John Howard (September 2, 1726 - January 20, 1790) was a philanthropist and the first English prison reformer.

John Howard (born 22 October 1952 in Corowa, New South Wales) is an Australian stage and screen actor. He is best known for his appearances in the film The Club, the Australian comedy film, The Crop and the television series SeaChange and Always Greener. He currently plays the regular role of Dr. Frank Campion in the Australian medical TV drama, All Saints. Overseas, he is best known as the villain Silverthorn from the The Girl From Tomorrow tv series, and as the villain Preston Preston in the film Young Einstein.

Early in his career, he decided (partly in response to a recognised tendency for successful Australian actors to end up in England or the US) that he would only appear in Australian productions.

After a different John Howard was elected Prime Minister of Australia in 1996, jokes about the coincidence entered Australian comedy - notably in an episode of the satirical television series The Games in which the organisers of the Sydney Olympics hired the actor (played by himself) to stand in for the Prime Minister, figuring that the foreign dignitaries wouldn't know the difference.

John Howard the actor, playing himself but identifying himself only as "John Howard", said "Sorry" to Indigenous Australians for their treatment at the hands of the English settlers and their descendants, through to the present day. This was a direct comment on the repeated refusal by Prime Minister John Howard to make such an apology on behalf of the Government of Australia.

Since this joke he has appeared at many rallies opposing Prime Minister John Howard's involvement in the Iraq War.

He also ended up on the Australian "news channel" CNNNN (a mock 24 hour news channel comedy series) as a guest to also discuss the Iraq war, being criticised by the presenter, who apparently can't tell that he's not John Howard the Prime Minister.

He is also the subject of the song John Howard The Actor (an opening in protest) by Ross McLennan, ex-frontman of the band Snout, featuring the lyrics: My sympathies go out/Go out to John Howard the actor/His nomenclature/Messed up under history's tractor.

John Howard (April 14 1913 - February 19 1995) was an American actor.

Born John R. Cox, Jr. in Cleveland, Ohio, he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of what is now Case Western Reserve University. At college he discovered a love for the theater, and took part in student productions. The goodlooking and personable young Howard soon became a contract player for Paramount, working in a dozen pictures before getting his first memorable role as Ronald Colman's younger brother in Lost Horizon. He soon took over for Colman in the popular Bulldog Drummond series of films, starring in seven of the features (1937-39), and maintaining the film version of the detective as far more sophisticated than the original print character. Howard's next noteworthy assignment was as Katharine Hepburn's fiancé in The Philadelphia Story (1940). He served in the Navy during World War II, eventually as Executive Officer aboard a minesweeper. When his vessel struck a mine off the French coast in August, 1944, killing the captain and severely damaging the ship, Howard took over command and fought valiantly to save his ship and crew, even jumping into the sea to save several wounded sailors. For his gallantry he was awarded both the US Navy Cross and the French Croix de Guerre.

Upon his return to Hollywood, Howard was given the lead in lesser projects, but limited to supporting roles in feature pictures. Even his solid performance as Laraine Day's husband in The High and the Mighty (1954) did not generate any opportunities to break the pattern.

Howard made his Broadway debut in Hazel Flagg in 1953.

He became one of the first screen actors to commit to working in the new field of television and continued to make occasional film appearances until the mid-1970s, but gradually moved into academia. He taught English at Highland Hall, a private high school, for nearly twenty years.

He died in 1995 of heart failure, aged 81, in Santa Rosa, California, survived by his wife and their four children. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Major John Howard, DSO (December 8, 1912- May 5, 1999) was a British Army officer who led the World War II assault on "Pegasus", a vital bridge over the Caen Canal, and the bridge over the adjacent River Orne (about 500 yards to the east).

John Howard (born August 16, 1947 in Springfield, Missouri) is an Olympic cyclist from the United States, who set a land speed record of 152.2 miles per hour (245 km/h) on pedal bicycle on July 20, 1985 on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats.

