John Holloway

John Holloway may refer to:

  • John Holloway (poet) (1920–1999), British academic and poet
  • John Holloway (musician) (born 1948), British baroque violinist
  • John Holloway (Royal Navy officer) (1744–1826), British colonial official and governor of Newfoundland, 1807–1809
  • John Holloway (sociologist) (born 1947), Marxist writer
  • John Holloway (Virginia politician) (1666–1734), mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia, 1722–1723
  • John Ernest Holloway (1881–1945), New Zealand Anglican priest, botanist and university lecturer
  • John Thorpe Holloway (1914–1977), New Zealand alpine explorer and forest ecologist

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or holloway:

    It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
    —Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

    I am blackly bored when they are at large & at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway & we are deprived of them.
    Henry James (1843–1916)