St John (name)

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St John or St. John is a given name and surname. It can be pronounced /ˈsɪnɪn/ or /-ʒən/ sometimes in some places, particularly if it is the first part of a hyphenated family name or a given name. Use of the full stop separator (period) is uncommon in some countries, especially those that use Commonwealth English.

People with the given name[]

  • St John Ellis (1964–2005), British Rugby League player
  • St John Ervine, Irish writer
  • St John Groser, Anglican priest and Christian socialist
  • St John Hornby (1867–1946), British businessman
  • St John Horsfall, British motor racing driver
  • St John O'Neill (1741–1790), Irish MP for Randalstown
  • Saint-John Perse, pseudonym of Alexis Leger (1887–1975), French poet and diplomat
  • St John Philby (1885–1960), British civil servant and explorer in Arabia

Fictional characters with the given name[]

  • St. John Allerdyce, real name of Pyro, fictional supervillain
  • St John Colchester, in the Torchwood audio drama series
  • St. John Hawke, in the American TV series Airwolf
  • St. John Rivers, clergyman in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
  • St. John Talbot, in the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
  • St. John Powell, partner of fictional advertising firm "Putnam, Powell and Lowe" in TV series Mad Men
  • James St. John Smythe, alias used by fictional spy James Bond whilst posing as a horse buyer in A View to a Kill
  • Deacon St. John, protagonist in the video game Days Gone

People with the surname[]

Baronets of Lydiard Tregoze (1611)

Barons St John of Bletso (1559)

See also[]

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