A competitor at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, Howard won the gold medal in the 1971 Pan American Games road cycling race in Cali, Colombia, as a member of the U.S. Army cycling team by beating Luis Carlos Florez in a sprint finish. He is a former 4-time U.S. National Road Cycling champion (1968, 1972, 1973 and 1975) and won the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii.

John Melbourne Howard (1913-10 August 1982) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Howard was educated at Whitgift School, South Croydon. He served in the Royal Navy, 1941-46, in minesweepers during World War II, holding the rank of sub-lieutenant. He worked as a chartered accountant.

In the 1945 general election, Howard stood as a Liberal in Croydon North, coming third. He joined the Conservative Party and became a councillor on the London County Council (LCC) in 1949. In 1951 he was Conservative candidate in Hammersmith North, without success. He became an alderman of the LCC in 1952 until 1954.

In 1955, Howard was elected Member of Parliament for Southampton Test, defeating Labour high-flyer Tony Crosland. He stood down in 1964.

John Winston Howard (born 26 July, 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March, 1996 to 3 December, 2007. He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies, and was leader of the Liberal Party of Australia for over 16 years.

Howard was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1974 to 2007, representing the Division of Bennelong, New South Wales. He served as Treasurer in the government of Malcolm Fraser from 1977–1983. He was Leader of the Liberal Party and Coalition Opposition from 1985–1989, which included the 1987 federal election against Bob Hawke. He was re-elected as Leader of the Opposition in 1995.

Howard led the Liberal-National Coalition to victory at the 1996 federal election, defeating Paul Keating's Labor government and ending a record 13 years of Coalition opposition. Howard was sworn in as Prime Minister on 11 March 1996. Howard's government was re-elected at the 1998, 2001 and 2004 elections but was defeated at the 2007 election by the Labor opposition led by Kevin Rudd. Howard was also defeated in his electorate of Bennelong by Labor's Maxine McKew, making him the second Australian Prime Minister, after Stanley Bruce in 1929, to lose his own seat.

John Howard is considered the central pioneer of adventure racing.

Very few individuals have dominated endurance sports in the way John dominated adventure racing. Since winning the first ever major adventure race held in the world, the Raid Gauloises in 1989, he went on to win every significant race in the sport, including Eco-Challenge (three times), the Raid Gauloises (three times), the Elf Authentique, the ESPN X-Games (twice) and the Southern Traverse. In addition, he has served as a course designer or advisor to numerous high-profile outdoor adventure events, including the Mild Seven Outdoor Quest, Action Asia and New Zealand's Coast to Coast.

A native New Zealander, Howard is perceived as somewhat of an enigma in the sport. At the Raids Gauloises in Borneo in 1994, he revolutionised the way teams approached adventure races such as the Eco-Challenge and Raid Gauloises by taking the bare minimum of equipment, including food and water, between checkpoints, and wearing shorts, a t-shirt and running shoes, and carrying a microscopic backpack. Previously competitors had competed in hiking and mountaineering gear and carried heavy bags throughout the event. This gave Howard and his team a huge advantage and they blitzed the course, winning an expected eight-day race in five. His advantage was only temporary; from 1995, everybody was racing in a similar, stripped-down fashion.

Ian Adamson, considered by many the Michael Jordan of the sport, describes Howard as, "... a unique individual. He cultivates a disheveled look to maintain his individuality and to match his already eccentric persona. On a personal level he is extremely caring and generous, and I would (and have) placed my life in his hands. John looks like a mountain man because he is. He has an immensely deep background in all back country skills since this is the life he has led since he was a teenager. He has also been winning adventure races longer than most athletes have been around. Finally, he races exclusively with people he likes, respects and who he knows he can win with."

On August 20, 2005, Primal Quest announced that John Howard was joining the world's premier adventure race as Technical Director.

John Howard is an artist and illustrator based in the San Francisco Bay Area and is noted for hand-drawn limited-edition screen printed concert posters.

