John Gregory

John Gregory may refer to:

  • John Gregory (scholar) (1607–1646), English orientalist
  • John Gregory (moralist) (1724–1773), Scottish author
  • John Munford Gregory (1804–1884), Governor of Virginia, United States, 1842–1843
  • John H. Gregory (1820–1865), American miner and discoverer of the first gold lode in the Rocky Mountains
  • John Milton Gregory (1822–1898), first President of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States, 1867–1880
  • John Gregory (governor), British Governor of the Bahamas and Jamaica, 1854–1857
  • John Walter Gregory (1864–1932), British geologist
  • John Duncan Gregory (1878–1951), British diplomat dismissed for speculation in foreign currencies
  • John Gregory (politician) (1878–1955), Canadian member of Parliament
  • John Gregory (sculptor) (1879–1958), American sculptor
  • John Gregory (cricketer) (1887–1914), Hampshire cricketer
  • Colin Gregory (John Colin Gregory, 1903–1959), British tennis player
  • John F. Gregory (1927–2009), optical worker and creator of the Gregory-Maksutov telescope design
  • Jack Gregory (American football coach) (born c. 1929), college football head coach for East Stroudsburg, Villanova, and Rhode Island
  • John Gregory (American football coach) (born 1938), American football coach, current head coach of the Iowa Barnstormers
  • John Gregory (footballer) (born 1954), English footballer and coach
  • John Gregory (musician), third guitarist for the 1960s San Francisco band The Mystery Trend
  • John M. Gregory (businessman), American former CEO of King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in the 1990s

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or gregory:

    “Thou hast brought him a pardon from good King John.””
    —Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 108)

    “There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. It’s another thing, though, to hold up that cloth for inspection.”
    —John Gregory Brown (20th century)