John Harper

John Harper may refer to:

  • John Harper (politician) (1930–2001), American politician from Kentucky
  • John Adams Harper (1779–1816), American politician from New Hampshire
  • John L. Harper (1925–2009), British biologist
  • John Harper (pastor) (1872–1912), British Baptist pastor who died on the Titanic
  • John Russell Harper (1914–1983), Canadian art historian
  • John William Harper (1916–1944), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • John Harper (mayor), mayor of Denver, Colorado, U.S.A, 1871–1872
  • Johnny Harper, fictional character in The O.C.
  • John Ernest Harper (1874–1949), British admiral
  • John Harper (computer engineer) (born 1937), British computer engineer who led the Bombe rebuild at Bletchley Park
  • John Joseph Harper (died 1988), Canadian aboriginal leader from Wasagamack, Manitoba
  • John Harper, former director of the Royal School of Church Music

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or harper:

    “Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
    Communicated monthly, sit and stare
    At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
    Where a young man lands hatless from the air.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “The thanksgiving of the old Jew, “Lord, I thank Thee that Thou didst not make me a woman,” doubtless came from a careful review of the situation. Like all of us, he had fortitude enough to bear his neighbors’ afflictions.”
    —Frances A. Griffin, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 19, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)