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# John D. Alexander (admiral)

John David Alexander (born 1959) is a retired United States Navy vice admiral and naval flight officer who last served as the 29th commander of the United States Third Fleet from September 15, 2017 to September 27, 2019. Prior to that, he held command tours as the commanding officer of USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) from January 2010 to September 2012, and commanding officer of the USS Juneau (LPD-10) from 2006 to 2007.
A native of Port Neches, Texas, Alexander graduated from the Aviation Officer Candidate School program in December 1982 and was designated a naval flight officer in November 1983. He graduated with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech University and an M.A. degree in Defense Studies from King’s College of the University of London as well as completing the Royal Naval Staff College Course, Greenwich (UK) and the U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program.
# John Giles (MP fl. 1417–1435)

John Giles (fl. 1417–1435) was an English politician and attorney.
His wife was named Alice. He had two sons, including MP Robert Giles.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Old Sarum in 1417, Marlborough in December 1421, Calne in 1422 and 1423, Wilton in 1425, and Devizes in 1431, 1432 and 1435.
# John Gildred

John Taylor Gildred (born August 23, 1970) is an American entrepreneur and business executive known for his work in consumer electronics and online media technology. Gildred originally established his reputation in 1994 at OpenSoft, an Internet communications software company. Later in 1999, Gildred became well known as the founder of Indrema, a consumer electronics company which developed, but ultimately never released, a highly anticipated Linux-based game console for independent game developers. Gildred cited a receding market for venture capital in 2001 as a primary factor in the decision to cancel mass production of the game system. After Indrema, Gildred joined Pioneer Electronics to head product development for digital television and Blu-ray as well as Pioneer's Advanced Technology Group. While at Pioneer, he formed a subsidiary named SyncTV, a multi-CE company initiative to provide over-the-top television service to all TV manufacturers. In 2009 SyncTV was sold to Intertrust Technologies.
# John E. Counts

Dr. John E. Counts is the fourteenth president of Western New Mexico University, a position he held from November 1993 to June 2011.
Counts worked at the university as Professor of Management and Director of the Division of Business, Math and Computer Science for one year before becoming president.
# John Holden (British Army officer)

Major-General John Reid Holden, CB, CBE, DSO (1913–1995) was a British Army officer.

## Military career

Holden was commissioned into the Royal Tank Corps (later the Royal Tank Regiment) in January 1937. He saw action in the Middle East Campaign during the Second World War for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.
After the war he became Chief of British Mission to Soviet Forces in Europe in October 1961, Director of the Royal Armoured Corps in January 1965 and General Officer Commanding 43rd (Wessex) Division/District in February 1963 before retiring in December 1964.
He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1961 New Year Honours and a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1965 Birthday Honours.
# John Holden (artist)

John Holden (born 1942) studied at Medway College of Art & Design (1959–63) and the Royal Academy Schools London (1963–66). His work is held in public and private collections worldwide.
He was Head of Fine Art at John Moores University until his retirement in July 2000. (award a sabbatical from John Moores University in 1998).
Solo shows include ‘ The Liverpool Years’ Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax (1996), Liverpool University Senate House (1997), Bury Art Gallery (1997).
Group exhibitions include John Moores, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1995), Hunting Prizes, London (1996, 98, 99, 2001, 03, 04), Jerwood Drawing Open & Tour 2004/5.
Recent shows: with Paul Mason (sculptor) at Fermyn Woods Contemporary Art (2004), the Redbrick Mill, Batley (2004), Discerning Eye, invited 2005; Royal West of England Academy Open Painting (2005); Chichester Painting Open (2005).
# John J. McNally (businessman)

John "Jack" J. McNally Jr. (1928 – November 21, 2018) was an American businessman who worked as the Staff Assistant for Congressional Liaisons during the Presidency of John F. Kennedy.

