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John Butt

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1699472 ↗
Source-derived summary

John Butt may refer to:

John Butt (bishop) (1826–1899), English Roman Catholic bishop

John Butt (sport shooter) (1850–1939), English sport shooter

John Everett Butt (1906–1965), English literary scholar

John Butt (politician) (born 1941), Canadian politician

John Mohammed Butt (born 1950), Trinidad-born British Islamic scholar and broadcaster

John Butt (musician) (born 1960), English conductor, organist, harpsichordist and scholar

See also

John But (fl.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1826, 1899, 1850, 1939—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where John, Butt and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “John Butt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.