John Holmes


John or Jon Holmes may refer to:

People

Arts and entertainment

  • John Holmes , American pornographic actor and murder suspect
  • John Holmes , English musician and composer
  • John Holmes , American poet
  • John Clellon Holmes, American Beat poet, novelist and essayist
  • John Eric Holmes, American author and promoter of fantasy role-playing games
  • John W. Holmes , American film editor
  • John Holmes MBE, associated with BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Nottingham
  • Jon Holmes, British comedy writer and broadcaster

    Diplomacy

  • John Holmes , British diplomat
  • John T. Holmes, Canadian ambassador to Indonesia and East Timor
  • John Wendell Holmes, Canadian diplomat and academic

    Education

  • John Holmes, Australian professor of geography
  • John Holmes , English schoolmaster
  • John Clough Holmes, American merchant; Agricultural College of the State of Michigan progenitor

    Military or mercenary service

  • John Holmes , British general
  • John Holmes, 19th century Anglo-Indian mercenary
  • John Holmes , English naval officer

    Politics

  • John Holmes, MP for Ripon and Boroughbridge
  • John Holmes, MP for Rye
  • John Holmes , member of U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives
  • John Holmes , New Zealand Member of Parliament
  • John Holmes , Canadian Senator
  • John Holmes , Canadian MP
  • John Bee Holmes, intendant of Charleston, South Carolina
  • John Edwin Holmes, first Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
  • John Robert Holmes, Canadian MP
  • John Holmes , planter, slave-owner and member of the House of Assembly of Jamaica

    Religion

  • John Holmes , Anglican colonial bishop
  • John Haynes Holmes, American churchman and pacifist
  • John McClellan Holmes, Christian minister and author

    Sports

  • John Holmes , English footballer
  • John Holmes , English cricketer
  • Johnny Holmes, American baseball player of the 1940s
  • John Holmes , English former rugby league footballer
  • John Holmes , Australian rugby league player
  • John Holmes , American golfer
  • John Holmes , American football player

    Other fields

  • John Holmes , English antiquarian
  • John Holmes , radical campaigner
  • John Holmes , Plymouth Colony settler and official
  • John Henry Holmes, English electrical engineer, inventor and Quaker
  • John Dalrymple Edgar Holmes, British veterinary scientist and bacteriologist

    Fictional characters

  • John Hamish Adler Holme or Auguste Lupa, a fictional character in novels by John Lescroart