John Christie

John Christie may refer to:

  • John Christie (industrialist) (1774–1858)
  • John Christie (footballer born 1883) (1883–?), English footballer
  • John Christie (ski entrepreneur), author, ski historian, Member Maine Ski Hall of Fame
  • John Christie (opera manager) (1882–1962), opera festival founder
  • John Christie (mayor) (1883–1953), Scottish-born South African politician
  • John Christie (minister) (born 1947), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for 2010–2011
  • John Christie (murderer) (1899–1953), British serial killer
  • John Alexander Christie (1895–1967), British Victoria Cross recipient
  • J. Walter Christie (1865–1944), U.S. inventor
  • John Christie (footballer born 1929), former goalkeeper with Southampton F.C.
  • John Traill Christie (1899–1980), headmaster of Repton School and Westminster School, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
  • the founder of Christie's auction house

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or christie:

    “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)

    “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.”
    —Agatha Christie (1890–1976)