## Biography

McNally was born in 1928, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He attended Saint John's High School, later attending Northeastern University and Becker College. He served in the United States Army during World War II, and later became president of Webster Enterprises, a heating supplies company.
As the director of the Young Democrats of Worcester County, McNally began working for John F. Kennedy during the 1956 Democratic National Convention. He served as the Staff Assistant for Congressional Liaisons, and planned international trips. He also oversaw the State funeral of John F. Kennedy, and left the White House in 1965.
He retired from politics in 1990 and moved to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. He married Irene M. McNally, who died in 2002. He died on November 21, 2018, aged 89 or 90.
# John Ellicott (clockmaker)

John Ellicott (London, 1706–1772), was an English clock and watchmaker of the 18th century.
His father, a Cornishman, John Ellicott (-1733), was also a clockmaker and had been admitted to the Clockmakers' Company in 1696. John Ellicott (jnr) conducted business first from Austin Friars Street EC2 and later from Swithin’s Alley, Royal Exchange, and in 1738 was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. He showed a keen interest in scientific matters and maintained an observatory at his home in Hackney. He was best known for his work on temperature compensated pendulums and his use of the cylinder escapement. His quality workmanship led to an appointment as Clockmaker to George III.
His son Edward (-1791), joined the business in 1760. Over their twelve-year partnership, their clocks were simply signed Ellicott, London.
# John Gragg

John Gragg is a former American football coach. He was the head football coach at McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas, serving for one season, in 1978, and compiling a record of 5–4.

## Head coaching record

| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing |
| McPherson Bulldogs (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1978) ||||||
| 1978 | McPherson | 5–4 | 5–3 | T–3rd |
| McPherson: | McPherson: | 5–4 | 5–3 | |
| Total: | Total: | 5–4 | | |
# John Harvey (RAAF officer)

Air Marshal John Paul Harvey AM (born 4 September 1954) was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) until his retirement at the end of 2011. He held the position of Chief Capability Development Group from October 2010 until December 2011.

## Military career
### Early career

Harvey joined the RAAF as a navigator in 1977. After completing navigator training at RAAF Base East Sale he was posted to Canberra bomber aircraft at RAAF Base Amberley.
After four years flying Canberra aircraft, Harvey was appointed as the Minister for Defence's escort officer.
Harvey converted to the F-111 and completed a three-year flying tour on F-111. Following this he was appointed to the Joint Intelligence Organisation in Technical Intelligence where he served for three years. Harvey was then posted to the United States Air Force as the Flight Test Director for the F-111 Avionics Update Project.
Harvey spent a year on exchange with the New Zealand Ministry of Defence before taking up a Visiting Fellow position with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.
After leaving the Australian National University Harvey was appointed the Defence Attaché to Southern Europe.

## Senior command

Harvey was promoted to air commodore and posted as Director General Aerospace Development and on 2 September 2002 he was appointed Director General Air Combat Capability.
In November 2006, Harvey was promoted to air vice marshal and appointed Program Manager New Air Combat Capability within the Defence Materiel Organisation.
In the 2008 Australia Day Honours, Harvey was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "exceptional service to the Australian Defence Force and Royal Australian Air Force as the Program Manager, New Air Combat Capability".
In October 2010, following the resignation of Vice Admiral Matt Tripovich, Harvey was promoted to the rank of air marshal and appointed as Chief Capability Development Group.

### Retirement

At the beginning of December 2011, Harvey's position as Chief of the Capability Development Group was made answerable to a new civilian appointee. Harvey objected to the new arrangement, and subsequently tended his resignation from the RAAF; according to the Canberra Times, he "is not going to another position in Defence".

## Personal life

Harvey has degrees in architecture from the University of New South Wales as well as psychology and information science.

## Honours and awards

| Member of the Order of Australia (AM) | 26 January 2008 |
| Australian Service Medal | |
| Defence Force Service Medal | 30–34 years service |
| Australian Defence Medal | |
# John Klunder

John Heinz Cornelis Klunder (born 22 November 1940) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seats of Newland from 1977 to 1979 and 1982 to 1985 and Todd from 1985 to 1993 for the Labor Party.
Todd was abolished before the 1993 election and Klunder contested the new seat of Torrens but was defeated by Liberal candidate Joe Tiernan.
Klunder then retired from politics and did not contest the Torrens by-election when Tiernan died months later.
The by-election was won by ALP candidate Robyn Geraghty.
# John Knapp-Fisher

John Knapp-Fisher (August 1931 – 21 February 2015) was a British painter known particularly for his depictions of the coast of Pembrokeshire, West Wales. He worked from his studio in Croesgoch since 1967. He exhibited his paintings across Europe and also Africa and North America. In 1992 he was elected a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art.

