John Barbour

John Barbour may refer to:

  • John Barbour (poet) (c. 1316–1395), Scottish poet
  • John S. Barbour (1790–1855), U.S. congressman from Virginia
  • John S. Barbour, Jr. (1820–1892), his son, also a politician from Virginia
  • John Strode Barbour (1866–1952), American newspaper editor, lawyer, mayor, and statesman
  • John Barbour (actor) (born 1934?), Canadian-born broadcaster and television personality in the United States
  • Sir John Milne Barbour, known as Milne Barbour (1868–1951), Northern Irish politician
  • John Barbour (clothing maker), namesake of J. Barbour & Sons, a British manufacturer of outerwear
  • John Baxter Barbour, Jr. (1862-1929), president of Pittsburgh Stock Exchange

Famous quotes containing the word john:

    “No such sermons have come to us here out of England, in late years, as those of this preacher,—sermons to kings, and sermons to peasants, and sermons to all intermediate classes. It is in vain that John Bull, or any of his cousins, turns a deaf ear, and pretends not to hear them: nature will not soon be weary of repeating them. There are words less obviously true, more for the ages to hear, perhaps, but none so impossible for this age not to hear.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)