Overview
John Murray or John Murry may refer to:
Arts and media
Literature and music
- John Murray (1745-1793), founder of John Murray (publisher)
- John Murray (1778-1843), second head of the publishing house
- John Murray III (1808-1892), third head of the publishing house
- John Murray (Australian writer) (born 1963), Australian epidemiologist, and writer
- John Murray (novelist) (born 1950), British novelist
- John Middleton Murry (1889-1957), writer
- John Middleton Murry Jr. (1926-2002), English writer
- John Murry (musician) (born 1979), American musician
- John Murray Graham (1809-1881), Scottish historian, in early life John Murray
Screen, radio and performing arts
- John Murray (actor) (born 1958), American actor
- John Murray (Irish broadcaster) (born 1964), Irish broadcaster and journalist
- John Murray (playwright) (1906-1984), American playwright, co-author of Room Service
- John Murray (sports broadcaster) (born 1966), English sports commentator
- John T. Murray (1886-1957), Australian-born actor
- Johnny Murray (voice actor), voice actor known for Bosko, the first star of Warner Brothers cartoons
- John B. Murray (filmmaker), Australian filmmaker and author
Sportspeople
Association football
- John Murray (footballer, born 1865) (1865-1922), Scottish international footballer who played club football for Vale of Leven, Sunderland, and Blackburn Rovers
- John Murray (footballer, born 1874) (c. 1874-1933), Scottish international footballer who played club football for Renton and Dundee
- John Murray (footballer, born 1927) (born 1927), England footballer who played club football for Gillingham
- John Murray (English footballer) (born 1948), English professional footballer
- John Murray (Irish footballer) (fl. 1890s), Irish footballer
Other
- John Murray (athlete) (1881-?), Irish Olympic athlete
- Jack Murray (Australian footballer) (fl. 1935-1949), Australian rules footballer
- John Murray (boxer) (born 1984), lightweight English boxer
- John Murray (cricketer) (1935-2018), English cricketer
- John Murray (ice hockey, born 1924) (1924-2017), British ice hockey player
- John Murray (ice hockey, born 1987), American ice hockey player
- John Murray (sports broadcaster) (born 1966), English broadcaster for BBC Radio 5 Live
- Johnny Murray (1898-1954), Irish footballer during the 1920s
- Jon Murray (fl. 2000s), head coach of Texas Tech cross country teams
- John A. Murray (jockey) in Singapore Gold Cup
Law and politics
United Kingdom and Britain
- John Murray, 1st Earl of Tullibardine (died 1609), Scottish courtier and leader of the Clan Murray
- John Murray, 1st Earl of Annandale (died 1640), Scottish courtier
- John Murray (died before 1640), MP for Guildford
- John Murray, Lord Bowhill (died 1714), MP in the first Parliament of Great Britain 1707-1708
- John Murray (died 1753), British MP for the Linlithgow Burghs, 1725-1734, Selkirkshire, 1734-1753
- Lord John Murray (1711-1787), British General and MP for Perthshire, 1734-1761
- John Murray of Broughton (c. 1718-1777), Jacobite and secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- John Murray (1726-1800), British MP for the Linlithgow Burghs, 1754-1761
- John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl (1729-1774), MP for Perthshire 1761-1764, Lord of the Isle of Man from 1764-1765
- John Murray (colonial administrator) (c. 1739-1824), governor of the Cape Breton colony in today’s Nova Scotia
- John Murray (British diplomat) (c. 1712-1775), Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire 1765-1775
- Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet (c. 1768-1827), British MP for Wootton Bassett 1807-1811, Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1811-1818
- John Murray, 5th Duke of Atholl (1778-1846), British Army officer and landowner in Scotland
- John Murray, Lord Murray (1779-1859), British MP for the Leith Burghs, 1832-1839
- Sir Hubert Murray (John Hubert Plunkett Murray, 1861-1940), judge and Lieutenant-Governor of Papua
- John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl (1929-2012), British peer
Scotland and Ireland
- John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl (1631-1703), leading Scottish royalist
- John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (1660-1724), Scottish nobleman and politician
- John Murray (Monaghan MP) (1707-1743), MP for County Monaghan 1741-43