## Early life

John Knapp-Fisher was born in 1931, the son of Arthur Bedford Knapp-Fisher, Professor of Architecture at London's Royal College of Art. John was educated at the Maidstone College of Art where he studied graphic design. Subsequently he worked in exhibition design and theatre design, but also began painting. In 1965 he moved to Pembrokeshire, Wales.

## Career

Knapp-Fisher claimed he painted every day. "I tell students to do something every day – even if it’s a quick thumbnail sketch... Rather like a dancer has to practise every day, a painter has to oil the hinges by doing little drawings." He preferred to paint from notes and drawings in his sketchbooks, rather than from photographs. As a result his favorite subjects were local to his studio, for example Porthgain Harbour.
Knapp-Fisher's largest exhibition was in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he displayed over 60 paintings.
To mark his 80th birthday in August 2011, Knapp-Fisher was featured on the BBC Radio Wales Arts Show. He also held an exhibition of new paintings at the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff.

## Personal life

Knapp-Fisher once spent 5 years living on a boat in East Anglia. He resided in Croesgoch with his partner, Gillian Pare. Knapp-Fisher died at Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest in February 2015 age 83.
# John Greenhill

John Greenhill (c. 1644 – 19 May 1676) was an English portrait painter, a pupil of Peter Lely, who approached his teacher in artistic excellence, but whose life was cut short by a dissolute lifestyle.

## Life and work

Greenhill was born at Salisbury, Wiltshire around 1644, the eldest son of John Greenhill, registrar of the diocese of Salisbury, and Penelope Champneys, daughter of Richard Champneys of Orchardleigh, Somerset. His father was connected through his brothers with the East India trade. John's younger brother Henry became Governor of the Gold Coast and a commissioner of the Navy.
Greenhill was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School. His first attempt at a portrait was one of his paternal uncle James Abbott of Salisbury, whom he is said to have sketched surreptitiously, as the old man would not sit for him. About 1662 he moved to London and became a pupil of Peter Lely. His progress was rapid, and he acquired some of Lely's skill and method. He carefully studied Vandyck's portraits, and George Vertue commented that he copied so closely Vandyck's portrait of "Thomas Killigrew and his dog" that it was difficult to know which was the original. Vertue also says that his progress excited Lely's jealousy.
Greenhill was at first industrious, and married early. But a taste for poetry and drama, and living in Covent Garden in the vicinity of the theatres, led him to associate with many members of the free-living theatrical world, and he fell into "irregular habits". On 19 May 1676, while returning from the Vine Tavern (in Holborn) in a state of intoxication, he fell into the gutter in Long Acre, and was carried to his lodgings in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he died the same night. He was buried in St Giles in the Fields church. He left a widow and family, to whom Lely gave an annuity.
Among Greenhill's personal admirers was dramatist Aphra Behn, who kept up an amorous correspondence with him, and lamented his early death in a fulsome panegyric.

## Portraits

Greenhill's portraits are of great merit, often approaching those of Lely in excellence. Among his chief sitters were Bishop Seth Ward, in the Guildhall at Salisbury, painted in 1673; Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, painted more than once during his chancellorship in 1672 (engraved by Abraham Blooteling); John Locke, who wrote some verses in Greenhill's praise (engraved by Pieter van Gunst); Sir William D'Avenant (engraved by William Faithorne); Philip Woolrich (engraved in mezzotint by Francis Place); poet Abraham Cowley, Admiral Edward Spragge and others.
Greenhill painted a self-portrait, now hanging in the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London (engraved in Wornum's edition of Horace Walpole's "Anecdotes of Painting"). He also drew a portrait of himself, as did Lely.
# John Lagrand

