John Hughes, Jr. (born February 18 1950) is an American film director, producer and writer, responsible for some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s, including National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Uncle Buck and Home Alone.
He has not worked on a film since Maid in Manhattan, though he will return with Drillbit Taylor in 2008.
Archbishop John Joseph Hughes (June 24, 1797 - January 3, 1864) was the fourth bishop and first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York. He was born in County Tyrone, Ireland and followed his parents to the United States. Initially employed as a gardener at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland, he was admitted as a student, and was ordained a priest on October 15, 1826 and ordained a bishop on January 7, 1838 with the titular see of Basileopolis. He succeeded to the bishopric of the diocese of New York on December 20, 1842 and became an archbishop on July 19, 1850, when the diocese was elevated to the status of archdiocese. He campaigned actively on behalf of Irish immigrants, and attempted to secure state support for religious schools. He protested against the United States Government for using the King James Bible in public schools, claiming that it was an attack on Catholic constitutional rights of double taxation, because Catholics would need to pay taxes for public school and also pay for the private school to send their kids to in order to avoid the Protestant translation of the bible. When he failed to secure state support, he founded an independent Catholic school system which was taken into the Catholic Church's core at the third plenary Council of 1884 which mandated that all Parishes have a parochial school and that all Catholic children be sent to those schools.
He founded St. John's College (now Fordham University) and began construction of St. Patrick's Cathedral. He served until his death. He was originally buried in old St. Patrick's Cathedral and was exhumed and reinterred in the crypt under the altar of the new cathedral.
John Hughes (born 29 May 1925) was Labour Member of Parliament for Coventry North East in the United Kingdom from 1987 to 1992.
He was previously a Coventry City councillor and chair of the Coventry District Labour Party.
He was MP for Coventry NE at a time when his Constituency Labour Party was the scene of particularly fraught left-right battles, even by the standards of the Labour Party in the 1980s. In the run-up to the 1987 general election the sitting MP, George Park, announced his intention to retire. In the internal Labour Party selection the right wing voted for Hughes as he seemed the weakest of the left-wing candidates, mainly because he was aged around 60 and so seemed unlikely to serve more than one term as an MP.
In his time as an MP he hit the headlines when the Speaker ordered him out of the chamber, when during prayers he asked the clergyman not to bless the house, in protest at the social impact of the government's policies.
In the run up to the 1992 general election he was de-selected by his Constituency Labour Party in favour of Bob Ainsworth. He fought the election as an independent, but did not do particularly well for a sitting MP who had fallen out with his party, winning just over 4,000 votes.
John Hughes (born September 9, 1964 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a former Scottish professional footballer and is currently manager of Falkirk.
Hughes is the son of a former Leith Dockworker. During his playing career he played for several clubs including Berwick Rangers and Swansea City,making his name at Falkirk before joining Celtic. Other clubs include Hibernian and Ayr United.
He landed his first managerial job on January 31 2003 when he was appointed co-manager of Falkirk along with then team-mate Owen Coyle. He guided them to promotion to the Scottish Premier League in 2005.
He shares his name with former Celtic, Crystal Palace and Sunderland player John 'Yogi' Hughes, and as a result is often referred to as 'Yogi' himself.
He famously performed a streak during his first stint at Falkirk whilst team-mate Mo Johnston was being interviewed for BBC Scotland's Sportscene.
John Hughes (born 1961) is a Sydney-based Australian writer and teacher. His first book of autobiographical essays, The Idea Of Home, published by Giramondo in 2004, was widely acclaimed and won both the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for Non-Fiction (2005) and the National Biography Award (2006).
John James Hughes (1814, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales — 1889, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Welsh businessman and founder of a city in what is now Ukraine. The city was originally named Yuzovka (Юзовка) after Hughes, ("Yuz" being a Russian or Ukrainian approximation of Hughes) but was renamed Donetsk in 1961.
His father was an engineer, head of one of the metal works in Merthyr. He started his career under his father's supervision. When he was 28, he acquired a shipyard, and by the age of 36 he owned a foundry in Newport. By the end of the 1850s he began work as an engineer at a metal-rolling factory in Millwall and eventually became executive director. In 1864 he designed a gun carriage for heavy cannons, which came to be used by the British Navy, as well as the navies of some other European countries.
