John George - Americans

Americans

  • John George (Virginia colonist) (1603–1679), Virginia colonist, landowner, soldier and burgess in the Virginia House of Burgesses
  • John George (author), author of Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe
  • John George (BMX racer) (born 1958), former American BMX racing pioneer from the early and mid 1970s
  • John George (California politician), Alameda County supervisor for whom the county psychiatric hospital was named, activist and human rights pioneer
  • John George, Jr. (born 1946), American businessman, farmer, and politician in the Massachusetts House of Representatives
  • John George, US Army small arms expert and officer in Merrill's Marauders, author of Shots Fired In Anger

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