John Austin

John Austin may refer to:

  • John Austin (1613–1669), English Catholic writer
  • John Austin (highwayman) (died 1783), noted for having been the last person hanged on the famous gallows at Tyburn, London
  • John Austin (Jesuit) (1717–1784), Irish Jesuit
  • John Austin (inventor) (1752–1830), Scottish inventor of musical equipment
  • John Austin (legal philosopher) (1790–1859), legal and political theorist who wrote The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
  • John Austin (soldier) (1801–1833), active in early settlement of Mexican Texas
  • Sir John Austin, 1st Baronet (1824–1906), British politician, MP for Osgoldcross, 1886–1906
  • John Gardiner Austin, colonial secretary of Hong Kong
  • John Arnold Austin (1905–1941), warrant officer in the United States Navy
  • Johnny Austin (1910–1983), U.S. musician
  • J. L. Austin (John Langshaw Austin, 1911–1960), philosopher of language who wrote How to do Things with Words
  • John Austin (author), British author specializing in WWII propaganda
  • John P. Austin, American set decorator
  • John Austin (bishop) (1939–2007), bishop of Aston
  • John Austin (politician) (born 1944), British Labour Party politician, MP since 1992
  • John Austin (basketball) (born 1944), U.S. former professional basketball player
  • John Austin (tennis player) (born 1957), former professional tennis player
  • John Austin (artist), British railway artist
  • John Alexander Austin (1912–1984), Canadian aviator
  • John C. Austin (1870–1963), architect and civic leader in Southern California
  • John Beech Austin (1917–2012), British aviator in World War II

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or austin:

    “People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.”
    —John Cheever (1912–1982)

    “Certainly, then, ordinary language is not the last word: in
    principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon, and superseded. Only remember, it is the first word.”
    —John Austin (1911–1960)