John Lagrand may refer to:
* John Lagrand (politician) (1849–?), Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Milwaukee
* John Lagrand (musician) (1949–2005), Dutch musician
# John McCammon

John McCammon, of Belfast, developed an early safety bicycle in 1884. It had a step-through frame.
# John McCallum (naval architect)

John (Ian) McCallum (13 Oct 1920 – 15 Feb 1995) was a Scottish naval architect. He was the Chief Ship Designer for the Queen Elizabeth the Second liner, which was built by John Brown & Company where he was also Technical Director. He also became the Chief Ship Surveyor of Lloyd's Register of shipping (1970–81).
McCallum was born on 13 October 1920, to parents Hugh Beith McCallum (Engineer and Old Contemptible) and Agnes Falconer Wood McCallum (née Walker). He was Educated at Allan Glen's School in Glasgow and at the University of Glasgow, graduating with a First Class degree in Naval Architecture.
McCallum was subsequently apprenticed to John Brown & Co, Clydebank, between 1938 and 1943. He became Junior Lecturer in Naval Architecture at the University of Glasgow during 1943–44. In 1944 he began a long period with Lloyd's Register, first in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1944, Glasgow in 1949 and London in 1953. He was Lloyd's Chief Ship Surveyor from 1970 until his retirement in 1981.
# John Kennett Starnes

John Kennett Starnes (February 5, 1918 – December 23, 2014) was a Canadian civil servant, diplomat, and novelist.
Born in Montreal, Quebec to Henry Kennett Starnes and his wife, Altha Ella (née McCrea), Starnes was educated at Selwyn House School, Trinity College School, the Institute Sillig in Switzerland, the University of Munich and Bishop's University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. During World War II, he served with the Black Watch, the Canadian Intelligence Corps (1941), the Canadian War Staff College (1942), and the 21st Army Group in the United Kingdom. He was discharged in 1944 with the rank of captain.
After the War, Starnes joined the Public Service of Canada in the Department of External Affairs, where he served from 1944 to 1970. He and his wife, fellow Montrealer Helen Gordon (née Robinson), began their diplomatic service abroad at the Canadian Embassy in Bonn from 1953 and from 1956 to 1958 at the NATO secretariat in Paris. The same year, the pair returned to Ottawa, with Mr. Starnes again working in intelligence for External Affairs.
He was appointed Canadian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany from 1962 to 1966 and Ambassador to Egypt and Sudan from 1966–67, when he oversaw the withdrawal of the Canadian contingent of the UN Emergency Force set up after the Suez Crisis. From 1967 to 1970 he was Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs. He resigned from the Public Service in 1970 and was appointed Director General, Security and Intelligence Directorate for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. During his tenure as Director General of the Security Service, Starnes resisted efforts by the Prime Minister’s Office to collect intelligence on the Quebec separatist movement, as Starnes saw that as a politicization of his organization. He retired in 1973.
He is the author of Deep Sleepers (1981), Scarab (1982), Orion's Belt (1983), The Cornish Hug (1985), and Latonya (1994). His memoir, Closely Guarded: A Life in Canadian Security and Intelligence was published by the University of Toronto Press in 1998. His sons are Colin Starnes and Patrick Starnes.
# John Kirk (VC)

John Kirk VC (July 1827 – 31 August 1865) was an English soldier in the British Army who served in the Second Anglo-Sikh War and the Indian Mutiny. He is notable as a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

## Details

Kirk was approximately 29 years old, and a private in the 10th Regiment of Foot (later The Lincolnshire Regiment), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed on 4 June 1857 at Benares, India led to the award of the Victoria Cross to him, Peter Gill and Matthew Rosamund:
   For daring gallantry at Benares, on the 4th of June, 1857, on the outbreak of the mutiny of the Native Troops at that station, in having volunteered to proceed with two Non-commissioned Officers to rescue Captain Brown, Pension Paymaster, and his family, who were surrounded by rebels in the compound of their house; and having, at the risk of his own life, succeeded in saving them.
John Kirk died of tuberculosis on 31 August 1865. He is buried in Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool.

