Johnny Briggs
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John Briggs may refer to:
- Johnny Briggs (cricketer)Johnny Briggs (cricketer)Johnny Briggs was a left arm spin bowler for Lancashire County Cricket Club between 1879 and 1900 who still stands as the second-highest wicket-taker in the county's history after Brian Statham...
(1862–1902), English cricketer - Johnny Briggs (actor)Johnny Briggs (actor)Johnny Briggs, MBE is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Mike Baldwin in the soap opera Coronation Street, in which he appeared from 1976 to 2006...
(born 1935), English actor who played Mike Baldwin in the British soap opera Coronation Street from 1976 to 2006 - Johnny Briggs (baseball)Johnny Briggs (baseball)John Edward Briggs is a former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Phillies , Milwaukee Brewers and Minnesota Twins...
(born 1944), American former baseball outfielder - John Briggs (baseball)John Briggs (baseball)Jonathan Tift Briggs is a retired American professional baseball player, a former pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for five seasons for the Chicago Cubs from 1956 to 1958, the Cleveland Indians from 1959 to 1960, and the Kansas City Athletics in 1960...
(born 1934), American baseball pitcher - Jonny BriggsJonny BriggsJonny Briggs is a Children's BBC television programme first broadcast in 1985. It revolves around the exploits of a young boy, the eponymous hero, his pet dog, Razzle, and his eccentric family members: Mam and Dad, older sister Rita and older brothers Albert and Humph . Another older sister is...
, eponymous character in a BBC children's television programme, first broadcast in 1985 - Jon BriggsJon BriggsJon Briggs was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. His work spans Radio, TV, Voice-Over, Training and Conferences. He started in radio in 1981 as tea boy and progressed to the breakfast show with BBC Radio Oxford aged 19....
, English voice actor and journalist - John Briggs (politician)John Briggs (politician)John V. Briggs is a retired California state politician who served in the California State Assembly and the California State Senate. He is perhaps best known for sponsoring Proposition 6 in 1978, also known as the Briggs Initiative, which attempted to remove all gay or lesbian school employees or...
, American politician - John Briggs (author)John Briggs (author)John Briggs, Distinguished Professor and Co-Chair of the Department of English Language, Comparative Literature, and Writing at Western Connecticut State University, is co-author of Seven Life Lessons of Chaos with the physicist David Peat...
, American author and university lecturer - John Briggs (Roman Catholic Bishop)John Briggs (Roman Catholic Bishop)John Briggs was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first Bishop of Beverley from 1850 to 1860.-Early life:...
(1789–1861), bishop and Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District of England - John Briggs (activist), activist from Gainesville, Florida, and member of the Gainesville EightGainesville EightThe Gainesville Eight were a group of anti-Vietnam War activists indicted on charges of conspiracy to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida. All eight defendants were acquitted....
group in the 1960s - John Briggs (racing driver), Australian racing driver and race team owner
- John Joseph BriggsJohn Joseph BriggsJohn Joseph Briggs , naturalist and topographer, was born in the village of Kings Newton , Derbyshire on 6 March 1819...
(1819-1876), writer - John Briggs (officer)John Briggs (officer)John Briggs was an Indian officer.Briggs entered the Madras infantry in 1801, He took part in both the Mahratta wars of the present century, serving in the campaign which ended that eventful struggle as a political officer under Sir John Malcolm, whom he had previously accompanied on his mission...
- John Thomas BriggsJohn Thomas BriggsSir John Thomas Briggs , was accountant-general of the Royal Navy.He came from an old Norfolk family, a direct descendant of Dr. William Briggs, and, in a collateral line related to Professor Henry Briggs, was born in London on 4 June 1781....