John Weir

John Weir may refer to:

  • John Weir (physician) (1879–1971), Physician Royal to several British monarchs
  • John Angus Weir (1930–2007), fourth president of Wilfrid Laurier University
  • John Ferguson Weir (1841–1926), American painter and sculptor
  • John Jenner Weir (1822–1894), English amateur entomologist, ornithologist and British civil servant
  • John Weir (loyalist) (born 1950), Ulster loyalist
  • Johnny Weir (born 1984), American figure skater

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or weir:

    The origin of storms is not in clouds,
    our lightning strikes when the earth rises,
    spillways free authentic power:
    dead John Brown’s body walking from a tunnel
    to break the armored and concluded mind.
    Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim’s cheque-books.
    —Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914)