John Edwards (disambiguation)
John Edwards is an American politician who was the Democratic Party's vice-presidential nominee in the 2004 U.S. presidential election and a candidate for the 2004 and 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
John Edwards may also refer to:
Entertainment
- John Edwards (1699–1776), Welsh poet
- John Edwards (1747–1792), Welsh poet
- John Edwards (1751–1832), Irish poet
- John Edwards (painter), English painter, designer, illustrator and botanist
- John Kelt Edwards, Welsh artist and cartoonist
- John Paul Edwards, American photographer
- John Uzzell Edwards, Welsh painter
- John Edwards (singer), American R&B singer for the Spinners
- John Edwards (musician), English bass guitarist for Status Quo
- John Edwards (producer), Australian television drama producer
- Johnny Edwards (musician), American singer for the band Foreigner
Politics
United States
- John Edwards (Kentucky politician), Anti-Administration party
- John Edwards (Charleston politician), mayor of Charleston, South Carolina
- John Edwards Caldwell, consular agent for the West Indies and San Domingo
- John Stark Edwards, Ohio's 6th congressional district
- John Edwards (New York politician), 15th congressional district, 1837–1839
- John Edwards (Pennsylvania politician), 4th congressional district Anti-Mason and Whig
- John C. Edwards, Democrat from Missouri; Congress at-large ; governor
- John Edwards (Arkansas politician), 3rd congressional district
- John Edwards (Wisconsin politician), Wisconsin State Assembly
- John H. Edwards (banker), Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
- John S. Edwards (Virginia politician), in the Senate of Virginia
- John Edwards (Rhode Island politician), state legislator in Rhode Island
- John Bel Edwards, Governor of Louisiana
- John Charles Edwards, Arkansas House of Representatives
United Kingdom
- John Edwards, MP for Bridgwater
- John Edwards (MP for Denbighshire), MP for Denbighshire
- John Edwards, MP for Flint Boroughs
- Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, of Garth, British MP for Montgomery
- John Edwards-Vaughan, British MP for Glamorganshire and Wells
- John Passmore Edwards, British Liberal MP for Salisbury, elected in 1880; also newspaperman and philanthropist
- J. Hugh Edwards, British Liberal MP for Mid Glamorgan ; Neath ; Accrington
- John Edwards (Welsh politician), British Liberal MP for Aberavon
- John Edwards (Labour politician), British MP for Blackburn ; Brighouse and Spenborough
Elsewhere
- John Edwards (Australian politician), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
- John Wesley Edwards, Conservative politician from Ontario; House of Commons
- John Edwards (regulator), New Zealand-born Information Commissioner for the United Kingdom
Religion
- John Edwards (divine), English Calvinistic divine
- John Edwards (minister), English dissenting minister at Leeds, Yorkshire
- John Edwards (Unitarian minister), English nonconformist and political radical
- John Edwards (missionary), American protestant minister to the Choctaw Nation, best known for work at Wheelock Mission in present-day Oklahoma
- John Edwards (hymnist), Welsh Anglican priest and hymn composer
- John Edwards (archdeacon of St Asaph), Welsh Anglican priest
Sports
- John Hawley Edwards, footballer in England and Wales; a founder of Welsh Football Association
- Jack Edwards (cricketer, born 1860), Australian cricketer
- John Edwards (footballer, born 1875), English soccer player
- John Edwards (Canadian football), Canadian football player
- John Edwards (cricketer, born 1928), Australian cricketer
- John Edwards (Barbadian cricketer), Barbadian cricketer
- John Edwards (Australian footballer), Australian rules footballer
- John Edwards (canoeist), Canadian sprint canoer
- John Edwards (basketball), American basketball player
- John Edwards (racing driver), American racing driver
- Johnny Edwards (baseball), American MLB National League catcher
Other
- John Edwards (academic), professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University 1638–1648
- John Edwards (Siôn Treredyn), Welsh translator who used the pen name "Siôn Treredyn"
- John Edwards (American Civil War sailor), member of U.S. Navy who was awarded Medal of Honor during the Civil War
- John Newman Edwards, American frontier writer and newspaperman
- John D. Edwards, American naval officer awarded the Navy Cross
- John Bryn Edwards, Welsh ironmaster and philanthropist
- John Ellis Edwards, Tuskegee airman
- John Menlove Edwards, English child psychologist and poet
- John H. Edwards, British medical geneticist
- John Robert Edwards, professor of psychology and language in Nova Scotia
- John A. Edwards, Irish judge
- John M. Edwards, professor of surgery
- John Edwards (British Army officer)
- John R. Edwards (US Marshal), American law enforcement officer from Vermont
- John R. Edwards (general), United States Air Force general
- John Edwards, Scottish lawyer, palaeographer and collector, see Edwards Professor of Medieval History
- John Timothy Edwards, Florida State University student murdered in 1994, see Murder of John Edwards