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John Barleycorn
John Barleycorn (Roud 164) is a traditional English-Scottish folk ballad personifying barley and its brewing into beer and whisky. First printed as a broadside in the 1620s, rewritten by Burns in 1786, and revived by Traffic (1970) and Steeleye Span (1972).
John Barleycorn Must Die
John Barleycorn Must Die is Traffic's third studio album, released by Island Records in July 1970 and recorded by the trio of Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Chris Wood.
John Barnard
John Barnard is an English racing car designer who introduced Formula 1's carbon fiber chassis and semi-automatic paddle-shift gearbox, and won the 1980 Indianapolis 500 with his Chaparral 2K.
John Barnes
John Barnes is a Jamaica-born former footballer, a celebrated left winger for Watford and Liverpool (1987-97, 407 games, 108 goals) and an England player with 79 caps; later manager of Celtic, Jamaica, and Tranmere Rovers.
John Barnett
John Thomas Barnett (1880-1918), Australian rugby union and rugby league forward, Wallaby number 73, won Olympic gold for Australasia at London 1908 and became a dual-code international in 1910.
John Barnett (whistleblower)
John Barnett, full name John Mitchell Barnett, was a Boeing quality manager who became a whistleblower in 2019 over unsafe production practices at the 787 plant in North Charleston.
John Barrasso
John Barrasso is an American physician and Republican politician who has represented Wyoming in the United States Senate since 2007 and serves as Senate Majority Whip in the 119th Congress.
John Barrowman
John Barrowman (born 1967, Glasgow) is a Scottish-American actor, singer, and presenter, best known as Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who and Torchwood, with West End, Broadway, recording, and book credits with sister Carole.
John Barry (composer)
John Barry Prendergast (1933–2011), York-born English film composer; scored 11 James Bond films and won five Oscars for Born Free, The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa, and Dances with Wolves.
John Barrymore
John Barrymore, born John Sidney Blyth, was an American stage and screen actor acclaimed for his Broadway Hamlet of 1922 and films such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
John Barth
John Barth (1930–April 2, 2024) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a leading postmodernist known for The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, and Lost in the Funhouse.
John Bartholomew Gough
John Bartholomew Gough (1817–1886) was an English-born American temperance lecturer who rose from destitute drunkard to international celebrity, delivering thousands of testimony lectures across the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
John Basilone
John Basilone (1916–1945), "Manila John," was a USMC gunnery sergeant, Medal of Honor winner at Guadalcanal's Henderson Field and posthumous Navy Cross recipient at Iwo Jima, the only enlisted Marine of WWII with both decorations.
John Baskerville
John Baskerville (1706–1775) was an English printer and typefounder of Birmingham who made his fortune in japanning before creating the Baskerville typeface and printing the 1763 Cambridge folio Bible, regarded as his masterpiece.
John Bassett Moore
John Bassett Moore (1860–1947) was an American international law scholar, a Columbia professor for over three decades, and a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1921 to 1928.
John Bate Cardale
John Bate Cardale (1802–1877) was an English solicitor who became the first-called apostle of the Catholic Apostolic Church, a millenarian movement, leading it for forty-five years.
John Bates Clark Medal
The John Bates Clark Medal is an award given by the American Economic Association to an economist under forty working in the United States, first awarded in 1947.
John Batman
John Batman (1801–1839) was an Australian explorer who led a 1835 expedition to the Yarra River and signed a Batman's Treaty with Kulin leaders. The agreement was voided.
John Battaglia
John David Battaglia (1955-2018), Dallas man executed by Texas on February 1, 2018 for the May 2001 shooting deaths of his daughters Mary Faith, 9, and Liberty, 6; case centered on competency-to-be-executed litigation.
John Bauer
John Bauer (1882–1918) was a Swedish painter and illustrator whose dark forest scenes of trolls and princesses for the annual Bland tomtar och troll shaped Swedish images of folklore.
John Beam
John Edward Beam (1959-2025), American football coach and Laney College athletic director in Oakland; head coach 2012-2024, 2018 CCCAA state champion, featured in Last Chance U season 5; fatally shot on campus November 13, 2025.
John Beasley (actor)
John Beasley was an American character actor known for his roles in Everwood and The Soul Man. He was born in Omaha in 1943 and died in 2023.
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (c. 1373–1410), eldest legitimated son of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, half brother of Henry IV, soldier and administrator, ancestor of Henry VII through Margaret Beaufort.
John Beck (actor)
John Beck (born 1943, Chicago) is an American retired actor, best known as Mark Graison on Dallas and for Rollerball, Sleeper, and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid; distinct from the 1876–1956 actor and writer John D. Beck.
John Beckett, Lord Beckett
John Beckett, Lord Beckett is a Scottish judge, Lord Justice Clerk since 4 February 2025, formerly Solicitor General for Scotland (2006), Senator of the College of Justice (2016), and Inner House judge (2023).
John Bede Polding
John Bede Polding (1794–1877) was an English Benedictine monk who became the first Roman Catholic bishop in Australia in 1835 and the first Archbishop of Sydney in 1842.
John Beieler
John Beieler is an American computational political scientist who works on automated political event data and was named the intelligence community's first Chief AI Officer in 2024.
John Beilein
John Beilein (born 1953, Burt, New York) is a basketball coach, Michigan head coach 2007-19 (278-150, 2013 and 2018 title games), later Cleveland Cavaliers coach (14-40, resigned 2020), National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Famer.
John Bel Edwards
John Bel Edwards (born 1966) is a Democratic attorney, West Point graduate, and former Army officer who served as Louisiana's 56th governor, 2016-2024, winning elections in 2015 and 2019 and expanding Medicaid.
John Bell (Scottish actor)
John Hunter Bell (born 1997, Paisley, Scotland) is a Scottish actor known as Bain in The Hobbit films and Young Ian Murray in Starz's Outlander; distinct from the Australian actor John Bell born 1940.