John Hawkins Explained

John Hawkins may refer to:

Public officials

• John Hawkins (naval commander) (1532–1595), English admiral
• John Hawkins (17th century diplomat), ambassador of the Kingdom of England to France, 1626–1627
• John Hawkins (MP) (c. 1611–?), English politician
• John Hawkins (burgess), member of the Virginia House of Burgesses
• John Hawkins (Maryland politician), American politician
• John Heywood Hawkins (1802 - 1877), British politician
• John Parker Hawkins (1830–1914), U.S. Civil War brigadier general
• John Joseph Hawkins (1840–1916), politician in Ontario, Canada
• John A. Hawkins (New York politician) (1864–1941), New York politician
• John J. Hawkins (1855–1935), American jurist and politician in the Arizona Territory
• John Clifford Hawkins (1879–?), African American lawyer and political figure
• John Hawkins (diplomat) (born 1960), British ambassador to Qatar
• John D. Hawkins (born 1968), South Carolina politician

Writers

• John Hawkins (grammarian) (c. 1587–c. 1641), English physician, grammarian and translator
• John Hawkins (author) (1719–1789), English music historian
• John Sidney Hawkins (baptised 1758–1842), English antiquarian, son of the music historian
• John Hawkins (geologist) (1761–1841), English geologist and writer
• John A. Hawkins (linguist) (born 1950), English linguist

Musicians

• John Hawkins (English composer), co-composed 1964's Canterbury Tales
• John Hawkins (Canadian composer) (1944–2007), Canadian classical composer
• Big Hawk, American rapper whose real name was John Hawkins (1969–2006)

Other

• John Hawkins (archdeacon of Totnes) (1903–1965), Anglican priest
• John Hawkins (archdeacon of Hampstead) (born 1963)
• John Isaac Hawkins (1772–1855), engineer and inventor of the upright piano, a mechanical pencil and a letter copying machine (the polygraph)
• John Russell Hawkins (1862–1939), American professor and college president
• John Hawkins (athlete) (born 1949), Canadian high jumper
• John Hawkins (rower), Australian rower
• John Hawkins (rugby union) (born 1996), English rugby union player
• John Hawkins (Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge), Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1728–1733
• TSS Sir John Hawkins (1929), passenger tender vessel

See also

• Jack Hawkins (disambiguation)
• John Hawkin, MP
• John Hawkins Hagarty (1816–1900), Canadian lawyer, teacher, and judge