John Davis
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John Davis is the name of several persons:
- John Davis (1550?-1605), an English navigator and explorer.
- Captain John Davis, English buccaneer.
- Sir John Francis Davis, second Governor of Hong Kong.
- John Davis (1787-1854), Governor of the U.S. state the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- John W. Davis, the Democratic candidate in the 1924 U.S. presidential election who lost to Calvin Coolidge.
- Captain John Davis, a sealer, the first American claimed to have set foot on Antarctica (February 7th, 1821). [1] (http://www-old.aad.gov.au/environment/cultural_heritage/mawsons_hut_man_plan/03maws.pdf)[2] (http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/~ota/disk1/1989/8926/892604.PDF)[3] (http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/resources/infosheets/19.html).
- John Davis, an American film producer and founder of Davis Entertainment.
- John Davis, drummer from US Rock band Q And Not U
- John Davis, briefly a MLB player (1915-2002)