## The Medal

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life, in Lincoln, England.
# John Munn

John Munn may refer to:
* John Munn (Manitoba politician) (1882–1941), Manitoba veterinarian and politician
* John Munn (shipbuilder) (1788–1859), shipbuilder and politician in Lower Canada
* John Munn (Newfoundland politician) (1807–1879), Newfoundland businessman and politician
* John C. Munn - United States Marine Corps general officer
* John Shannon Munn (1880–1918), Newfoundland businessman and first-class cricketer
# John Neale (bishop)

John Robert Geoffrey Neale AKC (21 September 1926 – 17 July 2020) was a British Anglican bishop. From 1974 to 1988, he was the first suffragan Bishop of Ramsbury in the Church of England and the first area bishop under that diocese's 1981–2009 area scheme.
Neale was educated at Felsted School and then served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He completed his studies at King's College London and St Boniface's Warminster, then began his ordained ministry as a curate in St Helier. He was made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1955 (5 June) and ordained a priest the following Trinity Sunday (27 May 1956) – both times by Bertram Simpson, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral. He was then, successively, the chaplain of Ardingly College, Secretary of the Advisory Council for Church Ministry, Canon Missioner for the Diocese of Guildford and Rector of St Peter's Hascombe before his consecration to the episcopate on 24 January 1974 by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey. From October that year until 1980, he also served as Archdeacon of Wilts in the same diocese. From 1991 he was an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Bristol, having moved into Corsham, Wiltshire as well as, simultaneously, in the Diocese of Gloucester from 1994.
He died in July 2020, at the age of 93. His papers are housed at the National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives.
# John Reese

John Reese may refer to:

## People

* John Reese (baseball) (1895–?), outfielder in the Negro leagues
* John Reese (cricketer) (1877–1971), New Zealand cricketer
* John D. Reese (1855–1931), American Major League Baseball trainer
* John H. Reese (1910–1981), American author of Western fiction
* John N. Reese Jr. (1923–1945), American posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
* John P. Reese (born 1953), American money manager and financial columnist
* John Earl Reese (1939–1955), murdered African American teenager
* John Terence Reese (1913–1996), British bridge player and writer
* John Reese, American musical producer for the Uproar Festival

## Characters

* John Reese (Person of Interest), a main character from the television series Person of Interest
* John Connor, alias in television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
# John Lucie Blackman

John Lucie Blackman (4 October 1793 – 18 June 1815) was a British soldier who fought in the Peninsular War, and is notable for being one of the 47,000 casualties of the Battle of Waterloo, where he died on 18 June 1815, at age 21.

## Early life

Blackman was born on 4 October 1793 at Bridewell Hospital Chapel, London. He was the son of George Blackman, who would later change his name to Harnage on his elevation to the peerage and Mary Harnage, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Harnage. His parents were cousins and Blackman was christened on 30 October 1793 at Bridewell Hospital Chapel, London. He was educated at Westminster school until 1808, whereafter he joined the British Army.

## Military career

Having joined the Coldstream Guards as an ensign by purchase on 10 April 1810, he arrived in Spain in early 1812 as part of Sir Arthur Wellesley's army. He fought at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812 and was present at the Siege of Burgos from 19 September to 21 October the same year. He marched into France in 1813, where he took part in the Battle of Vitoria on 21 June 1813 and the subsequent Siege of San Sebastián from July until September.
Blackman was promoted to lieutenant on 22 January 1814 and during the Hundred Days took part in conflicts including the Battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815.

## Death and legacy

Blackman spent the day of the Battle of Waterloo defending the Château of Hougoumont against the French. As the last of the enemy fled the field, a musket bull struck him in the temple, killing him instantly.
Although the grounds of Château Hougoumont contain a stone marking Blackman's grave, his remains were moved to the Waterloo monument in Brussels Cemetery in 1889.
Blackman's name is inscribed on one of the panels in the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London.
# John Luck

John Edmund Luck (1840–1896) OSB was the fourth Catholic bishop of Auckland, New Zealand (1882–1896). He was born in England.
Luck Crescent in Monte Cecilia Park, Hillsborough, Auckland was named in his honour in 1982.