John Hunt
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John Hunt may refer to:
- John Hunt (Quaker exile)John Hunt (Quaker exile)John Hunt was one of the Virginia Exiles, a group of Philadelphia Quakers that were forcibly exiled to Winchester, Virginia during the Revolutionary War.John Hunt was a merchant and Quaker minister from London, England...
(1712–1778), Quaker minister, originally from London, England, and one of the "Virginia Exiles" - John Hunt (Quaker minister)John Hunt (Quaker minister)John Hunt was a prominent Quaker minister and journalist from Moorestown Township, New Jersey. He kept a diary, most of which has been preserved, from 1770 to 1824. The diary relates Hunt's personal activities, concerns and beliefs. It is also a concise source of primary evidence that documents...
(1740–1824), Quaker minister and journalist from Moorestown, New Jersey - John Hunt (gentleman)John Hunt (gentleman)Sir John Hunt , was an English gentleman of Rutland.Hunt was the second son of John Hunt, esq., of Lyndon, one of the ancient family of Le Hunt. His mother was Amy, daughter of Sir Thomas Cave of Stanford, Northamptonshire...
(1550–1615) - John Hunt (1750–1822), Revolutionary War veteran for whom the city of Huntsville, AlabamaHuntsville, AlabamaHuntsville is a city located primarily in Madison County in the central part of the far northern region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County. The city extends west into neighboring Limestone County. Huntsville's population was 180,105 as of the 2010 Census....
is named - John Hunt (publisher) (1775–1848), printer and publisher
- John Hunt MorganJohn Hunt MorganJohn Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general and cavalry officer in the American Civil War.Morgan is best known for Morgan's Raid when, in 1863, he and his men rode over 1,000 miles covering a region from Tennessee, up through Kentucky, into Indiana and on to southern Ohio...
(1825–1864), general of a Confederate cavalry troop in the American Civil War - John Horbury HuntJohn Horbury HuntJohn Horbury Hunt was a Canadian-born architect who worked in Sydney, Australia and rural New South Wales from 1863.-Life and career:...
(1838–1904), Canadian-born Australian architect - John T. HuntJohn T. HuntJohn Thomas Hunt was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Hunt attended the common schools.In his youth was a professional ball player and umpire....
(1860–1916), U.S. Representative from Missouri - John Hunt (antiquarian)John Hunt (antiquarian)John Hunt was a historian, antiquarian, and collector. Together with his wife Gertrude, he amassed the collection that today forms the basis of the Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland. He encouraged Lord Gort to restore Bunratty Castle. He is commemorated by a bust in the castle because of this...
(1900–1976), Irish antiquarian and collector - John E. HuntJohn E. HuntJohn Edmund Hunt was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1975.-Early life:...
(1908–1989), New Jersey politician - John Hunt, Baron HuntJohn Hunt, Baron HuntBrigadier Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt KG, PC, CBE, DSO, was a British army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest.-Early life and career:...
(1910–1998), leader of the 1953 British expedition to climb Mount Everest - John Hunt (oceanographer)John Hunt (oceanographer)John M. Hunt was a geologist, chemist, and oceanographer. He worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution beginning in 1968. His specialty was petroleum geochemistry, and he wrote the standard textbook Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology....
(1918–2005), marine scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - John Hunt, Baron Hunt of TanworthJohn Hunt, Baron Hunt of TanworthJohn Joseph Benedict Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth, GCB, MC, KCPO was a British civil servant and politician....
(1919–2008), British politician and Secretary of the Cabinet - John Hunt (British politician)John Hunt (British politician)Sir John Leonard Hunt is a retired British Conservative Party politician.Hunt was educated at Dulwich College and became a stockbroker. He served as a councillor on Bromley Borough Council 1953-61, then became an alderman in 1961, joining the new London Borough of Bromley in 1964...
(born 1929) - John Hunt (psychiatric patient)John Hunt (psychiatric patient)John Hunt , an Irish citizen, is a writer, artist and an involuntarily detained psychiatric patient. The conditions of Hunt's detention have been the subject of a sustained campaign by his former partner and mother of his child Gráinne Humphrys...
(born 1981) - John Dixon HuntJohn Dixon HuntJohn Dixon Hunt is an English-born landscape historian. His work particularly focuses on the time between the turn of the seventeenth through the end of the 18th centuries in France and England. Professor Hunt began his academic career teaching English literature...
(born 1936), European-born landscape historian - John Wesley HuntJohn Wesley HuntJohn Wesley Hunt was a prominent businessman and early civic leader in Lexington, Kentucky. He was one of the first millionaires west of the Allegheny Mountains....
(1773–1849), businessman and early civic leader in Lexington, Kentucky - Johnny HuntJohnny HuntJohnny M. Hunt is an evangelical Christian pastor, author, and former President of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is currently the senior pastor of First Baptist Church Woodstock, in Woodstock, Georgia.- Early life :...
(born 1952), Christian pastor and author - Joshua FrenchJoshua FrenchJoshua Olav Daniel Hodne French is a Norwegian- and British security contractor arrested in May 2009 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and convicted of murdering his driver by gunshot and of espionage for Norway...
(alias John Hunt, born 1982), former Norwegian soldier - John Hunt (Australian politician)
- John Hunt, a fictional character in Willard Price's Adventure seriesThe Adventure Series (Willard Price)The "Adventure" series is a collection of children's adventure novels by Canadian-born American author Willard Price. The fourteen-book series chronicles the exploits of budding teenage zoologists Hal and Roger Hunt, as they travel around the world capturing exotic and dangerous animals for their...
- Jackie HuntJackie HuntJohn Seva "Jackie" Hunt was an American football fullback/halfback. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2004. He played professionally with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League in 1945....
(1920–1991), American football player with Chicago Bears - Jack HuntJack HuntJack Hunt is an American football safety who is currently a free agent. He most recently played for the Miami Dolphins.-High school career:Hunt played football at Ruston High School in Ruston, Louisiana....
(born 1981), American football safety, free agent who was previously with the Miami Dolphins
See also
- Jon HuntJon HuntJonathan Hunt, aka Jon Hunt, is a British Estate Agent who founded the Estate Agency, Foxtons.He has a country mansion in Suffolk called Heveningham Hall. He now owns Ocubis, the London serviced office business...
, British estate agent - Jonathan Hunt (disambiguation)