John Spencer (born 18 September 1935, Radcliffe, Lancashire, England; died 11 July 2006, Bolton, Greater Manchester) was an English professional snooker player who dominated the game in the 1970s along with Ray Reardon.

Spencer was born in Radcliffe (now part of Greater Manchester, formerly districted in Lancashire). He started his snooker career at the age of 15. Snooker was in decline during Spencer's youth, and he did not turn professional until his early 30s, when interest in the game started to revive. He first won the World Championship in 1969 after being loaned £100 by his bank to raise the entry fee. He battled for supremacy throughout the 1970s with Ray Reardon and Alex Higgins as snooker emerged from a phase of obscurity to become one of Britain’s most popular sports. Spencer went on to win two further world titles, the last of which was the historic inaugural event at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in 1977. Spencer won many other titles including Pot Black three times and the Masters once. He never reached the top of the world rankings, always being eclipsed by his friend and rival, Reardon.

In January 1982, Spencer was Steve Davis's opponent when Davis made the first televised 147 at the Lada Classic tournament at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldham. Ironically, Spencer had himself made a 147 at a televised event three years earlier, but the cameramen were on their tea break at the time and the table and ball set were not at the correct standard.

Spencer was the first player to use a two-piece cue which he used to win the 1977 title. His cue action included an unusually long backswing which gave him immense cue power, and allowed him to develop new shots using screw and side spin which aided the progression to modern break-building.

He was the owner of Spencer's snooker club in Bolton in the 1980s, when snooker was at its peak popularity. Spencer was also a commentator on snooker for BBC television for many years, and was chairman of the WPBSA for six years from 1990.

Spencer retired from snooker suffering from myasthenia gravis (with symptoms including double vision) in 1991. In 2003 he was diagnosed with stomach cancer but he later refused treatment for it in order to enjoy the rest of his life free from the effects of chemotherapy. Spencer had for many years been a dedicated charity fundraiser and, despite his illness, he took part in a sponsored parachute jump in 2005. His biography was published that same year, entitled Out Of The Blue And Into The Black.

Spencer's battle with cancer ended on 11 July 2006 when he died in a hospice in Bolton at the age of 70.

John Spencer (December 20 1946 – December 16 2005) was an Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American television actor best known for his role as Leo McGarry, the White House Chief of Staff on the NBC political drama The West Wing.

John Spencer (born November 17, 1946 ) is the former Mayor of Yonkers, New York (1996-2003). He was the 2006 Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from New York and lost to incumbent Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. Prior to entering politics as a member of the Yonkers City Council in 1991, he worked in retail, food service, construction, waste management, and banking.

John Spencer (b. September 11 1970, Glasgow, Scotland) is a former professional football (soccer) who last played in Major League Soccer for the Colorado Rapids. He is currently an assistant coach for the Houston Dynamo.

Spencer started his career at Rangers, signing with the club in 1985. His signature, even as a school boy who had yet to play a competitive senior match, proved controversial. Spencer joined Rangers at a time when the club was widely held hitherto to have had a policy of refusing to sign Roman Catholics, generating sustained media interest in his career. Spencer made his debut for Rangers in 1987, appearing 13 times and scoring twice. Although an energetic and committed performer, Spencer struggled to make headway at Rangers at a time when the club was dominating Scottish football. In 1988, he was loaned by manager Graeme Souness to Morton, where he made four appearances (scoring once) before returning to Ibrox. Spencer remained a fringe player at Ibrox and after a further loan spell with Double Flower FC blank">http://www.chelseafc.com/page/NewsHomePage/0,,10268~1018936,00.html of _Hong Kong was sold in 1992 to Chelsea for a fee of £450,000.

It was at Chelsea that Spencer enjoyed perhaps the most consistent period of success in an otherwise itinerant and injury-blighted career. Between 1992 and 1996, Spencer made 103 appearances and scored 36 goals. Spencer featured in the Chelsea team which lost 4-0 to Manchester United in the FA Cup final of 1994. Spencer's prominence at Chelsea saw him gain the first of 14 caps for the Scottish national team, appearing as a substitute in a 1-1 draw with Russia at Hampden Park in Scotland's successful campaign to qualify for the 1996 European Championships.

In November 1996, recently appointed Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit sold Spencer for £2.5 million to Queens Park Rangers, then in the second tier of English football, the First Division. Spencer appeared 56 times and scored a respectable 25 goals, but QPR failed to gain promotion to the English Premiership after Spender's initial season, and in his second flirted with relegation. In 1998, as his star at QPR waned, he moved to Everton, initially on loan, but subsequently for a fee of £1.5 million. Re-united with Walter Smith, his former manager at Rangers, Spencer's career at Everton quickly stalled, as his new club struggled to avoid relegation from the Premiership. After only eight months and nine games he was loaned to Motherwell.

In 1999, Spencer's move to Motherwell was made permanent, for a club-record fee of £500,000. Spencer's signing was seen as evidence of a raised level ambition at Fir Park. Scoring 21 times in 81 appearances spread over three seasons, Spencer's time at Motherwell was marked by initial optimism but eventual disappointment, as initial promise was tempered by a series of injuries. His final season, 2000/01, saw a return of only three goals. As Motherwell sought desperately to cut costs, Spencer was sold to Colorado Rapids on February 21 2001.

