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John Fraser may refer to:

Politics

  • John Simon Frederick Fraser (1765–1803), commanded the Fraser Fencibles in Ireland and was (M.P.) for Inverness-shire
  • John James Fraser (1829–1896), 5th Premier of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, 1878–1882
  • John A. Fraser (politician) (1840–1908), political figure in Nova Scotia
  • John G. Fraser (1840–1927), Orange Free State politician
  • John Fraser (Ontario MP) (1849–1928), Canadian Member of Parliament for Lambton East, Ontario
  • John Fraser (British Columbia politician) (1866–1960), Canadian Member of Parliament from British Columbia, 1925–1935
  • Sir Malcolm Fraser, 1st Baronet (John Malcolm Fraser, 1878–1949), British newspaper editor and political agent
  • John Malcolm Fraser (1930–2015), 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, 1975–1983
  • John Allen Fraser (born 1931), Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, 1986–1993
  • John Fraser (British politician) (1934–2017), British Member of Parliament for Norwood
  • John Fraser (Ontario MPP) (born 1958), Canadian politician elected to the Ontario legislature for Ottawa South in 2013

Sports

  • John Fraser (footballer, born 1876) (1876–1952), Scottish footballer, Southampton player and Dundee manager
  • John Fraser (Canadian soccer) (1881–1959), Canadian soccer player and member of the 1904 Olympic Games Canadian Team
  • John Fraser (tennis) (born 1935), Australian tennis player of the 1950s and 60s
  • John Fraser (footballer, born 1936), Scottish footballer for Hibernian
  • John Fraser (footballer, born 1938) (1938–2011), Northern Ireland footballer for Sunderland and Watford
  • John Fraser (footballer, born 1953), English footballer for Fulham
  • John Frazer (Australian footballer) (born 1956), Australian rules footballer for North Melbourne and Fitzroy
  • John Fraser (footballer, born 1978), Scottish footballer whose clubs include Ross County, Clyde and Forfar Athletic

Academia

  • John Fraser (botanist) (1750–1811), Scottish botanist
  • John Fraser (academic) (c. 1823–1878), president of Pennsylvania State University, 1866–1868
  • John Fraser (Celticist) (1882–1945), Jesus Professor of Celtic at the University of Oxford
  • John Fraser (journalist) (born 1944), Canadian journalist and master of Massey College, University of Toronto

Others

  • John Fraser (died 1306), Scottish independence fighter, brother of Simon Fraser
  • John Fraser (bishop) (died 1507), Bishop of Ross, Scotland
  • John Fraser (frontiersman) (1721–1773), Colonial Pennsylvanian fur trader and soldier
  • John Fraser (British Army officer) (1760–1843)
  • John Fraser (poet) (c. 1809–1849), Irish poet
  • John Fraser (architect) (1825–1906), American architect
  • John Fraser (ethnologist) (1834-1904), Australian ethnologist
  • John Arthur Fraser (1838–1898), British artist, photography entrepreneur and teacher
  • John Fraser (businessman) (1843–1907), Scottish businessman who partnered with David Chalmers Neave to co-found Fraser and Neave
  • Sir John Foster Fraser (1868–1936), British Parliamentary correspondent and travel writer
  • John Fraser (auditor), Auditor General of Canada, 1905–1919
  • John Fraser (surgeon) (1885–1947), principal of the University of Edinburgh, 1944–1948
  • John R. Fraser (1890–1959), Canadian physician
  • John Fraser (minister) (1894–1985), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1958–1959
  • John Fraser (British Army officer, born 1896) (1896–1943), British recipient of the George Cross
  • John Fraser (critic) (born 1928), English/Canadian author, literary theorist, and cultural analyst
  • John Fraser (film producer) (1930–2010), Australian film producer and cinema executive
  • John Fraser (actor) (1931–2020), Scottish actor
  • John MacLeod Fraser (1935–2010), former Canadian ambassador to China
  • John Fraser (novelist, poet) (born 1939), English professor, novelist, and poet
  • John A. Fraser (businessman) (born 1951), Australian businessman
  • John Fraser, a musician in the James Wright Group

Other uses

  • John B. Fraser, a steamship lost on Lake Nippising
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