Howard Johnson

Howard Johnson may refer to:

  • Howard Johnson's, a chain of hotels and restaurants
  • Howard Deering Johnson (1897–1972), founder of Howard Johnson's restaurants
  • Howard David Johnson, (born 1950s), American painter
  • Howard Johnson (baseball) (born 1960), American baseball player
  • Howard Johnson (cricketer) (born 1964), American cricketer
  • Howard Johnson (electrical engineer), in signal integrity and high speed electronic circuit design
  • Howard Johnson (lyricist) (1887–1941), American song-writer
  • Howard Johnson (politician) (1910–2000), British Conservative politician in the 1950s, MP for Brighton Kemptown
  • Howard R. Johnson (1903–1944), commander of the U.S. Army 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II
  • Howard R. Johnson (inventor) (d. 2008), inventor of a perpetual motion device
  • Howard Earl Johnston (1928–2001), Canadian politician
  • Howard Wesley Johnson (1922–2009), former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Howie Johnson, (born c.1930), PGA Tour professional golfer
Musicians
  • Howard Johnson (jazz musician) (born 1941), post-bop on tuba and baritone saxophone
  • Howard Johnson (soul singer), Miami-born R&B vocalist who had several hits during the early 1980s
  • Howard E. Johnson (1908–1991), American swing saxophonist
  • Howie Johnson (drummer), former drummer for The Ventures

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