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

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    “This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.”
    —Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

    “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)