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Entertainment

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John Mason (playwright) John Mason was a British playwright, author of the Jacobean revenge tragedy ''An Excellent Tragedy of Mulleasses the Turke, and Borgias Governour of Florence,'' commonly referred to as '' The Turk (play)'', first published in 1610. Little of Maso ...
(fl. 1609), British playwright *
John Mason (poet) John Mason (1646?–1694) was a Calvinistic Anglican priest, poet and hymn-writer. Life He belonged to a clerical family living in the neighbourhood of Kettering and Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He was educated first at Strixton in Northampt ...
(1646–1694), English clergyman, poet, and hymn-writer *
John B. Mason John Hill Belcher Mason (October 28, 1858 – January 12, 1919) was an American stage actor popular during the decades surrounding the start of the twentieth century. Early life John Hill Belcher Mason was born in Orange, New Jersey the son of ...
(1858–1919), American stage actor * John Mason (artist) (1927–2019), ceramic artist from Los Angeles, California * John M. Mason (musician) (1940–2011), Scottish solicitor, musician, composer and conductor *
Ralph Mason John Francis Mason (1 September 1938 – 10 August 2016), known by his stage name Ralph Mason, was an English singer best remembered for his performances in leading tenor roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the 1960s and 1970s. After ...
(John Francis Mason, 1938–2016), English tenor


Politics


U.S.

* John Thomson Mason (1765–1824), American jurist and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806 * John Thomson Mason (1787–1850), American lawyer, United States marshal *
John Y. Mason John Young Mason (April 18, 1799October 3, 1859) was a United States representative from Virginia, the 16th and 18th United States Secretary of the Navy, the 18th Attorney General of the United States, United States Minister to France and a Uni ...
(1799–1859), U.S. Representative from Virginia and Secretary of the Navy *
John Calvin Mason John Calvin Mason (August 4, 1802 – August 1865) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. Born near Mount Sterling, Kentucky, Mason attended country and city schools in Montgomery County and Mount Sterling Law School in Lexington, Kentucky. H ...
(1802–1865), U.S. Representative from Kentucky *
John Thomson Mason Jr. John Thomson Mason Jr. (May 9, 1815 – March 28, 1873) was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, representing the sixth district from 1841 to 1843. Early life and education Born at the Montpelier estate near Hagerstown, Maryland, Mason was educ ...
(1815–1873), U.S. Representative from Maryland, son of John Thomson Mason (1765–1824)


U.K.

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John Mason (15th-century MP) John Mason may refer to: Entertainment * John Mason (playwright) (fl. 1609), British playwright * John Mason (poet) (1646–1694), English clergyman, poet, and hymn-writer * John B. Mason (1858–1919), American stage actor * John Mason (artist) ...
, Member of Parliament for Lewes and East Grinstead *
John Mason (diplomat) Sir John Mason (1503 – 20 April 1566) was an English diplomat and spy. Origins and education Mason was born to humble parents in Abingdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) in 1503. His father is said to have been a cowherd,* his mother was ...
(1503–1566), British diplomat and spy * John Mason (governor) (1586–1635), founder of the Province of New Hampshire and governor of Newfoundland *
John Mason (Scottish politician) John Fingland Mason (born 15 May 1957) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Shettleston since 2011. He was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow ...
(born 1957), Member of Parliament for Glasgow East and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston * John Mason (British diplomat) (1927–2008), UK High Commissioner to Australia


Elsewhere

* John James Mason (1842–1903), Canadian politician *
John Mason (New Zealand politician) John Mason (26 September 1880 – 9 July 1975) was a New Zealand politician and lawyer. He was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in Hawke's Bay in the 1920s. Biography Born in Hastings in 1880, Mason was a lawyer and was for a time in partn ...
(1880–1975), New Zealand politician *
John Mason (Australian politician) John Mason may refer to: Entertainment * John Mason (playwright) (fl. 1609), British playwright * John Mason (poet) (1646–1694), English clergyman, poet, and hymn-writer * John B. Mason (1858–1919), American stage actor * John Mason (artist) ...
(born 1928), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Sir John Mason (died 1720), Irish MP for County Waterford * John Mason (died 1738), Irish MP for the city of Waterford *
John Monck Mason John Monck Mason (1726–1809) was an Irish politician and literary scholar. Life Born in Dublin, he was eldest son of Robert Mason of Mason-Brook, County Galway, by Sarah, eldest daughter of George Monck of St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. On 12 ...
(1726–1809), Irish politician and literary scholar


Science

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John Alden Mason John Alden Mason (January 14, 1885 – November 7, 1967) was an American archaeological anthropologist and linguist. Mason was born in Orland, Indiana, but grew up in Philadelphia's Germantown. He received his undergraduate degree from the Univ ...
(1885–1967), archaeological anthropologist and linguist *
John Mason (meteorologist) Sir Basil John Mason (18 August 1923 – 6 January 2015) was an expert on cloud physics and former Director-General of the Meteorological Office from 1965 to 1983 and Chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technol ...
(1923–2015), British meteorologist *
John Wayne Mason John Wayne Mason, M.D. (February 9, 1924 – March 4, 2014) was an American physiologist and researcher who specialized in the interplay between human emotions and the endocrine system. Mason is regarded as an international leader and theoretic ...
(1924–2014), American physiologist and stress researcher