Starting in 1994 John designed posters for local venues like The Fillmore and the Great American Music Hall. Many of these posters can be found in the The Art Of Modern Rock (Chronicle Books)

A member of the American Poster Institute, John is a regular exhibitor at their Flatstock events, and at the semi annual poster shows sponsored by The Rock Poster Society (TRPS).

Sometime around 1978, one of the pioneers of street painting in Sao Paulo was John Howard, an American artist who had moved from San Francisco to Brazil. In due course, he became a prolific painter on the streets...[painting] over six hundred telephone poles throughout Sao Paulo with his colourful images. Some years later, he was offered a job teaching graffiti to kids. In an interview for a San Francisco newspaper Howard said: in Sao Paulo you always had the feeling that there was no center, no history...a city landscape with few trees, no parks, miles of fortress-like walls. There were millions of kids with no access to libraries or museums, nothing. But street art introduced the possibility. The kids realized, "Hey, I can do something." The city became theirs. John Howard is thought to have shifted between Sao Paulo and San Francisco throughout the 1980s and to have moved back to San Francisco sometime in the late 1990s.

John Armstrong Howard (born October 6, 1888, date of death unknown) was a Canadian track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

In 1912 he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 100 metres competition as well as of the 200 metres event.

He was also a member of the Canadian relay teams which was eliminated in the semi-final of the 4x100 metre relay competition and in the first round of the 4x400 metre relay event.

A native Ohioan, John Howard (born John R. Cox, Jr.) had no interest in working in theater until schoolmates at Cleveland's Western Reserve University turned him on to acting. After some work on his college stage, he made his movie debut in a bit part in Paramount's One Hour Late (1934) before moving up the Hollywood ladder to featured parts and ultimately landing his own series, the Bulldog Drummond mysteries. Decades later, when offers of work began to slow down, Howard went into teaching. Best-known for his role as Ronald Colman's brother in director Frank Capra's classic Lost Horizon (1937), Howard later said he felt he did a bad job of playing the character: "Damn it, I thought I was too brash, too uncontrolled, too unbelievable. And I've wished always that I could go back and do it again."

American actor, usually a leading man in smaller-budgeted films and a second lead in larger pictures. He attended what is now Case Western Reserve University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, and where he discovered a love for the theatre. He made his film debut in 1934 under his real name, John Cox, then made rapid headway as a debonair fellow in a number of programmers. His greatest fame came as the brother of Ronald Colman's character in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon (1937) and as suave detective Bulldog Drummond in a series of films starting that same year. During World War II, Howard served as Executive Officer of the USS YMS-24, a minesweeper. During the invasion of southern France, the ship was severely damaged by a mine which also killed her captain. Howard took over command and fought valiantly to save his ship and crew, even jumping into the sea to save a wounded sailor. For his gallantry he was awarded the Navy Cross (the second highest military award of the U.S. Navy) and the French Croix de Guerre. His return to Hollywood after the war was welcomed, unfortunately, with diminishing opportunities. The quality of his films fell and he was one of the first screen actors to commit to working in the new field of television. He continued to make occasional film appearances after the Sixties, but gradually moved into academia. He became headmaster of the prestigious Highland Hall, a private high school where he taught and administered for nearly twenty years. He also gave private lessons in celestial navigation. He died in 1995, survived by his actress-ballerina wife Eva Ralf and their four children.

Has a sister, Jan. Grew up in Warrawee, NSW Australia and went to Knox Grammar School. Dropped out of medicine and law at university. Graduated in 1978 from NIDA with Penny Cook (II), Robert Grubb. Played leading roles from 1981 to 1994 in various plays. Won a Critics Circle award in 1992 for "The Crucible" and "Mongrels". Nominated for an AFI award for "Joh's Jury". Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company from 1992 to 1995. Launched the Australian People's Theatre (associated with the Sydney Theatre Company). Has a daughter born in 1996 and a son from a previous marriage. He is most famous for "SeaChange" (1998).