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John Fleming
John Francis Fleming (1881-1965), British civil servant and City Rifle Club shooter; won 1908 London Olympic gold in small-bore rifle moving target with 24/45, awarded on count back after a four-way tie. Distinct from Joseph Fleming, the 1904 American sprinter.
John Flett (Scottish geologist)
John Smith Flett (1869–1947) was a Scottish physician-turned-geologist who directed the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1920 to 1935 and studied the Old Red Sandstone of Orkney.
John Fogerty
John Fogerty (born 1945, Berkeley, California) is the American singer-songwriter-guitarist who led Creedence Clearwater Revival, wrote "Proud Mary" and "Fortunate Son," and later recorded Centerfield; he regained his publishing rights in 2023.
John Fonfara
John Fonfara is an American Democratic politician, a Connecticut state senator representing Hartford and Wethersfield who was first elected to the General Assembly in 1986 and chairs the Finance Committee.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015) was an American mathematician who proved the Nash equilibrium, made major contributions to geometry, and won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
John Force
John Force (born 1949), NHRA Funny Car drag racer; 16-time champion and winningest driver in NHRA history with 157 wins; retired November 2025 after a 2024 Richmond crash; founder of John Force Racing.
John Ford
John Ford (John Martin Feeney, 1894–1973), American film director born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, holder of a record four Best Director Oscars, maker of Stagecoach and The Searchers, Monument Valley westerns, first AFI Life Achievement Award recipient.
John Ford filmography
John Ford filmography: films directed by John Ford (Jack Ford), 1917-1966, over 135 titles including Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers, and the cavalry trilogy; five Academy Awards, none for a Western.
John Formella
John Formella is an American attorney and Republican who has served as Attorney General of New Hampshire since 2021 and was President of the National Association of Attorneys General in 2025.
John Forrest Dillon
John Forrest Dillon (1831-1914), Iowa Supreme Court chief justice and Eighth Circuit federal judge, wrote the 1872 treatise on municipal corporations and originated Dillon's rule of strict construction of local government power.
John Forrest National Park
John Forrest National Park, formerly Greenmount National Park, is Western Australia's first national park, proclaimed 30 November 1900 near Perth in the Darling Range, with the Swan View Tunnel, Jane Brook waterfalls and heritage-listed Depression-era landscapes.
John Forssman
John Forssman (1868–1947) was a Swedish bacteriologist and pathologist at Lund University who discovered the heterophile Forssman antigen in 1911 and was nominated for the 1938 Nobel Prize.
John Forsythe
John Forsythe, born John Lincoln Freund, was an American actor best known as Blake Carrington on Dynasty and the voice of Charlie Townsend on Charlie's Angels.
John Fortescue (judge)
John Fortescue, an English jurist and Chief Justice of the King's Bench, wrote influential works like The Governance of England. He explored the difference between absolute and limited monarchy.
John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), 52nd U.S. Secretary of State under Eisenhower (1953–1959), brother of CIA Director Allen Dulles; architect of SEATO, CENTO, massive retaliation, brinksmanship, and the Eisenhower Doctrine.
John Fowles
John Fowles (1926–2005), English novelist of The Collector, The Magus, and The French Lieutenant's Woman; Oxford-educated, lived reclusively at Lyme Regis, wrote existentialist, metafictional bestsellers and nature non-fiction.
John Fox (American football)
John Fox (born 1955) is an NFL coach, head coach of the Panthers, Broncos, and Bears (133–123), who led Carolina to Super Bowl XXXVIII and Denver to Super Bowl XLVIII, later a senior assistant with the Colts, Lions, and Bills.
John Foxe
John Foxe (1516/17–1587) was an English martyrologist and church historian whose Actes and Monuments, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, first printed in 1563, shaped English Protestantism.
John Foxx
John Foxx (Dennis Leigh) is an English electronic musician from Chorley, founder of Ultravox, solo synth-pop pioneer behind the 1980 album Metamatic, later ambient and piano works, and John Foxx and The Maths since 2011.
John Francis Daley
John Francis Daley (born 1985) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director, also known as Sam Weir in Freaks and Geeks and Lance Sweets in Bones. With Jonathan Goldstein he wrote Horrible Bosses and Spider-Man: Homecoming and directed Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
John Francis Dodge
John Francis Dodge, known as John F. Dodge, was an American automotive manufacturer who co-founded Dodge Brothers in 1914 and was an early Ford Motor Company shareholder.
John Frank Davidson
John Frank Davidson (1926–2019) was a British chemical engineer at Cambridge, the founding father of fluidization, who co-wrote the classic textbook Fluidised Particles in 1963.
John Frank Stevens
John Frank Stevens (1853–1943) was an American civil engineer who built the Great Northern Railway and served as chief engineer of the Panama Canal from 1905 to 1907.
John Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer (1930–2002), American film and television director of The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, Seconds, and Ronin; emerged from 1950s live TV, won four consecutive 1990s Emmys.
John Franklin
Sir John Franklin (1786–1847), British naval officer, Arctic explorer, and lieutenant-governor of Van Diemen's Land, led the 1845 Northwest Passage expedition in HMS Erebus and Terror; all 129 men died, and the wrecks were found in 2014 and 2016.
John Franklin (actor)
John Franklin (born 1959, Blue Island, Illinois; birth name John Paul Salapatek) is the American actor who played Isaac in Children of the Corn (1984) and Cousin Itt in The Addams Family films; later a teacher, returning in Hag (2014).
John Franklin III
John Franklin III (born 1994) is an American football player who moved from quarterback to receiver to defensive back at Florida State, East Mississippi CC, Auburn, and Florida Atlantic, appeared on Netflix's Last Chance U, and played one NFL game, for the 2019 Buccaneers.
John Franzese Jr.
John Franzese Jr. (born 1960, also Mat Pazzarelli) is a former Colombo crime family associate and son of underboss Sonny Franzese; he wore an FBI wire and became the first son of a New York mob boss to testify against his father, at the 2010 trial.
John Frederick Dewey
John Frederick Dewey, born 1937 in London, is a British and American structural geologist known for applying plate tectonics to mountain belts, above all the Caledonian and Appalachian systems.
John Frederick I of Saxony
John Frederick I (Johann Friedrich I, 1503–1554), called the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony 1532–1547, Lutheran leader of the Schmalkaldic League; lost the electorate to Maurice at Mühlberg 1547, refused the Augsburg Interim, died Duke of Saxony.