John Murray
John Murray or Murry may refer to:
Arts and media
Literature and music
- John Murray (publishing house), a British publishing house, founded by John Murray
- John Murray (publisher, born 1778), second head of the publishing house
- John Murray III, third head of the publishing house
- John Murray (Australian writer), Australian epidemiologist and writer
- John Murray (novelist), British novelist
- John Middleton Murry, writer
- John Middleton Murry Jr., English writer
- John Murry (musician), American musician
- John Murray Graham, Scottish historian, in early life John Murray
Screen, radio and performing arts
- John Murray (Irish broadcaster), Irish broadcaster and journalist
- John Murray (playwright), American playwright, co-author of Room Service
- John Murray (sports broadcaster), English sports commentator
- John T. Murray, Australian-born actor
- Johnny Murray (voice actor), voice actor known for Bosko, the first star of Warner Brothers cartoons
- John B. Murray (filmmaker), Australian filmmaker and author
Sportspeople
Association football
- John Murray (footballer, born 1865), Scottish international footballer who played club football for Vale of Leven, Sunderland, and Blackburn Rovers
- John Murray (footballer, born 1874), Scottish international footballer who played club football for Renton and Dundee
- John Murray (footballer, born 1927), England footballer who played club football for Gillingham
- John Murray (footballer, born 1948), English footballer
- John Murray (Irish footballer), Irish footballer
Other
- John Murray (athlete), Irish Olympic athlete who competed for Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Jack Murray (Australian footballer), Australian rules footballer
- John Murray (boxer), lightweight English boxer
- John Murray (cricketer, born 1935), English cricketer
- John Murray (cricketer, born 1873), Scottish cricketer and RAF officer
- John Murray (cricketer, born 1882), Scottish cricketer and British Army officer
- John Murray (ice hockey, born 1923), British ice hockey player
- John Murray (ice hockey, born 1987), American ice hockey player
- John Murray (rugby union), Irish rugby union player
- John Murray (sports broadcaster), English broadcaster for BBC Radio 5 Live
- Johnny Murray (footballer), Irish footballer during the 1920s
- John A. Murray (jockey) in Singapore Gold Cup
Law and politics
United Kingdom and Britain
- John Murray, 1st Earl of Tullibardine, Scottish courtier and leader of the Clan Murray
- John Murray, 1st Earl of Annandale, Scottish courtier and MP for Guildford
- John Murray, Lord Bowhill, MP in the first Parliament of Great Britain 1707–1708
- John Murray (died 1753), British MP for the Linlithgow Burghs, 1725–1734, Selkirkshire, 1734–1753
- Lord John Murray, British general and MP for Perthshire, 1734–1761
- John Murray of Broughton, Jacobite and secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- John Murray (1726–1800), British MP for the Linlithgow Burghs, 1754–1761
- John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, MP for Perthshire 1761–1764, Lord of the Isle of Man from 1764 to 1765
- John Murray (colonial administrator), governor of the Cape Breton colony in today's Nova Scotia
- John Murray (British diplomat), ambassador to the Ottoman Empire 1765–1775
- Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet, British MP for Wootton Bassett 1807–1811, Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1811–1818
- John Murray, 5th Duke of Atholl, British Army officer and landowner in Scotland
- John Murray, Lord Murray, British MP for the Leith Burghs, 1832–1839
- Sir Hubert Murray, judge and lieutenant-governor of Papua
- John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, British peer
Scotland
- John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, leading Scottish royalist
- John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, Scottish nobleman and politician
- John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, colonial governor of Virginia and later the Bahamas
- John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, Scottish peer
- John Wilson Murray, Scottish-born police detective who worked in the US and Canada during the late 19th/early 20th centuries
- John Murray (Liberal politician), Scottish civil servant, university administrator and Liberal Party politician
- John Murray, Lord Dervaird, Scottish judge
Ireland
- John Murray (Monaghan MP), MP for County Monaghan 1741–43
- John L. Murray (judge), Irish judge
United States
- John Murray (Massachusetts politician), representative to the Great and General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
- John Murray (congressman), U.S. representative from Pennsylvania
- John F. Murray (politician), second borough president of The Bronx
- John L. Murray (representative), U.S. representative from Kentucky
- John Porry Murray, Confederate politician
- John E. Murray Jr., professor of law and chancellor of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- John S. Murray (Iowa politician), American politician from the state of Iowa
- John S. Murray (Washington politician), American politician in the state of Washington
Australia
- John Murray (pastoralist), member of the Queensland Parliament from 1888 to 1903
- John Murray (Victorian politician), premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912
- John Murray (Queensland politician), member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1958 to 1961
- John Murray (New South Wales politician), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2003
Other
- John Murray (judge), Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia from 1955 to 1961
- J. R. Murray, Ceylonese accountant and politician in colonial Ceylon
Military
- John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore, Scottish peer and British Army general
- Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet, general, led a brigade under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War
- John Murray (Australian explorer), Royal Navy officer
- John B. Murray (general), American general
- John Ivor Murray, Scottish surgeon who practised in China, Hong Kong and then in Sebastopol in the Crimean War
- Sir John Irvine Murray, Scottish general who raised the 14th Murray's Jat Lancers
- John Murray (native police officer), Native Police officer in Queensland, Australia
- John Murray (Irish soldier), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- John Murray (Australian Army general), general in the Australian Army
- John M. Murray, United States Army general
- John E. Murray, United States Army general
- Sir John Macgregor Murray, 1st Baronet, Scottish army officer
Religion and theology
- John Murray (minister), minister and inspirational figure sometimes called the "founder of American Universalism"
- John Gardner Murray, Episcopal bishop of Maryland and Presiding Bishop
- John Owen Farquhar Murray, Anglican clergyman and master of Selwyn College, Cambridge
- John Gregory Murray, Roman Catholic archbishop of Saint Paul
- John Murray (theologian), Scottish-born Calvinist theologian and Presbyterian minister
- John J. Murray, pastor and author
- John W. Murray, pastor, evangelist, and president of Shelton College
- John Murray (provost of [St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow)], priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church
- John Courtney Murray, Jesuit priest and theologian
- John Murray (archdeacon of Dublin), priest in the Church of Ireland
- John Murray (archdeacon of Cashel)
- John Murray (dean of Killaloe), Anglican priest in Ireland
- John Walton Murray, Irish Anglican priest and author
Science
- John Murray (physician), Scottish geologist and lecturer in various scientific subjects
- John Murray (science lecturer), Scottish geologist
- Sir John Murray (oceanographer), Scots-Canadian marine biologist credited as the "father of modern oceanography"
- John O'Kane Murray, Irish physician and author
- John Murray (geographer), Scottish educator and author
- John F. Murray, American pulmonologist and researcher
- John Murray (professor of robotics)
Others
- John Murray (abolitionist), leading light in Glasgow Emancipation Society
- John Murray (Naperville founder), one of the original settlers of Naperville, Illinois in 1831
- John Murray (sheep breeder), father, and son, breeders of merino sheep in South Australia
- John Lamb Murray, Scottish architect
- John Bunion Murray, self-taught artist in Glascock County, Georgia
- John Clark Murray, Scottish philosopher and professor