John Moore Explained

John Moore may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Art

• John Francis Moore (sculptor) (died 1809), 18th-century British sculptor
• John Moore of Ipswich, (1821–1902), English painter and decorator
• John Collingham Moore (1829–1880), English artist
• John Lysaght Moore (1897–1965), New Zealand artist
• John Moore (painter) (born 1941), American artist
• John Moore (photographer) (born 1967), American photographer
• John Moore (South African artist) (born 1972), printmaker

Film and theater

• John Moore (stage manager) (1814–1893), British actor, prompter, and stage manager
• Jack D. Moore (1906–1998), American set decorator
• John Moore (designer) (1924–2006), American motion picture art director and production designer
• John Moore (broadcaster) (born 1966), Canadian broadcaster, actor, and voice actor
• John Moore (Australian actor) (born 1968), actor in Aboriginal roles
• John Moore (director) (born 1970), Irish film director, producer, and writer

Music

• John Moore (piper) (1834–1894), Irish piper
• Deacon John Moore (born 1941), American musician and bandleader
• John Moore (British musician) (born 1964), musician with The Jesus and Mary Chain, Black Box Recorder
• John Moore (songwriter) (born 1969), American songwriter and singer for 53 Days
• Johnny B. Moore (born 1950), American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter

Writing

• John Moore (Manx poet), privateer and poet from the late 18th Century
• John Moore (Scottish physician) (1729–1802), author of the 1789 novel Zeluco and father of General Sir John Moore
• John Weeks Moore (1807–1889), American editor of musical publications
• John Robert Moore (1890–1973), American literary critic and student of Daniel Defoe
• John Moore (British author) (1907–1967), British author and pioneer conservationist
• John Moore (American author) (born 1959), American author
• John Francis Moore (writer), American comic book writer
• John Trotwood Moore (1858–1929), American journalist, writer and local historian

Clergy

• John Moore (1595?–1657), English clergyman; authored anti-enclosure pamphlets
• John Moore (bishop of Ely) (1646–1714), British scholar
• John Moore (Baptist) (1662–1726), English Baptist minister from Northampton
• John Moore (archbishop of Canterbury) (1730–1805), Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Moore (biblical scholar) (1742–1821), English biblical scholar
• John Moore (bishop of St. Augustine) (1835–1901), Bishop of St. Augustine, Florida, 1877–1901
• John Moore (Methodist bishop) (1867–1948), Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
• John Moore (bishop of Bauchi) (1942–2010), Bishop of Bauchi, Nigeria
• John Jamison Moore (died 1893), American preacher and educator
• John Moore (archdeacon of Cloyne), Archdeacon of Cloyne, 1665–1687

Law and politics

Australia

• John Moore (Australian judge) (1915–1998), President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission
• John Moore (Australian politician) (born 1936), Australian defence minister under John Howard

Canada

• John Moore (Lower Canada politician) (died 1858), contractor and political figure in Lower Canada
• John Francis Moore (politician) (1816–1870), Canadian politician
• John Douglas Moore (1843–1917), Ontario farmer and political figure
• John Thomas Moore (1844–1917), member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905–1909
• John Clarke Moore (1872–1943), Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons

U.K.

• John Moore (MP for Dover) (fl. 1584–1586), MP for Dover
• John Moore (regicide) (1599–1650), regicide of King Charles I of England
• John Moore (Lord Mayor) (1620–1702), English politician, MP for the City of London, 1685–1687
• John Moore, 1st Baron Moore (died 1725), Irish politician
• John Moore (1756–1834) (1756–1834), MP who represented the constituency of Newry
• John Moore (Irish politician) (1767–1799), President of the Province of Connacht, Irish Republic
• John Voce Moore (1826–1904), Lord Mayor of London, 1898–1899
• John William Moor (1881–?), British socialist activist
• John Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh (1937–2019), British Cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher

U.S.

