John Walton may refer to:

People

In sport

John Walton (darts player) John Michael Walton (born 10 November 1961) is an English professional darts player currently playing in World Darts Federation (WDF) events. He is best known for winning the 2001 BDO World Darts Championship. He adopted the nickname John Boy ...

(born 1961), former BDO World Darts Champion and BDO World Masters Champion * John Walton (Formula One), late Formula One team manager * John Walton (footballer) (1928–1979), former English footballer with several clubs *

John Walton (American football) John Booker Walton (born October 4, 1947) is a former American football player and coach. He played professionally as a quarterback in the Continental Football League (CFL), World Football League (WFL), National Football League (NFL), and Unit ...

(born 1947), American football player * John Walton (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1900s * John Walton (cricketer) (1888–1970), English cricketer * John Walton (sports broadcaster), American radio sports announcer

In politics

John Walton (Continental Congress) John Walton (1738–1783), a Founding Father of the United States, was a Georgia delegate to the Continental Congress. Though born in Virginia, Walton later became a planter near Augusta, Georgia. He was elected as a delegate from St. Paul Pari ...

(1738–1783), Georgia Continental Congressman, signer of the Articles of Confederation *Sir

John Lawson Walton Sir John Lawson Walton KC (4 August 1852 – 19 January 1908) was a British barrister and Liberal politician. Family and education John Lawson Walton was the son of the Reverend John Walton MA, a Wesleyan missionary in Ceylon''Who was Who'', ...

(1852–1908), British MP and Attorney General of England and Wales *

Jack C. Walton John Calloway Walton (March 6, 1881 – November 25, 1949) was an American politician and the fifth governor of Oklahoma. He served the shortest term of any Governor of Oklahoma, being the first Governor in the state's history to be removed from ...

(John Calloway Walton, 1881–1949), former governor of Oklahoma *

John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant John Nicholas Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant (16 September 1922 – 21 April 2016) was a British neuroscientist, academic, and life peer who sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. Life Lord Walton qualified from Durham University Colle ...

(1922–2016), British politician * John Walton (Australian politician) (1927–1994), Victorian state politician

Other

John Walton (translator) John Walton, also John Capellanus (''fl''. 1410) was an English Augustinian canon, known as a poet and translator. Works Walton appears to have been a canon of Osney Abbey in 1410, when he completed his verse-translation of the '' De Consolatione ...

(fl. 1410), English Augustinian canon and poet *

John Walton (bishop) John Walton (d. ca. 1490) was an English canon regular who became Archbishop of Dublin. Life Little is known of his early life. In 1452 Walton was made Abbot of Osney, and in 1472 was elected as Archbishop of Dublin, and consecrated in Englan ...

(d. 1490?), English Augustinian abbot and archbishop of Dublin *

John Walton (botanist) John Walton LLD (1895–1971) was a 20th-century British botanist and Paleobotany, paleobotanist. Life He was born in Chelsea, London on 14 May 1895, the son of the artist Edward Arthur Walton and his wife Helen Law. The family moved to 7 B ...

(1895–1971), British botanist and paleobotanist * John T. Walton (1946–2005), son of Walmart founder Sam Walton *

John Walton (actor) John Walton (1952 – 17 July 2014) was an Australian actor of stage, television, and film, best known for his roles in television soap operas''The Young Doctors'' and ''The Sullivans.'' Walton was born in St. Ives, Sydney, Australia. Role ...

(1952–2014), Australian actor *

John Ike Walton The 13th Floor Elevators was an American rock band from Austin, Texas, United States, formed by guitarist and vocalist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, and guitarist Stacy Sutherland. The band was together from 1965 to 1969, an ...

, founding member of 13th Floor Elevators, a 1960s Texas rock group *

John H. Walton John H. Walton (born 1952) is an Old Testament scholar and Professor at Wheaton College. He was a professor at Moody Bible Institute for 20 years. He specializes in the Ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of the Old Testament, especially Genesis ...

(born 1952), Old Testament Scholar, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College *

John Isiah Walton John Isiah Walton was born in 1985 in New Orleans, where he currently lives and works as a fine artist. Walton was the first African American member of the artist collective The Front, and is also a founding member of Level Artist Collective, which ...

(born 1985), American artist * John K. Walton, professor specializing in the history of the development of tourism *

John Walton (entomologist) John Walton (23 July 1784, Knaresborough, Yorkshire- 3 January 1862, Knaresborough) was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera especially Curculionidae. His collection is held by the Natural History Museum, London John Walton wa ...

(1784–1862), English entomologist *

John Walton (priest) John Walton (25 October 1565; 30 August 1646) was an Anglican priest, who served as Archdeacon of Derby from 1603 until 1603. Walton was educated at the University of Oxford. He was appointed a Canon of Lichfield in 1567; Rector of Breadsall in ...

, English Anglican priest

Fictional people

*John Walton, character in ''

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'' *"John-Boy" Walton and John Walton Sr., characters on the US television series ''

The Waltons ''The Waltons'' is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. It was created by Earl Hamner Jr., based on his 1961 book ''Spencer's Mountain'' and the 1963 film ...

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