John Campbell

John Campbell may refer to:

Political figures

United Kingdom

• John Campbell, Earl of Atholl (died 1333), Scottish nobleman
• John Campbell, 3rd of Cawdor (1576–1642), Scottish nobleman and knight
• John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun (1598–1661), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, President of the Privy Council
• John Campbell of Mamore (c. 1660–1729), MP for Dunbartonshire, 1708–22 and 1725–27
• John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1678–1743), Scottish soldier, Lord Steward, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey
• John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll (1693–1770), Scottish Whig politician
• John Campbell of Cawdor (1695–1777), British MP for Pembrokeshire 1727–47, Inverness Burghs 1754–61, Corfe Castle 1762–68
• John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll (1723–1806), Scottish MP for Glasgow Burghs and for Dover, Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire
• John Campbell (1750–1826), Scottish lawyer and politician, MP for Ayr Burghs 1794–1807
• John Campbell (missionary), (1766-1840)
• John Campbell (1770–1809), Scottish politician, MP for Ayr Burghs 1807–09, first husband of the writer Lady Charlotte Bury
• John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor (1753–1821), British politician, MP for Nairnshire 1777–80 and for Cardigan Boroughs 1780–96
• John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell (1779–1861), English MP for Stafford, Dudley and Edinburgh, Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor of England
• John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll (1777–1847), Scottish MP for Argyllshire 1799–1820, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland
• John Campbell (1798–1830), MP for Dunbartonshire, 1826–30
• John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor (1790–1860), British earl and MP for Carmarthen from 1813–21
• John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor (1817–1898), British politician, MP for Pembrokeshire 1841–60
• John Campbell, 5th Earl Cawdor (1900–1970), Scottish peer
• John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845–1914), Scottish MP for Argyllshire 1868–78 and Manchester South 1895–1900, Governor General of Canada 1878–83
• John Campbell (surgeon) (1862–1929), Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament
• John Campbell (Irish politician) (1870–?), Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for South Armagh 1900-06
• John Campbell (Labour politician) (died 1937), Northern Irish trade unionist and Northern Ireland Labour Party councillor
• John Dermot Campbell (1898–1945), Northern Irish businessman and Ulster Unionist MP
• John Ross Campbell (1894–1969), Scottish communist activist and newspaper editor
• John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1636–1717), Scottish MP for Argyllshire, 1669–74
• John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1662–1752), Lord Lieutenant of Perthshire, Chief Justice in Eyre
• John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1696–1782), Scottish MP for Saltash and Ordford, Master of the Jewel Office, Vice-Admiral of Scotland
• John Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane (1762–1834), also 4th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
• John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane (1796–1862), English MP for Okehampton and for Perthshire, Lord Chamberlain of the Household
• John Campbell, 6th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1824–1871)
• John Campbell, 10th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1919–1995)
• John Gordon Drummond Campbell (1864–1935), British Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Thames, 1918–22

United States

• John Campbell (Kentucky) (c. 1735–1799), Kentucky state senator
• John Campbell (1765–1828), Congressman from Maryland
• John Campbell (US Treasurer) (1789–c. 1866), fifth Treasurer of the United States
• John Campbell (1795–1845), Congressman from South Carolina
• John Campbell (diplomat) (born 1944), diplomat
• John Archibald Campbell (1811–1889), U.S. Supreme Court justice & Confederate official
• John F. Campbell (politician) (born 1954), Vermont state senator
• John Hull Campbell (1800–1886), Congressman from Pennsylvania
• John G. Campbell (1827–1903), U.S. territorial delegate from Arizona
• John P. Campbell, Jr. (1820–1888), Congressman from Kentucky
• John B. T. Campbell III (born 1955), Congressman from California
• John Allen Campbell (1835–1880), Wyoming's first provisional governor
• John Tucker Campbell (1912–1991), secretary of state of South Carolina
• John Wilson Campbell (1782–1833), U.S. federal judge & Congressman from Ohio
• John T. Campbell, California state legislator with Civil War army service

Canada

• John Campbell (Nova Scotia politician) (1849–1887), Conservative member of the Canadian Parliament from Nova Scotia of Digby
• John Campbell (Quebec politician) (born 1936), Liberal member of the Canadian Parliament from Quebec
• John Campbell (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1720–1790), Commodore Governor for Newfoundland
• John Campbell (Upper Canada politician) (1789–1834), politician in Upper Canada
• John Campbell (London mayor) (1823–1901), manufacturer and municipal politician in Ontario, Canada
• John A. Campbell (Manitoba politician) (1872–1963), Manitoba politician
• John Murray Campbell (born 1931), former Alberta MLA
• John Campbell (Ontario politician), Canadian politician

Australia

• John Campbell (Australian politician) (1802–1886), member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
• John Thomas Campbell (1770–1830), member of the New South Wales Legislative Council

Other countries

• Sir John Campbell, of Airds (1807–1853), Lt-Governor of St Vincent 1845–1853
• Sir John Logan Campbell (politician) (1817–1912), prominent figure in the history of Auckland, New Zealand

