(n) (Roman Catholic Church) a Church Father who was a great preacher and bishop of Constantinople; a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-407), Syn. St. John Chrysostom
(n) hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill
(n) the fourth son of Edward III who was the effective ruler of England during the close of his father's reign and during the minority of Richard II; his son was Henry Bolingbroke (1340-1399), Syn. Duke of Lancaster
(n) (New Testament) a preacher and hermit and forerunner of Jesus (whom he baptized); was beheaded by Herod at the request of Salome, Syn. St. John the Baptist
(n) United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926), Syn. John M. Browning, John Moses Browning
(n) United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000), Syn. John Donald Budge, Don Budge
(n) British general in the American Revolution who captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost the battle of Saratoga in 1777 (1722-1792), Syn. John Burgoyne, Gentleman Johnny
(n) Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498), Syn. Giovanni Cabato, John Cabot
(n) Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564), Syn. Jean Cauvin, John Calvin, Jean Caulvin, Jean Chauvin
(n) American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815), Syn. John Copley, John Singleton Copley
(n) English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844), Syn. John Dalton
[大宪章 / 大憲章, dà xiàn zhāngㄉㄚˋ ㄒㄧㄢˋ ㄓㄤ] Magna Carta, contract forced on Norman king John of England in 1215 by his barons, subsequently viewed as a basis of constitutional government and human rights
[天路历程 / 天路歷程, tiān lù lì chéngㄊㄧㄢ ㄌㄨˋ ㄌㄧˋ ㄔㄥˊ] lit. the course of the road to heaven; Pilgrim's Progress, 1678 novel by John Bunyan (first Chinese translation 1851)