John Ball

John Ball may refer to:

  • John Ball (priest) (c. 1338–1381), English Lollard priest of the Peasants' Revolt
  • John Ball (16th century MP) for Norwich
  • John Ball (Puritan) (1585–1640), English author and scholar
  • John Ball (clergyman) (fl.1785), American minister from Nova Scotia
  • John Ball (minister) (1665–1745), English Presbyterian minister
  • John Ball (pioneer) (1794–1884), American explorer
  • John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin University 1868–1875
  • John Ball (naturalist) (1818–1889), Irish naturalist and politician, MP for County Carlow 1857–1880
  • John Ball (golfer) (1861–1940), English amateur golfer; winner of The Open Championship
  • John Ball (author) (1911–1988), American novelist
  • John Ball (footballer born 1900) (1900–1989), English footballer for Bury and England
  • John Ball (footballer born 1925), English footballer for Bolton Wanderers
  • Johnny Ball (born 1938), English children's television presenter
  • John M. Ball (born 1948), English mathematician
  • John Ball (soccer) (born 1972), American footballer for the Rochester Rhinos

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or ball:

    “What should we know,
    For better or worse,
    Of the Long Ago,
    Were it not for Verse:”
    —Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957)

    “Any balance we achieve between adult and parental identities, between children’s and our own needs, works only for a time—because, as one father says, “It’s a new ball game just about every week.” So we are always in the process of learning to be parents.”
    —Joan Sheingold Ditzion, Dennie, and Palmer Wolf. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)