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John Price

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ684622 ↗
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John Price may refer to:

Sportsmen

Jack Price (Australian footballer) (1901–1941), Australian rules footballer for Hawthorn

Jack Price (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1920s for Great Britain, England, Broughton Rangers, and Wigan

John Price (Australian footballer) (born 1944), Australian rules footballer for Hawthorn

John Price (bowls) (born 1960), Welsh lawn and indoor bowler

John Price (cricketer, born 1908) (1908–1995), English cricketer

John Price (cricketer, born 1937), English cricketer, played in 15 Tests, 1964–1972

John Price (footballer, born 1854) (1854–1907), Welsh international footballer

John Price (footballer, born 1936), Welsh footballer with Liverpool, Aston Villa, Walsall and Shrewsbury Town

John Price (rugby union) (born 1938), English rugby union player

John Price (sailor) (1920–1991), American Olympic sailor

John B. Price (1883–1954), American football coach

Johnny Price (1943–1995), English footballer with Burnley, Stockport County and Blackburn Rovers

Johnny Price (Fulham footballer) (1903–1987), footballer who played as a half back

Jon Price (born 1973), American sports gambler

Politicians

John Price (MP for Liskeard), in 1402, MP for Liskeard

John Price (MP for Cardiganshire) (died 1584), Welsh politician

John Price (died 1555) (1502–1555), MP for Breconshire, Hereford, Ludlow and Ludgershall

John Price (died 1602), Welsh politician

John Price (MP for Flint Boroughs) (?1570–1656), MP for Flint Boroughs

John Price (MP for Cardiff), Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1654 and 1659

John Price (New South Wales politician) (born 1939), Australian politician, state parliamentary member for Waratah and Maitland, New South Wales

John Price (South Australian politician) (1882–1941), Australian politician and MHR for Boothby, South Australia

John Price (Canadian politician) (1883–1956), Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

John Giles Price (1808–1857), magistrate and penal administrator, commandant of second convict settlement at Norfolk Island, 1846–1853

John Price (diplomat) (born 1934), former United States Ambassador to Mauritius and the Seychelles

John Playfair Price (1905–1988), British diplomat

John Wiley Price (born 1950), politician in Dallas, Texas, US

Actors

John Price (1943–1987), English actor in Sam

John Price (Danish actor) (1913–1996), Danish actor

Jonathan Pryce (born John Price, 1947), Welsh actor

Scholars

John Price (Welsh scholar) (1502–1555), author of the first book to be printed in Welsh

John Price (classical scholar) (1602–1676), classical scholar, publisher and collector of books

Other people

John Price, the African American man of the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue

John Price (British Army officer) (died 1747), general

John Price (executioner) (c. 1677–1718), English executioner

John Price (librarian) (1735–1813), Welsh librarian and Anglican priest

John Arthur Price (1861–1942), British barrister

John Charles Price, British judge

John Charles Thomas Price (1955–2000), Australian murder victim stabbed to death by Katherine Knight in a particularly brutal crime

John D. Price (1892–1957), admiral in the United States Navy

John E. Price (1827–1906), minister of African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

John Elwood Price (1935–1995), African-American composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist and music teacher

John L. Price, Jr.

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