John Nixon

John Nixon is the name of:

Politicians

• John Nixon (MP), Member of the Long Parliament in England, representing Oxford City 1646-1648
• John T. Nixon (1820 - 1889), U.S. Representative from New Jersey
• John William Nixon (1880 - 1949), Unionist politician in Northern Ireland

Military figures

• John Nixon (Massachusetts) (1724–1815), Continental Army general from Massachusetts during the American Revolution
• John Nixon (financier) (1733–1808), Philadelphia merchant and militia officer during the American Revolution
• John Nixon (Indian Army officer) (1857–1921), lieutenant general in the British Indian Army

Others

• John Nixon, Armagh, Irish Republican, see 1981 Irish hunger strike#First hunger strike
• John Nixon (mining engineer) (1815–1899), English mining engineer
• John Nixon (equestrian), Canadian jockey and horse trainer, see Queen's Plate
• John B. Nixon (1928–2005), murderer in Mississippi, USA
• John E. Nixon, director of Michigan state Budget office
• John Colley Nixon (died 1818), English merchant and amateur artist
• John Trice Nixon (born 1933), U.S. federal judge