Famous People with Name John

John Kirk Townsend            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Kirk Townsend: was an American naturalist, ornithologist and collector.He developed an interest in natural history in general and bird collecting in particular. In 1833 he was invited by the botanist Thomas Nuttall to join him on Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth's second expedition across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Townsend collected a number of birds new to science, including the Mountain Plover, Vaux's Swift, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Townsend's Warbler and Sage Thrasher.

John Craig Venter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Craig Venter: an American biologist, and businessman.[1] Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research and was instrumental in mapping the human genome.[2] He was listed on Time Magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.Venter began his academic career at a community college, College of San Mateo in California. He received his bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1972, and his Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology in 1975 — both from the University of California, San Diego. In San Diego, he married former Ph.D. candidate, Barbara Rae.[6][7] After working as a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he joined the National Institutes of Health in 1984. In Buffalo, he divorced Dr. Rae-Venter and married his student, Claire M. Fraser,[7] and remained married to Ms. Fraser until 2005.[

John Bates Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Bates Clark: was an American neo-classical economist. He was one of the pioneers of the marginalist revolution and opponent to the Institutionalist school of economics, and spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University.Clark was born and raised in Providence, R. I. and graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts at the age of 25. From 1872 to 1875 he attended the University of Zurich and the University of Heidelberg where he studied under Karl Knies (a leader of the German Historical School). Early in his career Clark's writings reflected his German Socialist background and showed him as a critic of capitalism. Upon his return to the United States, Clark taught economics, history and a whole series of other subjects at Carleton (where he taught Thorstein Veblen)

John Maurice Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Maurice Clark: was an American economist whose work combined the rigor of traditional economic analysis with an "institutionalist" attitude.Clark studied at Amherst College, graduating in 1905, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1910. He was an Instructor at Colorado College (1908-1910) and at Amherst College (1910-1915). In 1915 he joined the faculty of political economy at the University of Chicago. He accept a professorship at Columbia in 1926, where he remained until he retired in 1957.[1]Throughout his career Clark was concerned with the dynamics of a market economy, or Competition as a Dynamic Process, the title of his last work. In Studies in the Economics of Overhead Costs, Clark developed his theory of the acceleration principle, that investment demand can fluctuate widely when consumer demand fluctuates; in this he anticipated key Keynesian theories of investment and business cycles.

John E. Floyd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John E. Floyd: a Canadian economist and member of the University of Toronto faculty.[1]Floyd received his B.Comm. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1958, and continued to obtain an honours economics degree in 1959. He later obtained M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1962 and 1964 respectively.Before coming to the University of Toronto in 1970, Floyd spent 9 years at the University of Washington. He joined the Washington faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1962, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1966 and Full Professor in 1970.Since 1970, Floyd has been a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto.

Edward John            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edward John: (born August 23, 1960 in Stuart, Florida) is a former backup catcher in Major League who played for the New York Mets (1986) and Kansas City Royals (1987-1988). He batted and threw right-handed.

Austin St. John            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Austin St. John: St. John's acting career began with his role as Jason in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, which began in 1993 and started the Power Rangers franchise. The show went through unexpected overnight success and catapulted into pop culture in months. Mid-way through the second season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, St. John left the show along with fellow cast member Walter Jones (Zack Taylor) and Thuy Trang (Trini Kwan). This was reportedly due to a salary dispute with the producers because Power Rangers was then a non-union production and the cast members were underpaid.

Jill St. John            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jill St. John: is an American film and television actress.St. John played her major film roles during the 1960s and early 1970s, including Barbara Tuttle in Jerry Lewis's Who's Minding the Store? and a turn as Bond Girl Tiffany Case opposite Sean Connery in the 1971 James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever.

Marco St. John            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marco St. John: is an American actor who has starred in many films and on television. He is best known for his role as the perverted truck driver in the 1991 hit film Thelma and Louise. St. John is also well known in the horror fan community for playing Sheriff Tucker in the 1985 horror film Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.

Jude St. John            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jude St. John: is a Canadian Football League offensive lineman for the Toronto Argonauts. He attended high school at Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School in London Ontario. He is married with children.