• John Moore (Louisiana politician) (1788–1867), U.S. Congressman from Louisiana
• John Moore (Illinois politician) (1793–1863), Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
• John C. Moore (Denver mayor) (1832–1915), American politician
• John W. Moore (Missouri politician) (1840–1917), mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
• John P. Moore (Maryland politician) (1856–1918), member of the Maryland Senate, mayor of Snow Hill, Maryland
• John Isaac Moore (1856–1937), acting governor of Arkansas, 1907
• John Bassett Moore (1860–1947), U.S. international jurist
• John Marks Moore (1853–1902), Secretary of State of Texas, 1887–1891
• John Matthew Moore (1862–1940), U.S. Congressman from Texas
• John William Moore (1877–1941), U.S. Congressman from Kentucky
• John Moore Allison (1905–1978), United States Ambassador to Japan, Czechoslovakia and Indonesia
• John D. J. Moore (1910–1988), United States Ambassador to Ireland, 1969–1975
• John J. Moore (1920–1976), New York state senator
• John H. Moore II (1927–2013), United States federal judge
• John E. Moore (politician) (born 1943), Lieutenant Governor of Kansas
• John Moore (Mississippi politician) (born 1954), member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
• John Moore (Nevada politician) (born 1964), former member of the Nevada Assembly

Military

• Sir John Moore, 1st Baronet (1718–1779), British admiral
• John Moore (British Army officer) (1761–1809), British general, a.k.a. Moore of Corunna
• John Henry Moore (Texas settler) (1800–1880), settler and officer in the Texas Revolution of 1835–1836
• John Creed Moore (1824–1910), U.S. Army officer, Confederate brigadier general
• John Moore (physician) (1826–1907), U.S. Army surgeon-general
• John Warren Moore (1827–1879), Confederate officer, sheriff and farmer from Mobile, Alabama
• John White Moore (1832–1913), U.S. Naval officer
• John Anderson Moore (1910–1944), U.S. Naval officer
• John Moore (Royal Navy officer) (1921–2010), British Royal Navy submariner and editor of Jane's Fighting Ships

Science

• John Howard Moore (1862–1916), American zoologist, philosopher, educator, and social reformer
• John Percy Moore (1869–1965), American zoologist
• John Alexander Moore (1915–2002), American biologist
• John Fitzallen Moore (1928–2018), American physicist, son of authors Virginia Moore and Louis Untermeyer
• John B. Moore (engineer) (1941–2013), Australian electrical engineer
• John P. Moore, American virologist
• John Wilson Moore (1920–2019), American biophysicist
• John Edmund Sharrock Moore, English biologist

Sports

Association football

• Jack Moore (sportsman) (1911–?), English footballer, referee and tennis player
• John Moore (footballer, born 1923) (1923–2012), English footballer
• John Moore (footballer, born February 1943) (1943–2009), Lincoln City F.C. winger/forward
• John Moore (footballer, born December 1943), Scottish football player and manager (Luton Town)
• John Moore (footballer, born 1945), footballer for Shrewsbury Town, Swansea City and Stoke City
• John Moore (footballer, born 1966), English-born Hong Kong international player

Other sports

• John Moore (cricketer, born 1891) (1891–1980), Hampshire cricketer
• John Moore (baseball), American baseball player of the 1920s
• John Moore (rugby league) (died 1942), rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 1940s for England and Bradford Northern
• John Doxie Moore (1911–1986), American basketball player and coach
• John Moore (skier) (born 1933), British Olympic skier
• John Moore (cricketer, born 1943) (1943–2004), former English cricketer
• John Moore (referee) (born 1949), Irish hurling referee
• John Moore (horseman) (born 1950), Australian racehorse trainer
• John Moore (rower) (born 1964), American Olympic rower
• John Moore (ice hockey) (born 1990), American ice hockey defenseman

Other people

• John Bradford Moore (1855–1926), pioneer in the Navajo rug trade
• John Chandler Moore (1803–1874), American silversmith
• John Coleman Moore (1923–2016), American mathematician
• John Franklin Moore (1822–1877), American farmer and developer in North Carolina
• John H. Moore (1939–2016), American anthropologist
• John Moore (economist) (born 1954), British economist
• John Moore (anarchist) (1957–2002), British anarchist and professor
• Sir John Moore (civil servant), British civil servant
• John Moore (patent), civil complainant about patent relating to his body's cell line
• John Godfrey Moore (1847–1899), American businessman, financier and Wall Street stock market promoter

Other uses

• USS John A. Moore (FFG-19), U.S. Navy frigate (1981–2000)

See also

• John More (disambiguation)
• Johnny Moore (disambiguation)
• John Francis Moore (disambiguation)
• John Henry Moore (disambiguation)
• John Moores (disambiguation)
• Jackie Moore (disambiguation)