Military
- John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore (1685–1752), Scottish peer and British Army general
- Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet (1768–1827), general, led a brigade under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War
- John Ivor Murray (1824–1903), Scottish surgeon who practised in China, Hong Kong and then in Sebastopol in the Crimean War
- John Murray (VC) (1837–1911), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- John Murray (general) (1892–1951), general in the Australian Army
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“[I]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)