John Murray

John Murray or Murry may refer to:

Arts and media

Literature and music

• John Murray (publishing house), a British publishing house, founded by John Murray (1745–1793)
• John Murray (publisher, born 1778) (died 1843), second head of the publishing house
• John Murray III (1808–1892), third head of the publishing house
• John Murray (Australian writer) (born 1963), Australian epidemiologist and writer
• John Murray (novelist) (born 1950), British novelist
• John Middleton Murry (1889–1957), writer
• John Middleton Murry Jr. (1926–2002), English writer
• John Murry (musician) (born 1979), American musician
• John Murray Graham (1809–1881), Scottish historian, in early life John Murray

Screen, radio and performing arts

• John Murray (Irish broadcaster) (born 1964), Irish broadcaster and journalist
• John Murray (playwright) (1906–1984), American playwright, co-author of Room Service
• John Murray (sports broadcaster) (born 1966), English sports commentator
• John T. Murray (1886–1957), Australian-born actor
• Johnny Murray (voice actor) (1904–1956), voice actor known for Bosko, the first star of Warner Brothers cartoons
• John B. Murray (filmmaker) (1931/1932–2020), Australian filmmaker and author

Sportspeople

Association football

• John Murray (footballer, born 1865) (1865–1922), Scottish international footballer who played club football for Vale of Leven, Sunderland, and Blackburn Rovers
• John Murray (footballer, born 1874) (c. 1874–1933), Scottish international footballer who played club football for Renton and Dundee
• John Murray (footballer, born 1927) (1927–1988), England footballer who played club football for Gillingham
• John Murray (footballer, born 1948) (born 1948), English footballer
• John Murray (Irish footballer) (fl. 1890s), Irish footballer

Other

• John Murray (athlete) (1881–?), Irish Olympic athlete who competed for Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics
• Jack Murray (Australian footballer) (fl. 1935–1949), Australian rules footballer
• John Murray (boxer) (born 1984), lightweight English boxer
• John Murray (cricketer, born 1935) (1935–2018), English cricketer
• John Murray (cricketer, born 1873) (1873–1916), Scottish cricketer and RAF officer
• John Murray (cricketer, born 1882) (1882–1917), Scottish cricketer and British Army officer
• John Murray (ice hockey, born 1924) (1924–2017), British ice hockey player
• John Murray (ice hockey, born 1987), American ice hockey player
• John Murray (sports broadcaster) (born 1966), English broadcaster for BBC Radio 5 Live
• Johnny Murray (1898–1954), Irish footballer during the 1920s
• John A. Murray (jockey) in Singapore Gold Cup

Law and politics

United Kingdom and Britain

• John Murray, 1st Earl of Tullibardine (died 1609), Scottish courtier and leader of the Clan Murray
• John Murray, 1st Earl of Annandale (died 1640), Scottish courtier and MP for Guildford
• John Murray, Lord Bowhill (died 1714), MP in the first Parliament of Great Britain 1707–1708
• John Murray (died 1753), British MP for the Linlithgow Burghs, 1725–1734, Selkirkshire, 1734–1753
• Lord John Murray (1711–1787), British General and MP for Perthshire, 1734–1761
• John Murray of Broughton (c. 1718–1777), Jacobite and secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart
• John Murray (1726–1800), British MP for the Linlithgow Burghs, 1754–1761
• John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl (1729–1774), MP for Perthshire 1761–1764, Lord of the Isle of Man from 1764 to 1765
• John Murray (colonial administrator) (c. 1739–1824), governor of the Cape Breton colony in today's Nova Scotia
• John Murray (British diplomat) (c. 1712–1775), Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire 1765–1775
• Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet (c. 1768–1827), British MP for Wootton Bassett 1807–1811, Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1811–1818
• John Murray, 5th Duke of Atholl (1778–1846), British Army officer and landowner in Scotland
• John Murray, Lord Murray (1779–1859), British MP for the Leith Burghs, 1832–1839
• Sir Hubert Murray (John Hubert Plunkett Murray, 1861–1940), judge and Lieutenant-Governor of Papua
• John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl (1929–2012), British peer

Scotland

• John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl (1631–1703), leading Scottish royalist
• John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (1660–1724), Scottish nobleman and politician
• John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), colonial governor of Virginia and later the Bahamas
• John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl (1755–1830), Scottish peer
• John Wilson Murray (1840–1906), Scottish-born police detective who worked in the US and Canada during the late 19th/early 20th centuries
• John Murray (Liberal politician) (1879–1964), Scottish civil servant, university administrator and Liberal Party politician
• John Murray, Lord Dervaird (1935–2015), Scottish judge

