John Davis

John Davis is the name of several persons:

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• 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 Davis, pastoralist and MLC in colonial Western Australia.
• 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). http://www-old.aad.gov.au/environment/cultural_heritage/mawsons_hut_man_plan/03maws.pdfhttp://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/~ota/disk1/1989/8926/892604.PDFhttp://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)
• John Davis, film producer who has produced many films by 20th Century Fox.
• John Davis, singer/songwriter and former member of Superdrag
• John Davis, 19th century English medical lecturer, associate of William Sturgeon and James Prescott Joule.
• John Davis (weightlifter), (1921-1984), American, Olympic gold medalist
• John Davis (Kansas politician), (1826–1901), U.S. Congressional representative for Kansas