John Law

John Law may refer to:

  • John Law (economist) (1671–1729), Scottish economist
  • John Law (bishop) (1745–1810), English mathematician and Church of Ireland bishop
  • John Law (sociologist), sociologist at the Open University
  • John Law (film director), Hong Kong film director
  • John Law (mayor), mayor of Rodney District in New Zealand
  • John Law (representative) (1796–1873), U.S. Representative from Indiana
  • John Law (Burning Man), American artist
  • John Law (comics), comic-book character created by Will Eisner
  • John Law (Australian rules footballer) (born 1959), former Australian rules footballer
  • John B. Law, head college football coach for the Manhattan College Jaspers, New York, 1930–1931
  • John Law (musician) (born 1961), British jazz pianist and composer
  • John Phillip Law (1937–2008), American film actor
  • "John Law", single by the band Dropkick Murphys
  • John Law, personification of law enforcement

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or law:

    “Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The image is in the natural or wild state, and it has to be discovered there, not put there, obeying its own law and none of ours. We think we can lay hold of image and take it captive, but the docile captive is not the real image but only the idea, which is the image with its character beaten out of it.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)