Ireland

• John Murray (Monaghan MP) (1707–1743), MP for County Monaghan 1741–43
• John L. Murray (judge) (1943–2023), Irish judge

United States

• John Murray (Massachusetts politician) (1715?–1794), representative to the Great and General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
• John Murray (congressman) (1768–1834), United States Representative from Pennsylvania
• John F. Murray (politician) (1862–1928), second borough president of The Bronx
• John L. Murray (representative) (1806–1842), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
• John Porry Murray (1830–1895), Confederate politician
• John E. Murray Jr. (1932–2015), professor of law and Chancellor of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• John S. Murray (Iowa politician) (born 1939), American politician from the state of Iowa
• John S. Murray (Washington politician) (1925–2007), American politician in the state of Washington

Australia

• John Murray (pastoralist) (1837–1917), member of the Queensland Parliament from 1888 to 1903
• John Murray (Victorian politician) (1851–1916), Premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912
• John Murray (Queensland politician) (1915–2009), member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1958 to 1961
• John Murray (New South Wales politician) (born 1939), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2003

Other

• John Murray (judge) (1888–1976), Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia from 1955 to 1961
• J. R. Murray (John Rose Murray, 1898–1991), Ceylonese accountant and politician in colonial Ceylon

Military

• John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore (1685–1752), Scottish peer and British Army general
• Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet (c. 1768–1827), general, led a brigade under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War
• John Murray (Australian explorer) (c. 1775–c. 1807), Royal Navy officer
• John B. Murray (general) (1822–1884), American general
• John Ivor Murray (1824–1903), Scottish surgeon who practised in China, Hong Kong and then in Sebastopol in the Crimean War
• Sir John Irvine Murray (1826–1902), Scottish general who raised the 14th Murray's Jat Lancers
• John Murray (native police officer) (1827–1876), Native Police officer in Queensland, Australia
• John Murray (Irish soldier) (1837–1911), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Murray (Australian Army general) (1892–1951), general in the Australian Army
• John M. Murray (born 1960), United States Army general
• John E. Murray (1918–2008), United States Army general
• Sir John Macgregor Murray, 1st Baronet (1745–1822), Scottish army officer

Religion and theology

• John Murray (minister) (1741–1815), minister and inspirational figure sometimes called the "founder of American Universalism"
• John Gardner Murray (1857–1929), Episcopal bishop of Maryland and Presiding Bishop
• John Owen Farquhar Murray (1858–1944), Anglican clergyman and master of Selwyn College, Cambridge
• John Gregory Murray (1877–1956), Roman Catholic archbishop of Saint Paul
• John Murray (theologian) (1898–1975), Scottish-born Calvinist theologian and Presbyterian minister
• John W. Murray (1913–1996), pastor, evangelist, and president of Shelton College
• John Murray (provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow) (1901–1973), priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church
• John Courtney Murray (1904–1967), Jesuit priest and theologian
• John Murray (archdeacon of Dublin) (1916–2005), priest in the Church of Ireland
• John Murray (archdeacon of Cashel) (born 1945)
• John Murray (dean of Killaloe) (died 1790), Anglican priest in Ireland
• John Walton Murray, Irish Anglican priest and author

Science

• John Murray (physician) (1778–1820), Scottish geologist and lecturer in various scientific subjects
• John Murray (science lecturer) (c. 1786–1851), Scottish geologist
• Sir John Murray (oceanographer) (1841–1914), Scots-Canadian marine biologist credited as the "father of modern oceanography"
• John O'Kane Murray (1847–1885), Irish physician and author
• John Murray (geographer) (1883–1940), Scottish educator and author
• John F. Murray (1927–2020), American pulmonologist and researcher
• John Murray (professor of robotics) (born 1978)

Others

• John Murray (abolitionist) (1787–1849), leading light in Glasgow Emancipation Society
• John Murray (Naperville founder) (1785–1868), one of the original settlers of Naperville, Illinois in 1831
• John Murray (sheep breeder), father (c. 1812–1886), and son (1841–1908), breeders of merino sheep in South Australia
• John Lamb Murray (1838–1908), Scottish architect
• John Bunion Murray (1908–1988), self-taught artist in Glascock County, Georgia
• John Clark Murray (1836–1917), Scottish philosopher and professor

See also

• Jon Murray (disambiguation)
• Jack Murray (disambiguation)
• Jock Murray (disambiguation)

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