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John (name) / Johan (name) / Johann (name)
(name) Keynes / John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), influential British economist / Cairns, city in Queensland, Australia
Milton (name) / John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Paradise Lost
John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain / Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist
McCain (name) / John McCain (1936-2018), US Republican politician, Senator for Arizona 1987-2018
John (less common form of 若望 or 約翰|约翰)
Gospel according to St John
First epistle of St John
John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner
Neumann (surname) / John von Neumann (1903-1957), Hungarian-born American mathematician and polymath
(Tw) John Lennon (1940-1980), English singer, guitarist, and songwriter
Napier (name) / John Napier (1550-1617), Scottish mathematician, inventor of logarithms / Napier, city in New Zealand
Saint John
John / Saint John / less common variant of 約翰|约翰 preferred by the Catholic Church
Third epistle of St John
the Revelation of St John the divine / the Apocalypse
Dalton (name) / John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed to atomic theory
St John's, capital of Labrador and Newfoundland province, Canada
John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962), second-generation American missionary in China, first president of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China
John the Baptist
Nicodemus, prominent Jew of the time of Christ, mentioned in the Gospel of John
(name) Wallis / John Wallis (1616-1703), English mathematician
Gospel of John (used in Catholic Bible translations)
John the Baptist
John Rabe (1882-1950), German who helped protect Chinese during the Nanking massacre period
Papa John's (pizza chain)
Johns Hopkins University
the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, located in Nanjing, est. 1986 (formally, the Johns Hopkins University - Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies)
Pilgrim's Progress, 1678 novel by John Bunyan (first Chinese translation 1851)
Eriugena, John Scottus (c. 810-880) Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher of Neoplatonism
John Steinbeck (1902-1968), US novelist
St John the Baptist
John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Second epistle of St John
John Paul (name) / Pope John Paul II, Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920-2005), Pope 1978-2005
First epistle of St John / also written 約翰一書|约翰一书
Second epistle of St John / also written 約翰二書|约翰二书
John Huang (1945-), Democratic Party fundraiser


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