John Taylor, Johnny Taylor or similar is the name of:

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• Academics
• Arts and entertainment
• TV and film
• Art
• Writing
• Music
• Comedy
• Fictional characters
• Business and trade
• Crime
• Military
• Politics and the law
• Australia
• Canada
• New Zealand
• Nigeria
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Religion
• Sports
• Australia 2
• United States 2
• United Kingdom 2
• Other countries
• Other
• See also

Academics

• John Taylor (Oxford), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, 1486–1487
• John Taylor (classical scholar) (1704–1766), English classical scholar
• John Taylor (English publisher) (1781–1864), British publisher and Egypt scholar
• John B. Taylor (born 1946), American economist, known as the creator of the Taylor rule
• John Taylor, former Director General of the United Kingdom's Office of Science and Technology, architect of the UK e-Science programme
• John Taylor, president of Pittsburgh Academy in 1801: see History of the University of Pittsburgh

Arts and entertainment

Business and trade

• John Taylor (bookseller) (fl. 1710s), English bookseller and publisher in St. Paul's Churchyard, London
• John Taylor (manufacturer) (1704–1775), English manufacturer and banker of Birmingham
• John Taylor of Ashbourne (1711-1788), English lawyer and cleric
• John Taylor (mining engineer) (1779–1863), English mining engineer and engineer of the Tavistock Canal
• John Taylor (paper manufacturer) (1809–1871), Canadian pioneer in the pulp and paper industry
• John Taylor (settler) (1821–1890), settler to York, Western Australia
• John Taylor (architect) (1833–1912), British architect
• John Taylor (Taylor Ham) (1837–1909), American food inventor and entrepreneur
• John Taylor (trader) (died 1898), Creole trader killed during Sierra Leone's Hut Tax War
• John Taylor (Velocette) (fl. 1900s), founder of Veloce Ltd. motorcycle firm
• John Taylor (inventor) (born 1936), horologist and inventor of controls for electric kettles
• Johnny C. Taylor Jr., American lawyer, author and public speaker
• John Donnithorne Taylor (1798–1885), English landowner
• John R. Taylor III (born 1957), American computer game designer
• John William Taylor (1827–1906), English philanthropist and bellfounder
• Sir John Taylor, 1st Baronet (1745–1786), dilettante

Crime

• John Taylor (pirate) (fl. 1718–1723), pirate active in the East Indies and Indian Ocean
• John Albert Taylor (1959–1996), American rapist and murderer, executed by firing squad
• John B. Taylor, American multiple murderer, convicted for the Wendy's massacre
• John Taylor (criminal) (born 1956), British convicted murderer and rapist

Military

• John Taylor (Medal of Honor), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• John Taylor (Royal Navy) (1775–1848), Scottish sailor who served with Nelson then emigrated to Canada
• John Taylor (VC) (1822–1857), English sailor
• John R. M. Taylor (1865–1949), U.S. infantry captain who compiled what became known as the Philippine Insurgent Records
• John Taylor (archivist) (1921–2008), American military archivist at the National Archives
• John Thomas Taylor (1886–1965), American soldier, lawyer, and chief lobbyist for the American Legion from 1919 to 1950
• John Lowther du Plat Taylor (1829–1904), British founder of the Army Post Office Corps and the Post Office Rifles
• John Debenham Taylor (1920–2016), British intelligence officer
• John Taylor, alias of British woman Mary Anne Talbot (1778–1808), who was a sailor and soldier during the French Revolutionary Wars

Politics and the law

Religion

• John Taylor (Master of the Rolls) (c. 1480–1534), British religious leader and jurist
• John Taylor (bishop of Lincoln) (c. 1503–1554), British religious leader, Bishop of Lincoln
• John Taylor (dissenting preacher) (1694–1761), English Presbyterian theologian
• John Taylor (archdeacon of Leicester) (1711–1772), English priest
• John Taylor (Baptist preacher) (1752–1833), Baptist preacher in Kentucky
• John Taylor (doctor) (died 1821), missionary in India
• John Taylor (Mormon) (1808–1887), third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1880–1887
• John W. Taylor (Mormon) (1858–1916), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• John H. Taylor (Mormon) (1875–1946), leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• John Taylor (bishop of Sodor and Man) (1883–1961), Church of England bishop, and father of the below Bishop of Winchester
• John Taylor (bishop of Sheffield) (1912–1971), Bishop of Sheffield in the Church of England
• John Taylor (bishop of Winchester) (1914–2001), Anglican missionary scholar, and son of the above Bishop of Sodor and Man
• John Edward Taylor (bishop) (1914–1976), Roman Catholic bishop of Stockholm, 1962–76
• John Taylor (bishop of St Albans) (1929–2016), British priest, Bishop of St Albans, 1980–1995
• John Taylor (bishop of Glasgow and Galloway) (1932–2021), British priest, Scottish Episcopal Church, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, 1991–1998
• John H. Taylor (bishop) (born 1954), Episcopal bishop and chief of staff to former U.S. President Richard Nixon

Sports

Other

• John Taylor (born 1980), fitness coach on the reality television series Too Fat for 15: Fighting Back
• John Taylor (oculist) (1703–1772), surgeon and medical charlatan

See also

• John Tayler (1742–1829), American politician from New York
• John Tyler (1790–1862), tenth president of the United States
• A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), British historian
• Jon Taylor (disambiguation)
• Jack Taylor (disambiguation)
• Jock Taylor (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Taylor (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with John Taylor

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