John Joseph Akar (1927–1975) was a Sierra Leonean entertainer, writer, and diplomat. He served as Sierra Leonean ambassador to the United States. Today, he is probably best known for composing the music of Sierra Leone's National Anthem.
Sir John Alexander Hammerton is described by the Dictionary of National Biography as "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known".
John Alfred Faulkner was an American church historian and Methodist minister. He was born in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, and graduated from Acadia College where he earned three degrees, A.B. (1878). A.M. (1890), and D.D. (1902). In 1881 he earned his B.D. from Drew Theological Seminary. He also studied at Andover Theological Seminary and the University of Leipzig. He served as a minister in the Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1897 he returned to Drew University as the Professor of Church History, a post previously held by George R. Crooks. Faulkner's earlier work, The Methodists, indicates that the title of his post was originally Professor of Historical Theology. This would be Faulkner's only academic position. Faulkner's eulogizer notes that he held an affinity for "the older theological position," and notes that some of Faulkner's writings were considered to be "controversial". Faulkner was also part of the American Society of Church History, serving as its president in 1916.
John Algeo (1930–2019) was an American academic, trained as a linguist, and the author of one of the standard American textbooks on the history of the English language.
John Allan Wyeth was an American Confederate veteran and surgeon. Born and raised on a Southern plantation in Alabama, he served in the Confederate States Army and completed his medical studies in New York City and Europe. He became a surgeon in New York City, where he founded the New York Polyclinic Graduate Medical School and Hospital, a medical school. He served as the president of the American Medical Association in 1902. He was the author of a biography of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was a proponent of the annexation of Mexico by the United States.
John Allen Giles (1808–1884) was an English historian. He was primarily known as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon language and history. He revised Stevens' translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. He was a fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
John Allen Paulos is an American professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has gained fame as a writer and speaker on mathematics and the importance of mathematical literacy. Paulos writes about many subjects, especially of the dangers of mathematical innumeracy; that is, the layperson's misconceptions about numbers, probability, and logic.
John Almon was an English journalist and writer on political subjects, notable for his efforts to secure the right to publish reports on the debates in Parliament.
John Ames Mitchell was an American publisher, architect, artist and novelist. He was co-founder, editor, and publisher of the original Life magazine, in which he was a contributing artist, and the author of several novels.
