John Clarke - United Kingdom

United Kingdom

  • John Clarke (fl.1601), MP for Haslemere (UK Parliament constituency)
  • Colonel John Clarke (parliamentarian), fought for Parliament in the English Civil War and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
  • John Clarke, pseudonym adopted by Richard Cromwell after his abdication
  • John Clarke (died 1681), English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1653 and 1660
  • John Clarke (Dean of Salisbury) (1682–1757), dean of Salisbury Cathedral, mathematician and natural philosopher
  • John Clarke, whaler and one of the discoverers of Jan Mayen
  • Sir John Clarke (British army officer) (1787–1854), officer in the British and Spanish armies
  • John Clarke (physicist) (born 1942), English physicist
  • John Cooper Clarke (born 1949), British performance poet, active since the late 1970s
  • John Creemer Clarke (1821–1895), British Member of Parliament
  • John Erskine Clarke (1827–1920), British rower and clergyman who founded the first parish magazine
  • John Henry Clarke (1853–1931), English classical homeopath
  • John Smith Clarke (1885–1959), lion tamer, politician, poet, newspaper editor and art expert
  • John Clarke (dean of Wells) (born 1952), current Dean of Wells since 2004
  • John Clarke-Whitfeld (1770–1836), English organist and composer
  • John Clarke (footballer), footballer who played for Bury, Blackpool and Luton Town

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