John Nixon

John Nixon is the name of:

  • John Nixon, Armagh, Irish Republican, Hunger Striker 1981.
  • John Nixon (MP), Member of the Long Parliament in England, representing Oxford City 1646-1648
  • John Nixon (Massachusetts) (1724–1815), Continental Army general from Massachusetts during the American Revolution
  • John Nixon (financier) (1733–1808), Philadelphia merchant and militia officer during the American Revolution
  • John Nixon (mining engineer) (1815–1899), English mining engineer
  • John Nixon (British general) (1857–1921), lieutenant general in the British Indian Army
  • John Nixon (equestrian), Canadian jockey and horse trainer.
  • John B. Nixon (1928–2005), murderer in Mississippi, USA
  • John E. Nixon, director of Michigan state Budget office.
  • John T. Nixon (1820 - 1889), a U.S. Representative from New Jersey
  • John Trice Nixon (born 1933), U.S. federal judge
  • John William Nixon (1880 - 1949), Unionist politician in Northern Ireland

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or nixon:

    “Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he’s dead.”
    —P. J. Wolfson, and John L. Balderston (1899–1954)

    “This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.”
    —Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)