Sports

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John Mason (American football) John H. Mason was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Colorado School of Mines from 1947 to 1946 and at Montana State University from 1950 to 1951, compiling a career college football coach record of 24 ...
(fl. 1920s–1950s), American college football player and coach *
John Mason (announcer) John Mason is the public address announcer for the Detroit Pistons' basketball games at Little Caesars Arena who is best known for his 18-years as the host of ''Mason in The Morning'' show, which aired on WJLB, and for his colorful introduction ...
, sports announcer for the Detroit Pistons basketball team *
John Mason (cricketer) John Mason (born 6 March 1974) is an English cricketer. Mason is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm slow wobblers Seam bowlingbr>John Mason CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 August 2017. Mason made his debut for Cumberland County Cricket ...
(born 1984), English cricketer *
John Mason (runner) John Mason (born 2 September 1987) is a Canadian long-distance runner. In 2019, he competed in the men's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the bi ...
(born 1987), Canadian long-distance runner *
John Mason (soccer) John Mason was a Scottish-American soccer defender who played three seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team. Mason was the first American Youth Soccer Organization (A.Y.S.O.) graduate to turn ...
(born 1953), Scottish-American soccer defender *
Jack Mason John Richard Mason (26 March 1874 – 15 October 1958), known as Jack Mason, was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club between 1893 and 1914, captaining the team between 1898 and 1902. He pla ...
(John Richard Mason, 1874–1958), cricketer


Others

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John Mason (c. 1600–1672) John Mason (October 1600 – January 30, 1672) was an English-born settler, soldier, commander, and Deputy Governor of the Connecticut Colony. Mason was best known for leading a group of Puritan settlers and Indian allies on a combined attack o ...
(1600–1672), Commander of the Connecticut forces in the 1637 Pequot War *
John Mason (minister) John Mason (1706–1763) was an English nonconformist minister and author. Life Born at Dunmow, Essex, he was son of John Mason (died 1723), Independent minister there, and subsequently at Spaldwick, Huntingdonshire; his grandfather was John Ma ...
(1706–1763), English nonconformist minister and author *
John Mason (businessman) John Mason (c. 1773 – September 26, 1839) was an early American businessperson, merchant and banker. Mason served as the second president of Chemical Bank from 1831 through 1839 and would later be referred to as "the father of the Chemical Ban ...
(1773–1839), American banker *
John Mason (planter) John Mason (April 4, 1766March 19, 1849) was an early American merchant, banker, officer (armed forces), and planter. As a son of George Mason, a Founding Father of the United States, Mason was a scion of the prominent Mason political family. ...
(1766–1849), American banker and planter, son of George Mason *
John Charles Mason John Charles Mason (1798–1881) was a British East India Company servant and marine secretary to the Indian government (home establishment). Mason, born in London in March 1798, was the only son of Alexander Way Mason, chief clerk in the secretar ...
(1798–1881), British East India Company secretary and diplomat *
John M. Mason (theologian) John Mitchell Mason (March 19, 1770 – December 26, 1829) was an American preacher and theologian who was Provost of Columbia College in the early 1810s, and briefly President of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the early 1820s. ...
(1770–1829), American preacher and theologian * John Mason (outlaw) (died 1866), bushwhacker and bandit *
John S. Mason John Sanford Mason (August 21, 1824 – November 29, 1897) was a career officer in the United States Army who served as a General officer, general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Eicher, p. 367. Early life and career John S. Ma ...
(1824–1897), Union general in the American Civil War *
John Landis Mason John Landis Mason (1832 in Vineland, New Jersey – February 26, 1902) was an American tinsmith and the patentee of the metal screw-on lid for antique fruit jars that have come to be known as Mason jars. Many such jars were printed with the line " ...
(1832–1902), who patented glass-threaded mason jars used in food preservation *
John Mason (historian) John Mason (9 June 1920 – 31 October 2009) was a British historian and academic. Life John Mason was born in Pembrokeshire, west Wales, on 9 June 1920. He studied at Bridgnorth Grammar School in Shropshire, and then at Jesus College, Oxford, ...
(1920–2009), British historian and Oxford academic *
John Mason (schoolmaster) Jonathan Anthony Mason (born 10 January 1945 in Dehradun, India), is an Indian schoolmaster and educationist. He has served as the Headmaster of several major public schools, including St. James' School, Kolkata, the Modern High School in Dubai, ...
(born 1945), Indian educationist *
John Mason (astronomer) John Mason may refer to: Entertainment * John Mason (playwright) (fl. 1609), British playwright * John Mason (poet) (1646–1694), English clergyman, poet, and hymn-writer * John B. Mason (1858–1919), American stage actor * John Mason (artist ...
, former president of the British Astronomical Association ** Minor planet 6092 Johnmason, named after him *
John Mason (master) John Mason was master of the ''Prince of Wales'' a transport ship in the First Fleet, assigned to transport convicts for the European colonisation of Australia. ''Prince of Wales'' left Portsmouth on 13 May 1787, carrying 47 female convicts. Six ...
, master of the ''Prince of Wales'' in the First Fleet


Other uses

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John Mason School John Mason School is a secondary school with Sixth Form in the town of Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. History Established as a grammar school in 1960, Berkshire Education Committee named it John Mason School after sixteenth-century intellect ...
, a secondary school in Abingdon, UK.


See also

* Mason (surname) *
John Thomson Mason (disambiguation) John Thomson Mason may refer to: * John Thomson Mason (1765–1824), American jurist and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806 * John Thomson Mason (1787–1850), American lawyer, United States marshal, Secretary of Michigan Territory from 1830 thro ...
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