John Laird

John Laird may refer to:

  • John Laird (philosopher) (1887–1946), Scottish philosopher
  • John Laird (American politician) (born 1950), former California State Assembly member
  • John Laird (shipbuilder) (1805–1874), British shipbuilder and key figure in development of Birkenhead
  • John Laird, Baron Laird (born 1944), British Member of the House of Lords and Ulster Unionist Politician
  • John E. Laird (born 1954), computer scientist
  • John Houston Laird (1874–1959), politician in Saskatchewan, Canada
  • John Keith McBroom Laird (1907–1985), Canadian author, barrister, and solicitor
  • Jack Laird (1923–1991), American television writer and actor

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or laird:

    “Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
    —C. John Sommerville (20th century)

    “An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies by pulling itself in two, without permanently diminishing the original. So with words. A meaning may develop on the periphery of the body of meanings associated with a word, and shortly this tentacle-meaning has grown to such proportions that it dwarfs all other meanings.”
    —Charlton Laird (b. 1901)