John Briggs

John Briggs may refer to:

  • Johnny Briggs (cricketer) (1862–1902), English cricketer
  • Johnny Briggs (actor) (born 1935), English actor who played Mike Baldwin in the British soap opera Coronation Street
  • Johnny Briggs (baseball) (born 1944), American former baseball outfielder
  • John Briggs (baseball) (born 1934), American baseball pitcher
  • Jonny Briggs, eponymous character in a BBC children's television programme, first broadcast in 1985
  • Jon Briggs (born 1965), English voice actor and journalist
  • John Briggs (politician) (born 1930), American politician
  • John Briggs (author), American author and university lecturer
  • John Briggs (bishop) (1789–1861), bishop and Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District of England
  • John Briggs, activist from Gainesville, Florida, and member of the Gainesville Eight group in the 1960s
  • John Briggs (racing driver), Australian racing driver and race team owner
  • John Joseph Briggs (1819–1876), writer
  • John Briggs (East India Company officer) (1785–1875), British officer in the army of the East India Company, and author
  • John Thomas Briggs (1781–1865), accountant-general of the Royal Navy

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or briggs:

    “And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
    That dying chose the living world for text
    And never could have rested in the tomb
    But that, long travelling, he had come
    Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
    In a most desolate stony place....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “When autonomy is respected, the two-year-old does not carry this unfinished task into later stages of growth. In adolescence, the youngster will again concentrate on independence, but he won’t have to blast the roof off the second time around if it is already well established.”
    —Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)