John Thornton may refer to:
Sports
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John Thornton (Australian cricketer) (1835–1919), Australian cricketer
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John Thornton (Leicestershire cricketer) (1902–1993), English cricketer
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John Thornton (baseball), American baseball pitcher
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John Thornton (American football) (born 1976), American football player
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John Thornton (athlete) (1911–1944), British Olympic hurdler
Government and politics
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John Thornton (MP), English MP for
Kingston upon Hull (UK Parliament constituency)
Kingston upon Hull, often simply referred to as Hull, was a parliamentary constituency in Yorkshire, electing two members of parliament to the Parliaments of England, Great Britain and House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, fr ...
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John Thornton (Canadian politician) (1823–1888), Canadian merchant and politician in Quebec
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John Thornton (American politician) (1846–1917), American Louisiana politician and senator
Fictional characters
* John Thornton, a leading character in Jack London's novel ''
The Call of the Wild
''The Call of the Wild'' is an adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. ...
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John Thornton (North and South), a leading character in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel ''North and South''
Other
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John Thornton (bishop), English 16th-century bishop and university administrator
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John Thornton (glass painter), English York Minster stained glass designer between 1405 and 1408
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John Thornton (cartographer)
The Thames school of chartmakers was a small group of English nautical chartmakers who plied their trade in streets and alleys leading down to the waterfront on the north Bank of the Thames, east of the Tower of London. Active between 1590 and ...
(1641–1708), English cartographer and hydrographer
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John Thornton (philanthropist)
John Thornton (1720–1790) was a British merchant and Christian philanthropist who became wealthy through investment in the North Sea Russia trade. In accordance with his Christian faith, he gave much of his money away to good causes, as one ...
(1720–1790), merchant and Christian philanthropist
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John Thornton (philosopher), British author, computer scientist and phenomenologist
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John Thornton (historian)
John K. Thornton is an American historian specializing in the history of Africa, the African Diaspora and the Atlantic world. He is a professor in the history department at Boston University.
Biography
Early life and education
Thornton was b ...
(born 1949), American historian
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John L. Thornton, former president and co-COO of Goldman Sachs
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John S. Thornton, bishop
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John P. Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic Technology Inc.
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John Wingate Thornton, American lawyer, historian, antiquarian, book collector and author
See also
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Jolly Jack's Lost Mine, a legend about a secret gold mine discovered by Canadian prospector Jack Thornton
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