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John Cooper (musician)
John Cooper (musician) is the American lead vocalist, bassist, and songwriter of the Christian rock band Skillet, founded in Memphis in 1996; two-time Grammy nominee, author of Awake & Alive to Truth and Wimpy, Weak, and Woke, host of the Cooper Stuff Podcast.
John Cooper (serial killer)
John William Cooper (born 1944, Milford Haven) is the Welsh serial killer convicted in 2011 of the 1985 Thomas and 1989 Dixon double murders, caught via Operation Ottawa, Bullseye footage, and DNA and fibre evidence; his convictions remain under CCRC review.
John Cooper Clarke
John Cooper Clarke (born 1949, Salford), the 'punk poet' and 'Bard of Salford', rose on the late-1970s punk scene, scored a 1979 Top 40 hit with Gimmix! Play Loud, and gained new fame via Arctic Monkeys' I Wanna Be Yours; first poet to headline a UK arena (2025).
John Corabi
John Corabi (born 1959, Philadelphia) is an American hard rock singer and guitarist who fronted Mötley Crüe from 1992 to 1996 on their gold-selling 1994 self-titled album, and later sang with The Scream, Union, ESP, and The Dead Daisies before releasing his first full-length solo album of originals, New Day, in 2026.
John Corbett
John Corbett (born 1962, Wheeling, WV) is an American actor and country singer, not the virologist, writer, or boxer of the same name; known for Northern Exposure's Chris Stevens, Aidan in Sex and the City, and Ian Miller in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
John Corbett (chemist)
John Corbett (1926–2013) was an American inorganic chemist and Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, known for six decades of work on metal-rich solid-state compounds, Zintl phases, and metal clusters.
John Cornforth
John Cornforth, also known as Sir John Warcup Cornforth, was an Australian organic chemist who won half of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on enzyme stereochemistry.
John Cornyn
John Cornyn, born 1952, Republican U.S. senator from Texas 2003–2027, former Texas Supreme Court justice and attorney general, Senate whip 2013–2019, top-ranked GOP lawmaker; lost the 2026 primary to Ken Paxton.
John Corvinus
John Corvinus (Corvin János), born in 1473, was the illegitimate son of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and his designated heir, defeated in his bid for the throne in 1490.
John Cotton
John Cotton (1584 or 1585 – 1652) was an English Puritan minister and theologian, vicar of Boston, Lincolnshire, then teacher of the First Church of Boston, Massachusetts.
John Couch Adams
John Couch Adams (1819–1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer at Cambridge who independently predicted Neptune's position and worked on the Moon's motion and the Leonid meteors.
John Cowan
John Cowan is an American politician and Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Georgia's 11th Congressional District in the 2026 election, running on health care and the economy.
John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) was a British novelist and itinerant lecturer in America who wrote Wolf Solent and A Glastonbury Romance, and is ranked among the great 20th-century novelists.
John Crane
John Crane is a British engineering company founded in Chicago in 1917 that makes mechanical seals, couplings, and filtration equipment; it has been part of Smiths Group since 2000.
John Craven
John Craven (born 1940, Leeds) is an English broadcaster and OBE who presented BBC's John Craven's Newsround from 4 April 1972 to 1989, over 3,000 editions, and has fronted Countryfile since 1989.
John Creedy
John Creedy (born 1949) is a New Zealand economist and professor at Victoria University of Wellington, known for tax microsimulation and the history of economics.
John Crimber
John Crimber (born 2005, Decatur, Texas) is an American PBR bull rider for the Florida Freedom; 2026 PBR World Champion, second-youngest ever, two-time Teams MVP, son of Paulo Crimber.
John Crist (comedian)
John Crist (born 1984) is an American stand-up comedian from Lilburn, Georgia, known for clean comedy about evangelical Christian culture, viral sketches, the 2019 harassment allegations and hiatus, and specials including Emotional Support (2025).
John Croisant
John Croisant is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Oklahoma's 1st District in 2026, facing Republican incumbent Kevin Hern.
John Crome
John Crome (1768–1821), known as Old Crome, was an English landscape painter and etcher of Norwich who founded the Norwich School and painted local scenes like Mousehold Heath.
John Cronin (Massachusetts politician)
John J. Cronin is an American Democratic politician who has represented the Worcester and Middlesex District in the Massachusetts Senate since 2020, after serving as a U.S. Army Infantry Officer.
John Crosbie
John Crosbie (John Carnell Crosbie, 1931–2020), Newfoundland politician; St. John's West MP, Clark finance minister (1979), Mulroney trade and fisheries minister; announced the July 2, 1992 northern cod moratorium; later MUN chancellor and 12th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.
John Crowley (author)
John Crowley (1942–2026) was an American fantasy and science fiction author best known for Little, Big and the four-volume Ægypt cycle, and a documentary screenwriter.
John Crown
John Crown is an Irish medical oncologist at St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, known for breast cancer drug trials and for founding the national trials group ICORG, now Cancer Trials Ireland.
John Cruickshank
John Alexander Cruickshank (1920-2025), Scottish RAFVR Catalina pilot and banker, last surviving Second World War Victoria Cross recipient, awarded the VC for sinking a U-boat on 17 July 1944 despite 72 wounds.
John Cullinane
John Cullinane is an American software entrepreneur who founded Cullinane Corporation, later Cullinet Software, in Massachusetts in 1968, the first software company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
John Cullum
John Cullum (born 1930, Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American stage and television actor, two-time Tony winner for Shenandoah and On the Twentieth Century, known as Holling Vincoeur on Northern Exposure.
John Cuneo
John Cuneo (John Bruce Cuneo, 1928–2020), Australian sailor and 1972 Munich Olympic gold medallist in the Dragon class with Tom Anderson and John Shaw; also 1968 Olympian, 1974 America's Cup tactician, and OAM recipient.
John Cunningham McLennan
John Cunningham McLennan (1867–1935) was a Canadian physicist who led the University of Toronto physics laboratory and identified the auroral green line as emission from atomic oxygen.
John Curran (Illinois politician)
John Curran is an American Republican politician and attorney who has led the Illinois Senate Republicans as Minority Leader since 2023, representing the 41st District since 2017.