John Bennett
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Arts & entertainment
- John Bennett (actor)John Bennett (actor)John Bennett was an English actor. Born in Beckenham, Kent, he was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire, then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, followed by a wide Rep experience including Bromley, Bristol Old Vic, Dundee, Edinburgh Festival and Watford before going to...
(1928–2005), British actor from the film The Fifth Element - John Bennett (composer)John Bennett (composer)John Bennett was an English organist and composer.-Biography:Very little is known about him. The date of his birth is unknown. He died in September 1784, after serving as organist at St. Dionis Backchuch Fenchurch, London for over thirty years. He was a pupil of Johann Christoph Pepusch...
(c. 1735–1784), British composer and organist - John Bennett (drummer)John Bennett (drummer)John Bennett is a British drummer, and a founding member of the progressive doom death metal band, The Prophecy. With The Prophecy, Bennett has completed several tours of Europe and the United States, and has also recorded three albums....
, drummer of the UK doom metal band The Prophecy - Johnny BennettJohnny BennettJohnny Bennett is an English-born Irish actor who played the part of the prodigious Liam Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless. He took over from Joseph Furnace from series 3 onwards and continued to play the role until series 8. He lives in Manchester but comes from an Irish family.-External links:...
(born 1998), British actor - John Aaron Bennett, actor known for the 1991 TV series I'll Fly AwayI'll Fly Away (TV series)I'll Fly Away is a television series set during the late 1950s and early 1960s, in an unspecified Southern U.S. state. It aired on NBC from 1991 to 1993 and starred Regina Taylor as Lilly Harper, a black housekeeper for district attorney Forrest Bedford and his family...
Politics
- John Bennett (Australian politician)John Bennett (Australian politician)John Myles Bennett is a former Australian politician. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and held a Bachelor of Law. In the 1986 state election, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Liberal member for Denison, and he served as a minister from 1986 to 1989. Bennett resigned from...
(born 1942), Tasmanian politician - John Bennett (Canadian politician)John Bennett (Canadian politician)John Bennett was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Stormont in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal-Patrons of Industry member from 1894 to 1898....
(1832–1912), Ontario farmer and political figure - John B. BennettJohn B. BennettJohn Bonifas Bennett was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Bennett was born in Garden, Michigan, attended the public schools there and graduated from Watersmeet High School...
(1904–1964), U.S. Representative from Michigan - John O. BennettJohn O. BennettJohn O. Bennett III is a former New Jersey Republican politician who served as State Senator, President of the State Senate, and Acting Governor of New Jersey during the course of his career.-Education:...
(born 1948), state senator and acting governor of New Jersey - John Bennett (MP), British Member of Parliament for South WiltshireSouth Wiltshire (UK Parliament constituency)South Wiltshire, formally known as the Southern division of Wiltshire or Wiltshire Southern was a county constituency in the county of Wiltshire in South West England...
- John Bennett (Serjeant at Law)John Bennett (Serjeant at Law)John Bennett was a British politician.He was a Member of Parliament for Morpeth from 1708 to 1710.He died aged approximately 75....
Sport
- John Bennett (athlete)John Bennett (athlete)John Dale Bennett was an American athlete who competed mainly in the Long Jump.He competed for the United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the Long Jump where he won the silver medal....
(born 1930), long jumper, Olympic silver medal winner (1956) - John Bennett (coach), Canadian football
- John Bennett (Derbyshire cricketer)John Bennett (Derbyshire cricketer)John William Bennett was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1895 and 1896.Bennett was born in Lower Whitfield, Glossop, the son of Hiram Bennett a cotton spinner, and he also worked in the cotton industry...
(1864–1928), English cricketer - John Bennett (diver)John Bennett (diver)John Bennett was a British SCUBA diver who is best known for setting a world record by becoming the first person to deep dive below a depth of 1,000 feet on self contained breathing apparatus on 6 November 2001....
(1959–2004), first scuba diver beyond 1,000 feet - John Bennett (field hockey) (1885–1973), British Olympic field hockey player
- John Bennett (footballer)John Bennett (footballer)John Bennett was an English professional footballer who played as a full back. He made 76 Football League appearances.-Playing career:...
(born 1946), former professional footballer in England - John Bennett (Hampshire cricketer)John Bennett (Hampshire cricketer)John Bennett was an English professional cricketer who made 61 known appearances in major cricket matches between 1797 and 1818...
