John Palmer - Other People

Other People

  • John Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne (born 1940), British peer and businessman
  • John Palmer (actor) (1742?–1798), English actor
  • John Palmer (author) (1885–1944), British author
  • John Palmer (Commissary of New South Wales) (1760–1833)
  • John Palmer (director) (born 1943), Canadian film and theatre director
  • John Palmer (postal innovator) (1742–1818), inventor of the lightweight mail coach
  • John Palmer (Rockaway, Queens landowner), first Englishman to purchase land in the Rockaway Peninsula
  • John Palmer (TV journalist) (born 1935), former NBC News correspondent
  • John Horsley Palmer (1779–1858), English banker and Governor of the Bank of England
  • John J. Palmer (born 1965), metallurgist and author of How to Brew

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