John Frederick

John Frederick may refer to:

  • John Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince-Bishop (1579–1634), Lutheran administrator of the prince-bishoprics of Bremen, Lübeck and Verden
  • John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503–1554), known as "The Magnanimous"
  • John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony-Coburg-Eisenach, "the middle one" (1529–1595)
  • John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (1582–1628)
  • Sir John Frederick (Lord Mayor) (1601–1685), English MP for Dartmouth, 1660–1661, and City of London, 1663–1679, and Lord Mayor of London
  • Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet (1708–1783), British Member of Parliament for New Shoreham, 1740–1741, and West Looe, 1743–1761
  • Sir John Frederick, 5th Baronet, British Member of Parliament for Newport, 1774–1780, Christchurch, 1781–1790, and Surrey, 1794–1807
  • A pen name of Frederick Schiller Faust (best known under another pen name, Max Brand)
  • John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1654–1686)
  • John Frederick (cricketer, born 1846) (1846–1907), English cricketer
  • John T. Frederick (1893–1975), literary editor, scholar, critic, and novelist
  • John Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1600–1628), Duke of Saxe-Weimar
  • John Frederick, Count Palatine of Sulzbach-Hilpoltstein (1587–1644)
  • John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1625–1679)
  • John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania (1542–1600)
  • John Frederick, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1721–1767)

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    This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and No.
    —Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

    For should your hands drop white and empty
    All the toys of the world would break.
    —John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)