John Whitehead may refer to:

In business and government

* John Meek Whitehead (1852–1924), American politician in Wisconsin *

John C. Whitehead John Cunningham Whitehead (April 2, 1922 – February 7, 2015) was an American banker and civil servant, a board member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (WTC Memorial Foundation), and, until his resignation in May 2006, chairman of ...

(1922–2015), American banker and civil servant * John Whitehead (diplomat) (1932–2013), British diplomat and businessman *

John Whitehead (public servant) John Henry Whitehead is a New Zealand economist. He served as Secretary of the Treasury between April 2003 and May 2011. He has been chancellor and board chair of St John New Zealand since June 2020. Early career Whitehead graduated in 1970 ...

, secretary of the New Zealand Treasury *

John L. Whitehead John Lewis Whitehead (February 10, 1907 – August 9, 1988) was an American politician. The son of Congressman Joseph Whitehead, he represented Montgomery County and Radford in the Virginia House of Delegates for three terms until his defeat ...

, member of the Virginia House of Delegates

In sport

John Whitehead (footballer) John Whitehead was a footballer who played in the Football League for Bootle, Everton and Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English d ...

(fl. 1890s), English footballer *

John Whitehead (baseball) John Henderson Whitehead (April 27, 1909 – October 20, 1964) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Browns between 1935 and 1942. Whitehead batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Coleman, Te ...

(1909–1964), American baseball player for the Chicago White Sox * John Whitehead (American football) (1924–2002), American football coach *

John Whitehead (cricketer) John Parkin Whitehead (3 September 1925 – 15 August 2000) was an English first-class cricketer, who played thirty seven first-class games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1946 to 1951, plus thirty three for Worcestershire County Crick ...

(1925–2000), English cricketer

Other people

John Whitehead (theologian) John Whitehead (fl. 1389–1415) was an Irish theologian. A native of Ireland, Whitehead studied at Oxford where in 1408 he is referred to as a Doctor of Theology. Up to 1415 he was rector of Stabannan, County Louth. Like Henry Crumpe and Richa ...

, 15th-century Irish theologian *

John Whitehead (architect) John Whitehead may refer to: In business and government * John Meek Whitehead (1852–1924), American politician in Wisconsin * John C. Whitehead (1922–2015), American banker and civil servant * John Whitehead (diplomat) (1932–2013), British di ...

(1726–1802), English architect and amateur engineer, designer of the

Feitoria Inglesa The British Factory House ( pt, Feitoria Inglesa), also known as the British Association House, is an 18th-century Neo-Palladian building located in the northern Portuguese centre of Porto, associated with the influence of Britain in the Porto Win ...

John Whitehead (physician) John Whitehead (1740?–1804) was an English physician and lay preacher, known as a biographer of John Wesley. Early life He was born about 1740, apparently at Dukinfield, Cheshire, of parents who had left an older dissenting congregation to join ...

(1740–1804), English physician and lay preacher; biographer of John Wesley * John Whitehead (explorer) (1860–1899), British explorer *

J. H. C. Whitehead John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS (11 November 1904 – 8 May 1960), known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai (then known as Madras), in India, and died in Princeton, ...

(1904–1960), British mathematician * John B. Whitehead (1872–1954), American electrical engineer and a professor at Johns Hopkins University *

John L. Whitehead Jr. John Lyman Whitehead Jr. ("Mr. Death") (May 14, 1924 – September 6, 1992) was an American who served in World War II (as part of the Tuskegee Airmen), the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He was the first African American to graduate from the ...

(1924–1992), American military and test pilot * John Whitehead (singer) (1948–2004), American singer and one-half of the duo McFadden & Whitehead *

John M. Whitehead (soldier) John Milton Whitehead (March 6, 1823 - March 8, 1909) was an American chaplain who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other n ...

(1823-1909), American chaplain and Medal of Honor recipient * John W. Whitehead, constitutional attorney and conservative author, founder of the Rutherford Institute in 1982

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