John Murray
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There have been several important people by the name of John Murray (roughly in chronological order):
- John Murray (1660-1724), 1st Duke of Atholl
- John Murray (1730–1809), Lord Dunmore, colonial governor of Virginia
- John Murray (minister) (1741-1815), "father of American Universalism"
- John Murray (aristocrat), Lord of the Isle of Man from 1764 to 1765
- John Murray, the English former cricketer
- John Murray (publisher), London publishing house of Jane Austen, Lord Byron and Charles Darwin, associated with seven generations of people called John Murray.
- John Murray (colonial administrator) (1739-1824) was governor of the Cape Breton colony in today's Nova Scotia
- John Murray (American congressman), served as a representative from 1817 to 1820
- Sir John Murray (oceanographer), 1841-1914, "founder of modern oceanography"
- John Wilson Murray, police detective born in England who worked in the United States and Canada during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- John Murray (VC), the recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Archbishop John Gregory Murray, Archbishop of Saint Paul from 1931 to 1956
- John Murray (Australian politician), Premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912
- John Murray (theologian), 1898-1975, Calvinist theologian, Presbyterian minister, professor at Princeton Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary.
- John Murray (actor), born 1958, starred in Moving Violations
- There are at least a dozen other minor actors named John Murray
- John Joseph Murray, stock broker and founder of Putt for Progress, killed in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack