John Knight
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John Knight is the name of:
- John Knight (artist) (b. 1945), artist
- John Knight (baseball) (1885–1965), American baseball player
- John A. KnightJohn A. KnightJohn Allen Knight was a minister in the Church of the Nazarene, general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene, president of Mount Vernon Nazarene College , and editor of the Herald of Holiness, now known as Holiness Today . He died in Daytona Beach, Florida.- References :...
(1931–2009), general superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene - John George KnightJohn George KnightJohn George Knight , was an architect and administrator of the Northern Territory, Australia.-Early life:John George Knight was born in London the son of John Knight, a stone and marble merchant...
(1826–1892), administrator of the Northern Territory - John S. KnightJohn S. KnightJohn Shively Knight was an American newspaper publisher and editor.He was born in Bluefield, West Virginia to Charles Landon Knight and Clara Scheifly. He attended Cornell University but never graduated, leaving early to enlist in the Army. While at Cornell he was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa...
(1894–1981), newspaper publisher and editor - John Knight (footballer)John Knight (footballer)John George Knight was an English footballer who played for Casuals, Corinthian and Tottenham Hotspur.- Football career :...
(1902–1990), English footballer - John Knight, former drummer of the California punk rock band D.I.
- John Knight (judge)John Knight (judge)John Knight was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was President pro tempore of the New York State Senate from 1925 to 1931, and was later a United States federal judge.-Life:...
(1871–1955), former judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York - John Knight (Royal Navy officer)John Knight (Royal Navy officer)Sir John Knight, KCB was a senior British Royal Navy officer during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries most noted for his activities as a post captain during the American and French Revolutionary Wars...
(1747–1831), Royal Navy admiral - John Knight I (1613–1683), English MP for BristolBristol (UK Parliament constituency)Bristol was a two member constituency, used to elect members to the House of Commons in the Parliaments of England , Great Britain and the United Kingdom . The constituency existed until Bristol was divided into single member constituencies in 1885.-Boundaries:The historic port city of Bristol, is...
, 1660–1681 - John Knight II (died 1718), English MP for Bristol, 1685–1691
- John Knight (d. 1733) (c. 1686–1733), MP for several constituencies
- John Knight (Australian politician)John Knight (Australian politician)John William Knight was an Australian politician. He represented the Australian Capital Territory in the Senate, for the Liberal Party of Australia, from 1975 until his death in 1981....
(1943–1981), Australian Senator for Australian Capital Territory, 1975–1981 - John Buxton KnightJohn Buxton KnightJohn William Buxton Knight , English landscape painter, was born at Sevenoaks, KentHe started as a schoolmaster, but painting was his hobby, and he subsequently devoted himself to it. In 1861 he had his first picture hung at the Royal Academy...
(1843–1908), English landscape painter - John Gally KnightJohn Gally KnightJohn Gally Knight was an English barrister who served in the House of Commons from 1784 to 1796.He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Aldborough at a by-election in January 1784, and held the seat until the 1796 general election, which he did not contest.He was born John Gally, but...
(c. 1740–1804), English barrister - John Henry KnightJohn Henry KnightJohn Henry Knight , from Farnham, was a wealthy engineer, landowner and inventor. With the help of the engineer George Parfitt, he built Britain’s first petrol-powered motor vehicle...
(1847–1917), engineer, landowner and inventor - John James KnightJohn James KnightJohn James Knight was an Australian journalist and newspaper editor.Knight was born at Shelton, Staffordshire, England, the son of James Knight, potter and printer, and his wife Louisa, née Blagg. Knight was taken to New Zealand whilst young and at 11 years of age left school to work in the...
(1863–1927), Australian journalist - John Lowden KnightJohn Lowden KnightJohn Lowden Knight was a professor, university administrator, and a Methodist theolgian. He was President of Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska; the fourth president of Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio; and the eighth president of the Wesley Theological Seminary, in Washington,...
(1915–2001) - John W. Knight, co-founder of CourseInfo LLCCourseInfo LLCCourseInfo LLC, one of the two companies forming Blackboard Inc. was founded in 1997 by Dan Cane and Stephen Gilfus while at Cornell University. They joined together to officially form the partnership known as CourseInfo and developed the company into a small course management software provider....
- John Knight, author of The Story of My Psychoanalysis (McGraw-Hill, 1950), is a pseudonymPseudonymA pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
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