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John Devitt
John Thomas Devitt (1937-2023), Australian freestyle sprint swimmer; two Olympic golds (1956 relay, 1960 100m), 14 world records; his controversial 1960 win over Lance Larson spurred electronic timing.
John Exley, Jr.
John Onins Exley, Jr. (1867-1938), American rower for Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club; stroke of the eights that won Olympic gold at Paris 1900 and St. Louis 1904, nicknamed the Iron Man.
John Fenning
John Reginald Keith Fenning (1885–1955), British rower of Leander Club; won 1908 Olympic gold in coxless pairs with Gordon Thomson and silver in coxless fours, later a London Hospital doctor.
John Ferris
John Edward Ferris (1949-2020), American swimmer, 1968 Mexico City Olympic bronze medalist in the 200 m butterfly and 200 m individual medley, and 1967 world record-holder in the 200 m butterfly (2:06.0).
John Geiger
John Francis Geiger (1873-1956), American rower for Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club; won gold in the men's eights at the 1900 Paris Olympics in 6:07.8, beating Belgium by six seconds; distinct from John D. Geiger.
John Gretton, Jr.
John Gretton, Jr. (1867–1947), British yachtsman and Conservative MP, won two sailing golds aboard Scotia at the 1900 Paris Olympics, the only person to win an Olympic title while serving in Parliament; later 1st Baron Gretton.
John Hargis
John Lawson Hargis (born 1975), American butterfly and backstroke swimmer; 1996 Olympic gold in the 4x100 m medley relay (heats), 1998 Worlds silver, Auburn All-American, later Penn State and Pittsburgh head coach.
John Hencken
John Hencken, an American competition swimmer, competed for Santa Clara Swim Club and Stanford University. He won multiple Olympic medals and set 13 world records.
John Huettner
John R. Huettner (1906–1970), American sailor, California Yacht Club; won 8 metre class gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics aboard Angelita; later a Los Angeles attorney and uncredited film extra.
John Hunter
John Hunter (John Andrew Hunter), born 1943 in Christchurch, New Zealand rower with Wellington Rowing Club; won gold in the men's eight at Munich 1972 (6:08.94) after placing fourth at Mexico City 1968. Not the surgeon or admiral of the same name.
John Jarvis
John Arthur Jarvis (1872-1933), English swimmer and water polo player; won 1,000m and 4,000m freestyle and water polo gold at Paris 1900, plus 1906 Intercalated medals; 108 championships, Jarvis-Nuttall kick.
John Kinsella
John Pitann Kinsella, American freestyle swimmer from Oak Park, Illinois; 1968 Olympic 1500m silver, 1972 relay gold, first under 16 minutes for 1500m (1970), and World Professional Marathon Champion 1975-1979 who swam the English Channel in 9:10.
John Konrads
John Konrads (Jānis Konrads, 1942-2021), Latvian-born Australian swimmer, 1960 Olympic 1500m freestyle champion with two Rome bronzes; with sister Ilsa set 37 world records as the Konrads Kids.
John Mackenzie
John Mackenzie (1876–1949), Scottish yachtsman of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club; won 1908 Olympic gold in the 12-metre class aboard Hera; also the name of a 1908 Olympic wrestler, a 1956 Canadian hockey bronze medalist, a South African missionary, and a Canadian bacteriologist.
John Miller
John Miller: name shared by several athletes, chiefly John Lester Miller (1903-1965), American Yale rower, 1924 Paris Olympic gold in men's eights; also an Olympic weightlifter, champion wrestler, and Australian jockey.
John Moffet
John Clifford Moffet (born 1964) is an American breaststroke swimmer, 1980 and 1984 Olympian, 100 m breaststroke world record holder (1:02.13), and later a three-time Emmy-winning TV producer for The Amazing Race.
John Monckton
John James Monckton (1938-2017), Australian backstroke swimmer; silver in 100 m backstroke at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, seventh at Rome 1960, beaten both times by David Theile; set 100 m and 200 m backstroke world records in 1958.
John Mulcahy
John Mulcahy (John Joseph Francis Mulcahy, 1876-1942), American Olympic rower; with Bill Varley won 1904 St. Louis gold in double sculls and silver in coxless pairs; founder of Fordham rowing.
John Naber
John Phillips Naber, American backstroke swimmer, won four golds in world-record time plus a silver at Montreal 1976, set six world records, won 10 NCAA titles for USC, and took the 1977 Sullivan Award.
John Nelson
John Nelson (John Maurer Nelson, born 1948, Chicago) is an American freestyle swimmer, Yale class of 1970, with three Olympic medals: 1964 silver 1500 m freestyle, 1968 bronze 200 m freestyle, and 1968 gold 4x200 m relay; he held the 400 m freestyle world record (4:11.8) for one day in 1966.
John Ørsted Hansen
John Ørsted Hansen (1938–2022), Danish rower of Roforeningen KVIK, Copenhagen; won gold in the men's coxless fours at Tokyo 1964 with Petersen, Helmudt, and Hasløv, plus 1964 European silver and 1966 Henley.
John Osborn
John Osborn (born 1945) is a British Olympic sailor who won gold in the Tornado catamaran class at the 1976 Montreal Games as crew with his brother-in-law Reg White; both received the MBE in 1977.
John Rhodes
John Edward Rhodes (1870–1947), British Army officer and sailor; won 8-metre class gold aboard Cobweb at the 1908 London Olympics; not the baseball player, rodeo roper, or Arizona congressman of the same name.
John Sayre
John Anthony Sayre (1936-2023), American rower, University of Washington class of 1958, won Olympic gold in the coxless fours at Rome 1960 and the 1959 Pan-American Games with the Lake Washington Rowing Club.
John Smith (olympedia 121633)
John Smith (Olympedia 121633), South African rower born 1990 in Germiston, TuksSport Pretoria; Olympic gold 2012 lightweight coxless four, also raced 2016, 2020, 2024; distinct from sprinter and wrestler John Smiths.
John Stack
John Charles Stack (1924–1997), American rower from Camden, New Jersey; bow seat of the University of California eight that won gold in the men's eights at the 1948 London Olympics; later an x-ray engineer.
John Wallace
John Wallace: name of two Olympians, US sailor John Donald Wallace (1903–1990, 6-metre Mystery, Berlin 1936) and Canadian rower John William Wallace (b. 1962, Barcelona 1992 eights gold).
Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Weissmuller (Peter Johann Weissmüller, 1904–1984), Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor; five Olympic swimming golds, first under 1 minute for 100 m freestyle, played Tarzan in 12 films 1932–1948.
Johnny White
Johnny White (John Galbraith White, 1916-1997), American rower and University of Washington metallurgical engineering graduate; won gold in the men's eights at the 1936 Berlin Olympics with the 'Boys in the Boat' crew, later Bethlehem Steel sales general manager.
Joke de Korte
Joke de Korte (Johanna Catharina de Korte-Vuijk, born 1935) is a Dutch swimmer, 4th in the 1952 Olympic 100 m backstroke, double 1954 European silver medalist, and 4×100 m medley relay world record holder.