), Australian Olympic fencer *

John Simpson (basketball) John Simpson (born in Haydock, St Helens) is a professional basketball player who played in the British Basketball League. Guard Simpson joined the Liverpool-based Everton Tigers from local-rivals Cheshire Jets The Cheshire Phoenix are a p ...

, professional basketball player * John Simpson (American football) (born 1997), American football offensive lineman * Johnny Simpson (1922–2010), New Zealand rugby union player * John Simpson (rugby union) (1872–1921), Scottish rugby union player

Military figures

John Simpson (soldier) Major John Simpson (December 1, 1748 – October 28, 1825) was an American Revolutionary War soldier from Deerfield, New Hampshire. He is one of several men traditionally described as having fired the first shot on the American side at the Batt ...

(1748–1825), American Revolutionary War soldier at the Battle of Bunker Hill *

John Simpson (VC) Major John Simpson VC (29 January 1826 – 27 October 1884) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces ...

(1826–1884), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross *

John Simpson Kirkpatrick John Kirkpatrick (enlisted as John Simpson; 6 July 1892 – 19 May 1915) was a stretcher bearer with the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance brigade during the Gallipoli campaign – the Allied attempt to capture Constantinople, ca ...

(1892–1915), Australian World War I war hero (who enlisted as "John Simpson") *

John Simpson (RAF officer) Air Commodore John Herbert Thomas Simpson, (26 March 1907 – 26 August 1967) was a bomber pilot during the Second World War and a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) staff officer during the 1950s. In his final appointment before retirement in 1959, S ...

(1907–1967), senior RAF officer in the mid-1950s and eighth Commandant Royal Observer Corps *

John Simpson (British Army officer) Brigadier John James Hope Simpson, (10 October 1927 – 7 March 2007) was a British Army officer who served as Director SAS from 1972 to 1975. Military career Educated at Queen's Royal College in Trinidad, Simpson enlisted in the Coldstream Gua ...

(1927–2007), British Army officer and Director SAS

Miscellaneous figures

* John Simpson (journalist/consumer advocate) (born 1948), American consumer rights advocate and former journalist * John Simpson (martyr), one of the Marian martyrs *

John Simpson (Presbyterian) The Reverend John Simpson (1740–1808), was a Presbyterian minister and Whig leader in the American Revolution. Life Of Scotch-Irish descent, Simpson married Mary Remer (1743-1812) in 1765 in New Jersey. He graduated Princeton College with ...

(1740–1808), of South Carolina, in the American Revolutionary War *

John Simpson (Unitarian) :''To be distinguished from John Simpson (Presbyterian) (1740–1808), active in the American War of Independence.'' John Simpson (1746–1812) was an English Unitarian minister and religious writer, known as a biblical critic. Some of his essay ...

(1746–1812), of Bath, English Unitarian minister and religious writer *

John Woodruff Simpson John Woodruff Simpson (October 13, 1850 – May 16, 1920) was a founding member of law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, then titled Simpson, Thacher, & Barnum. He and his wife were known as avid art collectors, with many pieces from thei ...

(1850–1920), American lawyer and founding partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett * John D. Simpson (1901–1988), Canadian businessman in the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame * John Milton Bryan Simpson (1903–1987), American judge *

John Simpson (police official) John Richard Simpson (February 13, 1932 – February 10, 2017) was the first U.S. Interpol President (1984–1988) and was the sixteenth Director of the United States Secret Service (1981–1992). Born in 1932, Simpson served in the United States ...

(born 1932), former director of US Secret Service and Interpol *

John Simpson (priest) John Arthur Simpson (7 June 1933 – 24 April 2019) was an Anglican priest. Early life Simpson was born in Cardiff on 7 June 1933, to Arthur Simpson, a draper, and Mary Esther Simpson, who worked for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowl ...

(born 1933), Anglican clergyman