John Bell - Literature

Literature

  • John Bell (publisher) (1745–1831), English publisher
  • John Bell (folk music) (1783–1864), English folk song collector
  • John Bell (traveller) (1691–1780), Scottish traveller and author
  • John Joy Bell (1871–1934), Scottish author
  • John Bell (historian) (born 1952), Canadian archivist and comic book historian

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