John Hancock
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～ a person's own signature
John Dowland
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～ English lutenist and composer of songs for the lute (1563-1626)
John James Audubon
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～ United States ornithologist and artist (born in Haiti) noted for his paintings of birds of America (1785-1851)
John Herschel
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～ English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)
John Edgar Hoover
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～ United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)
John Constable
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～ English landscape painter (1776-1837)
John Bernoulli
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～ Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
John Fletcher
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～ prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625)
John
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～ the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament
John Drew
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～ United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)
John Berry Hobbs
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～ notable English cricketer (1882-1963)
John Cheever
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～ United States writer of novels and short stories (1912-1982)
John Heming
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～ English actor who edited the first folio of Shakespeare's plays (1556-1630)
John Hancock
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～ American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress; was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence (1737-1793)
John Davys
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～ English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)
John Haldane
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～ Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)
John
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～ (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation
John Henry
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～ hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill
John Huston
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～ United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987)
John Griffith Chaney
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～ United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)