Howard Johnson

Howard Johnson may refer to:

  • Howard Johnson's, a chain of hotels and restaurants
  • Howard Deering Johnson (1897–1972), founder of Howard Johnson's restaurants
  • Howard David Johnson, (born 1950s), American painter
  • Howard Johnson (baseball) (born 1960), American baseball player
  • Howard Johnson (cricketer) (born 1964), American cricketer
  • Howard Johnson (electrical engineer), in signal integrity and high speed electronic circuit design
  • Howard Johnson (lyricist) (1887–1941), American song-writer
  • Howard Johnson (politician) (1910–2000), British Conservative politician in the 1950s, MP for Brighton Kemptown
  • Howard R. Johnson (1903–1944), commander of the U.S. Army 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II
  • Howard R. Johnson (inventor) (d. 2008), inventor of a perpetual motion device
  • Howard Earl Johnston (1928–2001), Canadian politician
  • Howard Wesley Johnson (1922–2009), former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Howie Johnson, (born c.1930), PGA Tour professional golfer
Musicians
  • Howard Johnson (jazz musician) (born 1941), post-bop on tuba and baritone saxophone
  • Howard Johnson (soul singer), Miami-born R&B vocalist who had several hits during the early 1980s
  • Howard E. Johnson (1908–1991), American swing saxophonist
  • Howie Johnson (drummer), former drummer for The Ventures

Famous quotes containing the words howard and/or johnson:

    “There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, “he was a blockhead ....” BOSWELL. “Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?” JOHNSON. “Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler.””
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)