Spencer made an impressive MLS debut with the Rapids. In his first year, he started 22 games, and finished the year with 14 goals and 7 assists, and was subsequently named to the MLS Best XI. Spencer's second year was less impressive and once more hampered by injuries, but he still finished with 5 goals and 4 assists in only 13 games. He returned to form in 2003, however, leading the team in scoring again with 14 goals and 5 assists, winning a place in the MLS Best XI, as well as ranking as a finalist for the MLS MVP Award.

Spencer began to show his age in 2004, however, as injuries kept him out of several games, and he was not particularly impressive in the games he was available; he finished the season with four goals and one assist in 19 starts. He retired after the season.

John Spencer was one of the two front-runners for the available managers job at Chicago Fire, but eventually turned down the position.

John Spencer (13 May 1708 - 20 June 1746) was a British politician and an ancestor of the Earls Spencer.

Born Hon. John Spencer, he was the youngest son of the 3rd Earl of Sunderland and his wife, Anne. In 1732, he succeeded his cousin, William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford as Member of Parliament (MP) for Woodstock, a seat he held until 1746. He was involved in the foundation of the Foundling Hospital, famously championed by Thomas Coram, William Hogarth and others. Spencer is listed alongside these gentlemen as one of the organisation's founding governors.

In mid-January 1733, Spencer inherited his father's family's estates in Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire (including Althorp) and Warwickshire and his grandmother, the Duchess of Marlborough's property, including Wimbledon Park. He was married a month later on 14 February to Georgina Carolina Carteret (the third daughter and coheir of Viscount Carteret, later Earl Granville) and their only child was John, who was later created Earl Spencer in 1765. Spencer died in 1746 and his wife was remarried four years later to the 2nd Earl Cowper. The Althorp estate remains the seat of the earls, but the Wimbledon estate was later sold by the 4th Earl in 1846.

John Spencer (born October 6, 1949 in Brighton) is a former English first class cricketer. He played for Sussex and was named their Cricket Society's Player of the Year in 1975.

John Southern Spencer (Born 10 August 1947) is a former England international rugby union player. He was born in Grassington, Yorkshire, in 1947 and educated at Cressbrook, Sedbergh School, and Cambridge University. He has three children.

He played club rugby for Headingley as a centre and made his England debut at the age of 21 against Ireland at Lansdowne Road, Dublin, in February 1969. He went on to play 14 times for England, scoring 2 tries. His last game was against the Presidents XV in a Rugby Football Union centenary match at Twickenham in April 1971.

He was selected for the 1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand, playing 10 matches but did not appear in any of the internationals against the All Blacks. He also represented the Barbarians.

He is now head of Club England which is part of the RFU along with President of the Wharfedale Rugby Union Football Club (http://www.wharfedalerufc.co.uk/) in Grassington.

Dr. John H. Spencer (1907—August 25 2005) was a American historian. He attended Grinnell College in Iowa and Harvard College in Massachusetts. In 1935 in Paris he was offered a job to represent and advice the Ethiopian government in the international legal matters, and during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia and the Second Italo-Abyssinian War he served as a legal advisor to Emperor Haile Selassie and accompanied him to the League of Nations on June 30 1936 to ask for assistance. In October 1937, Dr. Spencer travelled to the United States and discussed the legal aspect of the Italy-Ethiopian conflict from 1934 to 1937, which appeared in the American Journal of International Law (Volume 31, 1937). In 1936 he left his position in the Ethiopian government and joined the United States Navy, then the the Department of State and the Department of Justice. After the defeat of the Italians in Africa, Spencer rejoined the Ethipoian government and was a principal administrator until 1943.

On December 19 1944 he successfully negotiated Ethiopia from Britain. Other negotiations and international conference in which Dr Spencer took an active role include: the Paris Peace Conference, where Ethiopia had some territorial claims about Ogden( the eastern part of Ethiopia which had a proximate with Somalia) and the present day of Eritrea ; the San Francisco Conference assembled to establish a United Nations, a prominent forum that deliberated for months and successfully created the new organization to succeed the old League of Nations; and later the negotiations that took place in Washington for the establishment of the Ethiopian Airlines.

Spencer continued to work as Ethiopias legal advisor until the late 1940s and published his work Ethiopia at Bay: A Personal Account of the Haile Selassie Years. He married in 1949 and had a daughter who survived him.

John was the only son of a lower middle-class family. His father, John Speshock, was a truck driver. His mother, Mildred, was a homemaker and an occasional waitress. He grew up near Paterson, New Jersey, but left at age 16 to attend the Professional Children's School. In 1963, he landed a recurring role on "Patty Duke Show, The" (1963). After that ended, he attended Fairleigh Dickenson University and later New York University, but dropped out to return to acting. John had been an acknowledged alcoholic, who remained sober ever since getting therapy. He had quit smoking in 1999, which he described as "hell on earth". He passed away of a heart attack on December 16, 2005. He will be missed.