John Harris (c. 1666 - September 7, 1719), was an English writer. He is best known as the editor of the Lexicon technicum, or Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences (1704), which ranks as the earliest of the long line of English encyclopaedias, and as the compiler of the Collection of Voyages and Travels which passes under his name.
John Harris (1820 - 1884) was a Cornish poet.
John Harris (born 1969) is a British journalist, writer, critic and champion of pop music and popular culture. Harris was raised in Cheshire by two university lecturers and became fixated by pop music at an early age. After three years at Queen's College, Oxford, he began his professional writing career with Melody Maker in 1991, but he didn't stay long and has since expressed his distaste for its more intellectual style.
Colonel John Harris (May 20, 1790 - May 12, 1864) was the sixth Commandant of the Marine Corps.
John Harris (30 June 1917, in Glasgow - 24 June 1988 in Sheffield) was a Scottish footballer nicknamed "Gentleman John".
John Harris (born in Camden, South Carolina in 1949) is the author of Numerican Nation: A Self Portrait, in which he chronicles the first thirty years of his life and his views on United States politics from the perspective of the descendants of slavery. He moved to Mount Vernon, New York in 1958. He graduated from Mount Vernon High school, then continuing on to the Central Connecticut State University where he earned a bachelors degree in Political Science.
John Harris (born September 13, 1954) is a former Major League Baseball player. His first MLB appearance was with the California Angels on September 26, 1979.
John Harris, Captain of the Forecastle, was an officer in the U.S. Navy who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service on the USS Metacomet in Mobile Bay during the American Civil War.
John Harris (September 26, 1760–November, 1824) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.