(1777–1857), cricketer - John Bennett (rugby league)John Bennett (rugby league)John "Jack" Bennett is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Rochdale Hornets, and Wigan, playing at , i.e...
, rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s for Great Britain, England, Rochdale Hornets, and Wigan - John Bennett (hurler)John Bennett (hurler)John Bennett is an Irish retired sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Blackrock and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1960 until 1968....
(born 1934), Irish retired hurler
Other
- John Bennett (author)John Bennett (author)John Bennett wrote and illustrated children's books. He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. He wrote The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo with Seventeen other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes, which won the Newbery Honor in 1929.-Works:* Master Skylark: A Story of Shakespeare's Time * The Pigtail...
(1865–1956), author and illustrator of children's books - John Bennett (educator)John Bennett (educator)John Leslie Bennett is an Australian educator. He is Conjoint Professor of Education at the University of New South Wales. Bennett was Chief Executive of the Office of the Board of Studies from 2002 to 2009....
(born 1948), Australian education administrator - John A. BennettJohn A. BennettJohn Arthur Bennett was a Private First Class in the United States Army who was convicted and executed for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl. He is the last person to have been executed by the United States military.Bennett was born in Virginia to a family of African...
(1935–1961), as of 2008 the last person executed by the US military - John C. BennettJohn C. BennettJohn Cook Bennett was an American physician and a ranking and influential—but short-lived—leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, who acted as second-in-command to Joseph Smith, Jr., for a brief period in the early 1840s....
(1804–1867), American physician and leader in the Latter Day Saint movement - John G. BennettJohn G. BennettJohn Godolphin Bennett, was a British mathematician, scientist, technologist, industrial research director, and author. He is perhaps best known for his many books on psychology and spirituality, and particularly the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff...
(1897–1974), British mathematician, scientist, technologist, industrial research director, mystic and author - John M. BennettJohn M. BennettJohn M. Bennett is an American experimental text, sound, and visual poet.- Writing and publishing :As well as steadily producing and distributing his own work, Bennett, through "Luna Bisonte Prods", a small press founded in 1974, has published thousands of limited edition items by writers who...
(born 1942), American poet - John Makepeace BennettJohn Makepeace BennettEmeritus Professor John Makepeace Bennett AO, FTSE, was an early Australian computer scientist. He was Australia's first professor of computer science and the founding president of the Australian Computer Society...
(1921–2010), Australian pioneer of computer science - John Tuson BennettJohn Tuson BennettJohn Tucson Bennett is a solicitor and president of the Australian Civil Liberties Union, who is most notable for being a leader in the Holocaust denial movement in Australia....
(born 1944), Australian solicitor and legal historian involved in holocaust denial - John George BennettJohn George BennettJohn George Bennett was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana from 1945 to 1957....
(1891–1957), American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church - John Hughes BennettJohn Hughes BennettJohn Hughes Bennett was an English physician, physiologist and pathologist. His main contribution to medicine has been the first description of leukemia as a blood disorder...
(1812–1875), English physician, physiologist and pathologist - John Joseph BennettJohn Joseph BennettJohn Joseph Bennett was a British botanist.Bennett was assistant keeper of the Banksian herbarium and library at the British Museum from 1827 to 1858, when he succeeded Robert Brown as Keeper of the Botanical Department. He retired in 1870. He was secretary of the Linnean Society of London from...
(1801–1876), British botanist - John Wheeler-BennettJohn Wheeler-BennettSir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett , GCVO, CMG, OBE, FBA, FRSL was a conservative English historian of German and diplomatic history, and the official biographer of King George VI.-Early career:...
(1902–1975), English historian of German and diplomatic history
See also
- John Bennet (disambiguation)John Bennet (disambiguation)John Bennet was an English composerJohn Bennet is also the name of:*John Bennet , English judge and MP accused of corruption*John Bennet , English Methodist preacher...
- Jonathan Bennett (disambiguation)Jonathan Bennett (disambiguation)Jonathan Bennett may refer to:*Jonathan Bennett , British philosopher*Jonathan Bennett , American actor*Jonathan Bennett , Creator of AutoIt-See also:*John Bennett...
- Bennett (name)Bennett (name)Bennett is an English and Irish language surname derived from the medieval given name Benedict . The oldest public record of the surname is dated 1208 in County Durham...