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Fred Johnson

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ5495585 ↗
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Fred Johnson may refer to:

Musicians

Fred Johnson, bass player in the doo-wop band The Marcels

Fred Johnson, former second guitarist in the prog-rock band Minibosses

Fred Johnson, former member of the British band Radical Dance Faction

Fred Johnson, former member of the ska band Suburban Legends

Sportspeople

Fred Johnson (American football coach), American collegiate football head coach in 1911 and 1917

Fred Johnson (Australian footballer) (1896–1956), Australian rules footballer

Fred Johnson (baseball) (1894–1973), Major League Baseball pitcher

Fred Johnson (offensive lineman) (born 1997), American football offensive lineman

Fred Johnson (linebacker), American football linebacker

Fred Johnson (racing driver) (1929–1991), American NASCAR driver

Fred Johnson (long jumper), track and field athlete, 1948 US National and 1949 NCAA champion long jump

Others

Fred Gustus Johnson (1876–1951), U.S. congressman and lieutenant governor of Nebraska

Fred G. Johnson (1892–1990), American circus banner painter

J. Fred Johnson Jr. (1925–2012), American businessman and politician in Tennessee

Fred W. Johnson, American government official, director of the Bureau of Land Management

Fred Johnson (actor) (1899–1971), Irish actor featuring in Martin Luther and The Saint's Return

Fred Johnson (TV writer), writer and producer for TV series such as My Brother and Me, The Bernie Mac Show, Moesha, Living Single, and 227

Characters

Mr.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Fred Johnson” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fred, Johnson and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1911, 1917, 1896, 1956—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Fred, Johnson and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Fred Johnson” 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.