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John Watts (1715–1789) John Watts (April 16, 1715 – August 15, 1789) was a British-born Scottish-American businessman and landowner. Early life Watts was born on April 16, 1715 in New York City. He was the son and fourth child born to Mary ( née Nicoll) Watts (b. 1 ...

, Member of the New York General Assembly * John Watts (New York politician) (1749–1836), U.S. Representative from New York **

Statue of John Watts An outdoor bronze sculpture depicting U.S. Congressman John Watts by George Edwin Bissell is installed in the Trinity Church Cemetery outside Manhattan's Trinity Church, in the U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent p ...

, an 1893 outdoor bronze sculpture *

John Watts (Australian politician) John Watts (27 February 1821 – 18 November 1902) was a member of both the Queensland Legislative Assembly and the Queensland Legislative Council. Watts managed the Eton Vale station with Arthur Hodgson and later took it over. During his time ...

(1821–1902), Queensland politician * John Watts (British politician) (1947–2016), British MP from Slough * John Watts (Stoke politician) (1864–1951), British political activist and mine rescue hero * John Watts (Grenadian politician) (1921/22-2015), Grenada MP *

John C. Watts John Clarence Watts (July 9, 1902 – September 24, 1971) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. Born in Nicholasville, Kentucky, Watts attended the public schools. He was graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1925 and from its law sc ...

(1902–1971), U.S. Representative from Kentucky * John Sebrie Watts (1816–1876), U.S. House Delegate from New Mexico Territory

Sports

* John Watts (athlete) (born 1939), British Olympic athlete *

John Watts (jockey) John Watts (1861–1902) was a British flat-race jockey. In a career that lasted from 1880 until 1900 he rode the winners of 19 Classics. He was noted for his quiet and unspectacular style and undemonstrative personality. On his retirement from ...

(1860–1902), British jockey *

Johnny Watts (English footballer) John William Watts (13 April 1931 – March 2006) was an English footballer who made more than 200 appearances in the Football League for Birmingham City playing as a right half. Watts was born in the Vauxhall district of Birmingham. He joined ...

(1931–2006), English football player for Birmingham City F.C. * Johnny Watts (Australian footballer) (1883–1952), Australian rules footballer *

John K. Watts John Albert Watts (later known as John K. Watts, 21 January 1937 – 3 June 2017) was an Australian rules football player and radio broadcaster and television personality. Early life John Watts was born on 21 January 1937 in East Perth, Western ...

(1937–2017), Australian sportsman and broadcaster * John Watts (judoka) (born 1944), British judoka

Military

John Watts (military architect) John Cliffe Watts (7 May 1786 – 28 March 1873) was an Irish military officer and architect who designed some of the first permanent public buildings in the young British colony of New South Wales, and who also later became Postmaster Gener ...

(1786–1873), British military officer and colonial architect in New South Wales *

John Watts de Peyster John Watts de Peyster, Sr. (March 9, 1821 – May 4, 1907) was an American author on the art of war, philanthropist, and the Adjutant General of New York.Allaben, p. 205 He served in the New York State Militia during the Mexican–American War an ...

(1821–1907), author on the art of war, philanthropist; early Adjutant General of the New York National Guard *

John Watts de Peyster Jr. John Watts De Peyster Jr. (December 2, 1841 – April 12, 1873) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War and a member of the famous de Peyster family of New York. His father was Brevet Major General John Watts De Peyster of the New Yo ...

(1841–1873), Union Army officer during the American Civil War *

John Watts (British Army officer) Lieutenant General Sir John Peter Barry Condliffe Watts (27 August 1930 – 10 December 2003) was a British Army officer who became Chief of Defence Staff for the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces. Military career Educated at Westminster School, Ph ...

(1930–2003), British general

Others

John Watts (merchant) John Watts (c. 1554 – 1616) was an English merchant, Alderman and shipowner, active in the East India Company and Virginia Company and Lord Mayor of London in 1606. Life The son of Thomas Watts of Buntingford, Hertfordshire, he was the owner of ...

(died 1616), English merchant and shipowner *

John Watts (Royal Navy officer) John Watts (1755–1801) was a Royal Navy officer. He served as a midshipman in on James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific in 1776–1780. In 1787–1789, while on leave from the navy, he sailed as a passenger on ''Lady Penrhyn'' with the Fi ...

(1755–1801), midshipman on James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific * John Watts (Cherokee chief) (died 1802), also known as "Young Tassel" *

John Watts (sailor) USS ''Watts'' (DD-567) was a of the United States Navy. Namesake Little is known about John Watts other than that he was an American merchant captain at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. Probably born about ...

(c. 1778–1823), U.S. merchant captain from Virginia *

John Watts (reformer) John Watts (1818–1887) was an English educational and social reformer. Originally an Owenite, whose economic writings affected the views of Friedrich Engels, he moved to a position more in favour of capital. In later life he had a multiplicity ...

(1818–1887), English educational and social reformer *

John Watts (composer) John Everett Watts, Jr. (1929–1982) was an American composer of electronic music throughout the 1970s and 1980s. One of the medium's main advocates and teachers, Watts wrote about new music, experimenting with literary composition and journali ...

(1929–1982), American composer *

John Watts (singer) John Watts is a British musician and multimedia artist. He was born into a family of singers on 27 December 1954 in Frimley, Surrey. Watts began his career as a mental health worker having studied clinical psychology before finding success as a ...

(born 1954), British singer/guitarist and member of Fischer-Z *

John Watts (historian) John Lovett Watts (born 1964) is an English historian specialising in the political history of late-medieval England. Born on 29 September 1964, he studied for his PhD under Christine Carpenter, researching politics and the English constitut ...

, late medieval historian *

John D. W. Watts John D. W. Watts (August 9, 1921 – July 21, 2013) was a Baptist theologian and Old Testament scholar. Career Europe In 1948, Watts was a member of the founding faculty of the International Baptist Theological Seminary, Rüschlikon in Switzerl ...

, Baptist theologian and Old Testament scholar * John W.H. Watts, curator and architect

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