John Gordon - Military

Military

  • John Gordon (admiral) (1792–1869), son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo
  • John Rutherford Gordon (1895–1978), Australian fighter pilot in World War I
  • John A. Gordon (born 1946), deputy director of the CIA, Homeland Security advisor to President Bush
  • John E. Gordon, Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy, 1990–1992
  • John William Gordon (1805–1870), British Army officer and Inspector-General of Engineers

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