Military and naval personnel

• John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705–1782), General in North America
• John Campbell, of Strachur (1727–1806), General at Pensacola in the West Florida province
• John Campbell of Stonefield (1753–1784), Lieutenant-Colonel at Mangalore
• Sir John Campbell, 1st Baronet (1836–1915), Major-General, R.A., served in Crimea, China, Afghan War, Zhob Valley
• Sir John Campbell, 2nd Baronet (1807–1855), Major-General, killed in attack upon the Redan
• John Vaughan Campbell (1876–1944), Victoria Cross recipient, Brigadier-General, First World War, ADC to the King 1919–1938
• Jock Campbell (VC) (John Charles Campbell, 1894–1942), Major-General and Victoria Cross recipient
• John B. Campbell (1777–1814), soldier during the War of 1812
• John F. Campbell (general) (born 1954), U.S. Army general
• John Campbell (died 1804) (died 1804), British colonel and Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth

Sportsmen

• John Campbell (athlete) (born 1949), New Zealand long distance runner
• John Campbell (cricketer) (born 1993), Jamaican cricketer
• John Campbell (footballer, born 1850s), Glasgow South Western and Scotland winger
• John Campbell (footballer, born 1870) (1870–1906), Sunderland and Newcastle United forward
• John Campbell (footballer, born 1871) (1871–1947), Celtic and Aston Villa forward
• John Campbell (footballer, born 1877) (1877–1919), Blackburn Rovers, Rangers and Scotland forward
• John Campbell (American football) (born 1938), American football player
• John Campbell (harness racing) (born 1955), Canadian harness racing driver
• John Campbell (rower) (1899–1939), British rower and Olympic silver medalist
• John Campbell (rugby) (1889–1966), Australian rugby league footballer
• John Campbell (baseball) (1907–1995), Washington Senators pitcher
• John Argentine Campbell (1877–1917), Scottish rugby union player
• John Campbell (snooker player) (born 1953), Australian snooker player
• John Campbell (skier) (born 1962), alpine skier from the Virgin Islands
• John Campbell (footballer, born 1988), Oxford United forward
• John Cyril Campbell, English athlete and football coach

Academics and scientists

• John Francis Campbell (1822–1885), scholar of Celtic folklore and language; inventor
• John Edward Campbell (1862–1924), mathematician credited for the Campbell-Hausdorff formula
• John Lorne Campbell (1906–1996), Scottish historian, farmer, environmentalist, and folklore scholar
• John R. Campbell, 20th century American academic
• John Campbell (casting scientist) (born 1938), British engineer
• John Angus Campbell (born 1942), retired American professor of rhetoric
• John Campbell (philosopher) (born 1956), professor of philosophy at the University of California
• John Y. Campbell (born 1958), professor of economics at Harvard University

Religious figures

• John Campbell (minister) (1795–1867), minister of Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields, London
• John Campbell (missionary) (1766–1840), Scottish missionary in South Africa
• John McLeod Campbell (1800–1872), Scottish minister and theologian
• John Nicholson Campbell (1798–1864), Presbyterian clergyman who served as Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
• John Campbell (bishop of Argyll) (died 1613), Scottish clergyman

Businessmen

• John A. Campbell (lumber executive) (1941–2008), Australian-American timber executive
• John Saxton Campbell (c. 1787–1855), British seigneur and shipbuilder in Lower Canada
• John W. Campbell (New York) (1880–1957), American financier

Musicians

• John Campbell (bassist) (born 1972), American musician, bassist for Lamb of God
• John Campbell (blues guitarist) (1952–1993), American blues guitarist
• John Campbell (jazz pianist) (born 1955), American jazz pianist
• John Campbell (musician), American musical composer

Writers and journalists

• John Campbell (editor) (1653–1728), pioneer colonial American journalist
• John Campbell (author) (1708–1775), Scottish author
• John Campbell (biographer) (born 1947), British political biographer
• John Campbell, author of early 21st-century webcomic, Pictures for Sad Children
• John W. Campbell (1910–1971), American science fiction writer, editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact
• Wal Campbell (John William Wallace Campbell, 1906–1979), Australian anti-Catholic journalist

Other people

• John Campbell (architect) (1857–1942), practised in New Zealand
• John Campbell (broadcaster) (born 1964), television personality in New Zealand
• John C. Campbell (1867–1919), American educator known for surveying life in the Appalachians
  • John C. Campbell Folk School, a school in Brasstown, North Carolina, est. by John C. Campbell's widow
• John H. Campbell (1868–1928), American judge, associate justice on Arizona's territorial supreme court
• John William Campbell (herbalist), Sierra Leonean herbalist
• John Campbell (voice actor), an alias of Greg Abbey
• Constable John Campbell, awarded the George Medal for his part in foiling the Linwood bank robbery

See also

• John B. Campbell Handicap, thoroughbred horse race in Maryland, US
• Johnny Campbell (disambiguation)
• Jack Campbell (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Campbell (disambiguation)