John Austin may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* John P. Austin (1906–1997), American set decorator *

Johnny Austin Johnny Austin (December 23, 1910 – February 14, 1983) was an American jazz trumpeter from Vineland, New Jersey. Career Austin played trumpet with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, parting ways with that band in 1939. He formed the Johnny Austin Or ...

(1910–1983), American musician * John Austin (author) (fl. 1940s), British novelist

Military

John Austin (soldier) John Austin (March 17, 1801 – August 11, 1833) was a Texian settler, one of Stephen Austin's Old Three Hundred, and the Texian commander at the Battle of Velasco during the Anahuac Disturbances before Texas Revolution. No relation (or a dist ...

(1801–1833), active in early settlement of Mexican Texas * John Arnold Austin (1905–1941), United States Navy warrant officer * John Beech Austin (1917–2012), British aviator in World War II

Philosophy

J. L. Austin John Langshaw Austin (26 March 1911 – 8 February 1960) was an English philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, best known for developing the theory of speech acts. Austin pointed out that we use lan ...

(John Langshaw Austin, 1911–1960), British philosopher of language *

John Austin (legal philosopher) John Austin (3 March 1790 – 1 December 1859) was an English legal theorist who posthumously influenced British and American law with an analytical approach to jurisprudence and a theory of legal positivism. Austin opposed traditional approache ...

(1790–1859), British legal and political theorist

Politics

John Gardiner Austin John Gardiner Austin ( zh, 柯士甸; 7 August 1812 – 25 July 1900) was a British colonial administrator. He was Lieutenant-Governor of British Honduras 1864–1867, and Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1868 to 1879, acting as Adm ...

(1812–1900), British colonial secretary of Hong Kong *

Sir John Austin, 1st Baronet Sir John Austin, 1st Baronet (9 March 1824 – 30 March 1906) was a Liberal Party politician in England. At the 1886 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Osgoldcross in the West Riding of Yorkshire, defeating the si ...

(1824–1906), British politician, MP for Osgoldcross *

John Austin (politician) John Eric Austin (born 21 August 1944), formerly Austin-Walker, is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Woolwich from 1992 to 1997 and for Erith and Thamesmead from 1997 to 2010. Early life He att ...

(born 1944), British politician, MP

Religion

John Austin (1613–1669) John Austin or Austen (born 1613 at Walpole, Suffolk, England; died London, 1669) was an English lawyer, controversial writer, and one of the founding Fellows of the Royal Society. Life He was a student of St. John's College, Cambridge, and of Li ...

, English Catholic theologian and writer *

John Austin (Jesuit) John Austin, S.J. (12 April 1717, Dublin - 29 September 1784, Dublin), was an Irish Jesuit. Austin was a noted educator and preacher. Life John Austin was born in Dublin on 12 April 1717. As a young man, Austin left Ireland for France where, at ...

(1717–1784), Irish Jesuit * John Mather Austin (1805–1880), American Universalist clergyman *

John Austin (bishop) John Michael Austin (14 March 193917 August 2007) was the Bishop of Aston from 1992 to 2005, filling a post which had been vacant since the previous incumbent Colin Buchanan resigned in 1989. After Austin the post again remained vacant for th ...

(1939–2007), British bishop of Aston

Sports

John Austin (cricketer) John Austin (20 June 1871 – 2 November 1956) was a Barbadian cricketer. He played in two first-class matches for the Barbados cricket team in 1905/06. See also * List of Barbadian representative cricketers This is a list of all crickete ...

(1871–1956), Barbadian cricketer *

John Austin (basketball) John W. Austin (born August 31, 1944) is a retired American basketball player. Born in Washington, D.C., Austin played at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, then collegiately for Boston College, the first African American b ...

(born 1944), American basketball player *

John Austin (tennis) John Austin (born July 31, 1957) is an American former professional tennis player born in Long Beach, California. He won the Wimbledon mixed doubles championship with his sister, Tracy Austin, in 1980, becoming the first brother and sister te ...

(born 1957), American tennis player *

John Austin (American football) John Austin is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of South Dakota from 1999 to 2003, compiling a record of 22–32. Austin is a former South Dakota Coyotes football player who serve ...

(fl. 1976–2003), American college football player and coach

Others

* J. Paul Austin. President and CEO of

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, 1962–1981 *

John Austin (highwayman) John Austin (died 7 November 1783) was an English footpad who became the last person to be hanged at the Tyburn gallows just outside London. He was sentenced to death for the attempted murder of a labourer called John Spicer from Kent. The Recorde ...

(died 1783), English criminal, last person hanged on the gallows at Tyburn, London *

John Austin (inventor) John Austin (17 April 1752 – 1830), was a Scottish inventor, known for inventing musical equipment, improvements to weaving machines, and a new system of stenography. Austin was a native of Craigton near Glasgow, where is father was gardener ...

(1752–1830), Scottish inventor of musical equipment *

John Alexander Austin John Alexander Austin (September 30, 1912 – December 1, 1984) was a pioneering Canadian aviator An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls. Some othe ...

(1912–1984), Canadian aviator *

John C. Austin John Corneby Wilson Austin (February 13, 1870 – September 3, 1963) was an architect and civic leader who participated in the design of several landmark buildings in Southern California, including the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles City Hall, ...

(1870–1963), British-born American architect *

John Osborne Austin John Osborne Austin (December 28, 1849 – October 27, 1918) was a genealogist who wrote and published several books, primarily on the families of Rhode Island. The work for which he is best known is the ''Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Isla ...

(1849–1918), American genealogist