John Anderson

John Anderson may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Business

• John Anderson (Scottish businessman) (1747–1820), merchant and founder of Fermoy, Ireland
• John Byers Anderson (1817–1897), American educator, military officer and railroad executive, mentor of Andrew Carnegie
• John Macvicar Anderson (1835–1915), Scottish architect
• John Anderson (publisher) (1836–1910), Norwegian-American publisher
• John Anderson (merchant) (1852–1924), Scottish merchant, of Singapore and Eastcote
• John L. Anderson (shipbuilder) (1868–1941) Seattle steamboat pioneer
• Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet, of Harrold Priory (1878–1963), Scottish haulage contractor
• John E. Anderson (1917–2011), American businessman, namesake of the UCLA Anderson School of Management
• John Anderson (New Zealand businessman, born 1938) (1938–2025), founder of Contiki Holidays and professional public speaker
• Jock R. Anderson (born 1941), Australian agricultural economist
• John Anderson (inventor) (1942–2012), founder, director and chief technology officer of HeartSine Technologies
• John Anderson (New Zealand businessman, born 1945) (1945–2018), chief executive of the ANZ National Bank

Military

• John Wayne Anderson (1805–1866), captain in the Confederate States Army, father of John Wayne Anderson Jr.
• John Wayne Anderson Jr. (1843–1901), captain in the Confederate States Army, son of John Wayne Anderson
• John Byers Anderson (1817–1897), educator, railroad contractor and United States Army officer
• John F. Anderson (general) (1832–1902), American Civil War officer
• John B. Anderson (United States Army officer) (1891–1976), American general
• John W. Anderson (sailor) (1899–1976), Master Mariner and Commodore, United States Lines; Captain, SS United States
• Sir John Anderson (British Army officer, born 1908) (1908–1988), first commander of the Ulster Defence Regiment
• Sir John Anderson (British Army officer, born 1916) (1916–2007), British Army officer
• John Anderson (VC) (1918–1943), English Victoria Cross recipient
• John Rogers Anderson (born 1941), Canadian admiral and ambassador to NATO

Politics

Religion and philosophy

• John Anderson (theologian and controversialist) (1668–1721), Scottish theologian
• John Anderson (theologian) (1748–1830), founder of the first Presbyterian seminary in America
• John Anderson (missionary) (1805–1855), Scottish missionary
• John Hendry Anderson (1854–1913), Anglican rector and instigator of Tooting Bec Lido
• John Anderson (archbishop of Moosonee) (1866–1943), Anglican Church of Canada metropolitan bishop
• John Anderson (philosopher) (1893–1962), Scottish–Australian philosopher
• John Mueller Anderson (1914–1999), American philosopher
• John Anderson (bishop of British Columbia) (1912–1969), Anglican Church of Canada bishop
• John R. Anderson (minister) (1818–1863), American founder and minister of African Baptist Churches

Science

• John Anderson (natural philosopher) (1726–1796), Scottish natural philosopher
• John Anderson (physician) (died 1804), English physician
• John Anderson (zoologist) (1833–1900), Scottish zoologist
• John Anderson (New Zealand engineer) (1849–1934), Scottish rugby union player and New Zealand engineer
• John Anderson (Scottish engineer) (1814–1886)
• John F. Anderson (scientist) (1873–1958), director of the United States Hygienic Laboratory
• John August Anderson (1876–1959), American physicist and astronomer
• John Edward Anderson (psychologist) (1893–1966), American psychologist
• John Stuart Anderson (1908–1990), British/Australian inorganic chemist
• John Anderson (pathologist) (1918–2011), British pathologist
• J. Edward Anderson (1927–2026), American engineer
• John Maxwell Anderson (1928–1982), Scottish surgeon and cancer specialist
• John Robert Anderson (chemist) (1928–2007), Australian chemist/materials scientist
• John D. Anderson (born 1937), American aerospace engineer
• John L. Anderson (born 1945), American chemical engineer
• John Robert Anderson (psychologist) (born 1947), Canadian-American psychologist and computer scientist
• John G. Anderson (born 1948), American seismologist

Sports

Others

• John Anderson (carpenter) (1759–1832), Scottish friend of Robert Burns
• John Anderson (engraver) (1775 – before 1809), Scottish engraver
• John Anderson (genealogist, 1789–1832), Scottish genealogist
• John Anderson (genealogist, 1798–1839), Scottish genealogist
• John C. Anderson (judge) (1863–1940), associate justice and chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
• John W. Anderson (Iowa judge) (1871–1954), justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
• John Anderson (classicist) (1870–1952), Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford
• John Kinloch Anderson (1924–2015), Scottish academic
• John Mathieson Anderson (born 1941), British linguist and Emeritus Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh
• John Anderson (escaped slave), American slave who escaped to Canada in the 1860s, leading to a famous extradition case
• John W. Anderson (slave trader) (1801?–1836), Kentucky farmer and interstate trafficker
• John Anderson (tailor), Scottish tailor working in Edinburgh in the 1540s and 1550s

See also

• Jack Anderson (disambiguation)
• John Andersson, Swedish footballer
• John Anderton (disambiguation)
• Jon Anderson (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Anderson (disambiguation)

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