- John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730-1809), colonial governor of Virginia and later the Bahamas
- John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl (1755-1830), Scottish peer
- John Wilson Murray (1840-1906), Scottish-born police detective who worked in the USA and Canada during the late 19th/early 20th centuries
- John Murray (MP for Leeds West) (1879-1964), Scottish civil servant, university administrator and Liberal Party politician
- John L. Murray (born 1943), Irish judge
United and Confederate States
- John Murray (Massachusetts) (1715?-1794), Representative to the Great and General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
- John Murray (congressman) (1768-1834), United States Representative from Pennsylvania
- John L. Murray (representative) (1806-1842), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
- John Porry Murray (1830-1895), Confederate politician
- John E. Murray Jr. (1932-2015), professor of law and Chancellor of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- John S. Murray (1925-2007), American politician in the state of Washington
Australia
- John Murray (pastoralist) (1837-1917), member of the Queensland Parliament from 1888 to 1903
- John Murray (Victorian politician) (1851-1916), Premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912
- John Murray (Queensland politician) (1915-2009), member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1958 to 1961
- John Murray (New South Wales politician) (born 1939), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2003
Africa
- John Murray (judge) (1888-1976), Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia from 1955 to 1961
Military
- John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore (1685-1752), Scottish peer and British Army general
- Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet (c. 1768-1827), general, led a brigade under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War
- John B. Murray (general) (1822-1884), American general
- John Ivor Murray (1824-1903), Scottish surgeon who practised in China, Hong Kong and then in Sebastopol in the Crimean War
- Sir John Irvine Murray (1826-1902), Scottish general who raised the 14th Murray’s Jat Lancers
- John Murray (native police officer) (1827-1876), Native Police officer in Queensland, Australia
- John Murray (VC) (1837-1911), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- John Murray (general) (1892-1951), general in the Australian Army
- John M. Murray, United States Army general
Religion and theology
- John Murray (minister) (1741-1815), minister and inspirational figure sometimes called the “founder of American Universalism”
- John Gardner Murray (1857-1929), Episcopal bishop of Maryland and Presiding Bishop
- John Gregory Murray (1877-1956), Roman Catholic archbishop of Saint Paul
- John Murray (theologian) (1898-1975), Scottish-born Calvinist theologian and Presbyterian minister
- John W. Murray (died 1996), pastor, evangelist, and president of Shelton College
- John Murray (Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow) (1901-1973), priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church
- John Courtney Murray (1904-1967), Jesuit priest and theologian
- John Murray (Archdeacon of Dublin) (1916-2005), priest in the Church of Ireland
- John Murray (Archdeacon of Cashel)
Science
- John Murray (physician) (1778-1820), Scottish geologist and lecturer in various scientific subjects
- John Murray (science lecturer) (c. 1786-1851), Scottish geologist
- Sir John Murray (oceanographer) (1841-1914), Scots-Canadian marine biologist credited as the “father of modern oceanography”
- John O’Kane Murray (1847-1885), Irish physician and author
- John Murray (geographer) (1883-1940), Scottish educator and author
Others
- John Murray (Australian explorer) (c. 1775-c. 1807), seaman
- John Murray (abolitionist) (1787-1849), leading light in Glasgow Emancipation Society
- John Murray (Naperville founder) (1785-1868), one of the original settlers of Naperville, Illinois in 1831
- John Murray (sheep breeder), father (c. 1812-1886), and son (1841-1908), breeders of merino sheep in South Australia
- John Lamb Murray (1838-1908), Scottish architect
- John Bunion Murray (1908-1988), self-taught artist in Glascock County, Georgia