John Simpson

There have been several well-known people named John Simpson.

• John Simpson, the BBC journalist
• John Simpson (Parliamentarian), politician of the post-English Civil War period.
• John Simpson (martyr), one of the Marian martyrs
• John Simpson (VC), recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Simpson Kirkpatrick, Australian World War I war hero (who enlisted as "John Simpson")
• John Simpson (lexicographer), current editor of the OED
• John Hope Simpson, British administrator in India
• John Simpson (soldier) (1748–1825), American Revolutionary War soldier at the Battle of Bunker Hill
• John Simpson (Niagara politician) (1807-1878), was an early Canadian businessman and politician
• John Simpson (Canadian senator) (1812-1885), was an Ontario banker and member of the Senate of Canada
• John Simpson (Quebec politician) (1788-1873), was a government official and politician in Quebec
• Sir John William Simpson (1858-1933) architect
• John Simpson (architect) (1954-) British modern-day classical architect
• John Simpson (17th century writer) Author of The Perfection of Justification Maintained Against the Pharisee (1648).
• John Simpson (footballer born 1918), a former English footballer
• John Simpson (footballer born 1933), a former English footballer
• Jock Simpson, a former England and Blackburn Rovers footballer
• John Simpson (police official), former director of US Secret Service and Interpol
• John Simpson (Kentucky), American Congressman-elect from Kentucky, who died before the start of the 13th Congress in 1813
• John Simpson (actor/producer), Canadian actor
• John Simpson (cricketer), English cricketer
• John A. Simpson (1854–1916), Canadian politician
• John B. Simpson, president of the University at Buffalo
• John D. Simpson (1901-1988), Canadian business person (Placer Development)
• John W. Simpson, American electrical engineer
• John W. Simpson, Lawyer and founding partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
• John H T Simpson, Senior RAF officer in the mid 1950s and eighth Commandant Royal Observer Corps
• John Simpson (bassist), the bassist in the American R&B band The S.O.S. Band.
• John Simpson, British featherweight boxer

Fictional characters:

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