When Hughes was 55, he moved to Russia, and in 1869 acquired a piece of land to the north of the Azov Sea from Russian statesman Viktor Kochubey. Immediately he started to build metal works close to the river Kalmius, at a site near the village of Alexandrovka. He also founded a "Novorussian society for coal, iron and rails production". The first pig-iron was cast there in 1872. The state-of-the-art works had 8 furnaces and was capable of a full production cycle. The land around the metal works quickly grew to become an industrial and cultural centre in the region. The population of the city founded by Hughes now exceeds 1 million.
Hughes was an engineer from Merthyr Tydfil who took up a concession from the Russian Imperial government in 1868. He built a metallurgical plant and rail producing factory. He formed the New Russia Company Limited to raise capital, and in the summer of 1870 he sailed to Russia with not only all the equipment necessary to establish the works, but also much of the skilled labour - a group of about a hundred ironworkers and miners mostly from south Wales. During the 1870s, blast furnaces were built, collieries and iron ore mines sunk, and brickworks and other facilities established to make the isolated works a self-sufficient industrial complex.
Over the next twenty years, the works prospered and expanded, first under John Hughes and then, after his death in 1889, under the management of his four sons. By the end of the nineteenth century, the works was the largest in the Russian Empire. A period of relative decline in the early years of the twentieth century was followed by expansion during the First World War, but the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 brought the Hughes family connection with the works to a close. The Hughes brothers and almost all of their foreign employees left Russia, and the works were taken over by the Bolsheviks in 1919. The town of Hughesovka was renamed first Stalino, in 1924, and then Donetsk in 1961. The works survived and prospered, and Donetsk is still a major centre of metallurgical industries.
Many of the men who accompanied John Hughes settled in Hughesovka, bringing out their wives and families. Over the years, although a Russian workforce was trained by the company, skilled workers from the United Kingdom continued to be employed, and many technical, engineering and managerial positions were filled by British (and especially Welsh) emigrants. A thriving expatriate community was established, living in good quality company housing, and provided with an English school and an Anglican church. Life could be hard, with very cold winters, hot summers, and occasional cholera epidemics, but some families remained in Hughesovka for many years. After the Bolshevik revolution, however, almost all returned to Britain, although a few stayed on, and their descendents still live in Donetsk.
He is the great great grandfather of current Blackburn Rovers manager Mark Hughes.
John Joseph Hughes is a well-known and established motor dealer in Australia. Born and raised in Fremantle, Western Australia, he has achieved the award for highest volume selling Hyundai Dealer for the World for 8 years running between 1997-2003. He played an integral part in establishing the brand Hyundai in Australia. Hughes, along with Alan Bond, through Bond Motor Corp. are responsible for bringing the Korean car manufacturer to Australia. Hughes held a position on the board of the Nine Network, and was a founding member on the board of the Fremantle Football Club.
Hughes recently received an acknowledgment by being honoured as an ambassador of Perth, Western Australia.
Dr Edgar John Hughes (born 27 July 1947) is a British Diplomat who is currently British Ambassador to Argentina. Born in South Wales Hughes went to the London School of Economics. He went on to receive his masters degree from Pennsylvania and his PhD from Cambridge.
Hughes was accepted to the foreign office after testing. His first foreign post was to Santiago, Chile. Before leaving Britain he married Lynne Evans. Their first son, named Owain David Hughes, was born in Chile. Hughes was later moved to America, where the couple had their second son Alexander Rhodri Hughes was born. Shortly after Alexander's birth they returned to London for five years.
John Hughes (b. June 23, 1950) is an Irish musician and manager best known for his management of The Corrs.
R. John M. Hughes is a computer scientist who does research in the field of programming languages and the author of several influential research papers on the subject. He is a professor in the department of Computing Science at the Chalmers University of Technology. Hughes is a member of the Functional Programming group at Chalmers, and much of his research relates to the Haskell programming language.
John Hughes (born March 18, 1954 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) is a retired a Canadian ice hockey defenceman.
Hughes started his National Hockey League career with the Vancouver Canucks in 1979. He would also play with the Edmonton Oilers, and New York Rangers. Previously, he had played in the World Hockey Association with the Phoenix Roadrunners, Cincinnati Stingers, Houston Aeros, and Indianapolis Racers. He would retire from hockey after the 1982 season. Father of two professional American figure skaters, Sarah Hughes and Emily Hughes.
John Hughes (1677-1720) was an English poet also noted for his editing of and commentary on the works of Edmund Spenser. Writing at the very end of 17th Century and at the beginning of the 18th, he also translated French drama and poetry, including Molière. Samuel Johnson included him in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets in 1781 but Swift and Pope thought both his verse and prose mediocre.
