Sir John Robert Kerr AK, GCMG, GCVO (24 September 1914 - 24 March 1991) was the 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and 18th Governor-General of Australia. He dismissed the Labor government of Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975, marking the climax of one of the most significant constitutional crises in Australian history.

Rev. John Kerr (December 17, 1824 - August 15,1907) was a Scottish physicist who inaugurated the field of electro-optics.

John Kerr (c. 1778 - 1823) was an Irish-born mayor of Columbus, Ohio in the United States. He was the second person to serve as mayor of that city, and held office from 1818 to 1820.

For other people called John Kerr see John Kerr (disambiguation)

John Kerr (Born 19 February 1942) is an Australian radio announcer.

John Kerr hosts the weekend edition of the New Day Australia from Midnight to 6am on 2UE and many other Fairfax Media owned radio stations.

Between 1994 to 2005 John hosted the weekday version of New Day Australia. In 2006, his on air shift was changed to the weekend edition of the show. Radio announcer Stuart Bocking replaced John in the weekday shifts of New Day Australia.

John Kerr, Jr., is a former American soccer midfielder who played professionally in the U.S., Canada, England and Ireland. He was named the 1991 Hermann Award winner as the top collegiate player of the year. He also earned sixteen caps, scoring two goals, with the U.S. national team.

John Kerr (1782 - 1842), father of John Kerr, Jr., cousin of Bartlett Yancey, and grand-uncle of John H. Kerr, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Virginia from 1813 to March 1815 and again from October 1815 to 1817.

John Kerr (born November 15, 1931 in New York City, New York) is an American actor and lawyer. Kerr's parents, Geoffrey Kerr and June Walker, were both stage and film actors, and he developed an early interest in following their footsteps. He made his Broadway debut in 1953 in Mary Coyle Chase's Bernardine, a high-school comedy. In 1955, he received considerable critical acclaim as a troubled college student in Robert Anderson's play Tea and Sympathy. He won a Tony Award for his performance, and he starred in the film version the following year.

Kerr co-starred with Leslie Caron in Gaby (1956), and had a major role in the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (1958). His only other notable film appearance was in Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), co-starring with Vincent Price and Barbara Steele.

In the late 1960's, Kerr pursued a full-time career as a Beverly Hills lawyer, but still accepted occasional small roles in a large variety of television productions throughout the years. His last appearance as an actor was in 1986, in a minor role in The Park Is Mine, a made-for-TV movie starring Tommy Lee Jones.

John Kerr (born June 2, 1980 in Uphall) is a Scottish ice dancer who represents Great Britain. He previously skated with Anna Syrett. He teamed up with his sister Sinead Kerr in 2000. They are the four time British national champions and placed 10th at the Torino Olympics. The Kerrs are currently coached by Evgeni Platov.

Admiral Sir John Kerr GCB, DL, (born 27 Oct. 1937) is a retired admiral in the Royal Navy. During his naval career he commanded a frigate, a guided missile destroyer and an aircraft carrier — HMS Illustrious. He was in charge of various task groups and was Chief of Defence Intelligence. Kerr's naval career culminated in his appointment as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command and member of the Board of Admiralty. Kerr retired from the Navy in 1994 and became involved in the governance of Higher Education. He served on the Council and Court of Lancaster University, the Victoria University of Manchester between 1994 and 2004,and was a member of the Court of UMIST from 2000 until 2004. He was part of the small group that oversaw the merger of UMIST and the Victoria University, including chairing the committee that drafted the charter of the new University of Manchester and became the Pro-Chancellor from its inauguration in 2004.

In 1998 Kerr became Vice-Chairman of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and he is also a Commissioner of the Museums and Galleries. He also served as member of the national Independent Review of Higher Education Pay and Conditions in 1999.

John Kerr (born 1981-09-19) is a linebacker from Ohio State. He went undrafted in the 2007 NFL Draft and subsequently signed with the Minnesota Vikings. He was released by the Vikings on August 27, 2007 .

He played high school football for St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio .

John Kerr (born July 15, 1934) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the VFL during the 1950's.

Kerr played as a rover spent 6 seasons with the Bulldogs. He was one of the best afield in their 1954 Grand Final victory, his 32 possessions was the most by a Footscray player.

John Kerr (c.1925 - 25 April 2006) was an Irish ballad singer from Coolback, Fanad, County Donegal, Ireland.

His best known recording is Three Leafed Shamrock which reached number 1 in the singles charts of the Republic of Ireland on 1 April 1972.

A right handed batsman, Kerr represented Scotland for 26 years and is their longest serving player of all time. His unbeaten 178 against Ireland in Dublin remained a national record for 3 decades until it was passed by James Aitchison. Aitchison was also the man to pass his record tally of 1975 runs for Scotland. Kerr played club cricket for Greenock and scored 21558 runs for them and made 49 hundreds.

His father Geoffrey Kerr (I) (b. 25 Jan 1895, London; d. 1971) and mother June Walker (b. 14 June 1904, New York City; d. 1966) were successful Broadway--and occasionally, film actors). He went into theatre as soon as graduated Harvard. He had an important role in "Bernadine" (1952), and achieved real recognition for the sensitive lead part of Tom Robinson (I) Lee in the stage production of "Tea and Sympathy" (1953), a role he recreated in the 1956 film version. Audiences found him touching in the tragic/hero role of Lieutenant Joe Cable in the 1958 musical "South Pacific". He is a practicing attorney and makes but rare film/TV appearances.

The son of Broadway actors Geoffrey Kerr (III) and June Walker (I), John Kerr began his stage career after graduating from Harvard University. His first important part was in the play "Bernardine" in 1952, and the next year he achieved stardom as the shy, sensitive lead in "Tea and Sympathy", a role he repeated in the film version (Tea and Sympathy (1956)). Although he appeared in several films, he wasn't able to build a major career out of his auspicious debut. He has, however, kept extremely busy as a guest star in innumerable TV series.