John Lake

John Lake may refer to:

  • John Lake (bishop) (1624–1689), bishop in the British Isles
  • John Henry Lake (1878–?), American cyclist who won a bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics
  • John Lake (journalist) (born 1930), former sports editor of Newsweek who disappeared in 1967
  • John G. Lake (1870–1935), businessman, missionary, and faith healer
  • John Neilson Lake (1834–?), founding father of Saskatoon
  • John Lake (MP) for Exeter (UK Parliament constituency)

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or lake:

    “Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band!
    Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl’s hand!”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone! None of your half-mile swamps, none of your mile-wide woods merely, as on the skirts of our towns, without hotels, only a dark mountain or a lake for guide-board and station, over ground much of it impassable in summer!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)