# George Johnson

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**George Johnson** may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

- [George W. Johnson (singer)](/source/George_W._Johnson_(singer)) (1846–1914), American singer, early recording artist
- [George Perry Johnson](/source/George_Perry_Johnson) (1885–1977), American film producer, writer, and newsreel producer
- [George Johnson (actor)](/source/George_Johnson_(actor)) (1898–1961), American actor
- [George Johnson (musician)](/source/George_Johnson_(musician)) (1913–1987), jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
- [George Johnson (artist)](/source/George_Johnson_(artist)) (1926–2021), Australian artist
- [George M. Johnson (writer)](/source/George_M._Johnson_(writer)) (born 1985), American author and activist
- George Johnson (aka Lightnin' Licks, born 1953), American musician, member of [The Brothers Johnson](/source/The_Brothers_Johnson)

## Military

- [George Owen Johnson](/source/George_Owen_Johnson) (1896–1980), Canadian aviator, RCAF Air Marshal and WWI ace
- [George Johnson (British Army officer)](/source/George_Johnson_(British_Army_officer)) (1903–1980)
- [George Johnson (general)](/source/George_Johnson_(general)) (1918–2021), United States Air Force general
- [Johnny Johnson (RAF officer)](/source/Johnny_Johnson_(RAF_officer)) (George Leonard Johnson, 1921–2022), Royal Air Force officer

## Politics

### Canada

- [George Macness Johnson](/source/George_Macness_Johnson) (1853–1935), judge and politician in Newfoundland
- [George Balfour Johnson](/source/George_Balfour_Johnson) (1865–1940), politician in Saskatchewan, Canada
- [George William Johnson (politician)](/source/George_William_Johnson_(politician)) (1892–1973), Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly from Manitoba
- [George Johnson (Manitoba politician)](/source/George_Johnson_(Manitoba_politician)) (1920–1995), Canadian lieutenant-governor of Manitoba

### U.S.

- [George W. Johnson (governor)](/source/George_W._Johnson_(governor)) (1811–1862), Confederate governor of Kentucky
- [George Y. Johnson](/source/George_Y._Johnson) (1820–1872), New York politician
- [George Alonzo Johnson](/source/George_Alonzo_Johnson) (1824–1903), 49er, Colorado River steamboat entrepreneur and California politician - [George A. Johnson & Company](/source/George_A._Johnson_%26_Company)
- [George A. Johnson](/source/George_A._Johnson) (1829–1894), attorney general of the state of California
- [George William Johnson (congressman)](/source/George_William_Johnson_(congressman)) (1869–1944), American congressman from West Virginia
- [George E. Q. Johnson](/source/George_E._Q._Johnson) (1874–1949), U.S. federal judge
- [George W. Johnson (Minnesota politician)](/source/George_W._Johnson_(Minnesota_politician)) (1894–1974), speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives and 28th Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota
- [George R. Johnson](/source/George_R._Johnson) (1929–1973), Pennsylvania politician
- [George Dean Johnson Jr.](/source/George_Dean_Johnson_Jr.) (born 1942), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
- [George F. Johnson IV](/source/George_F._Johnson_IV) (born c. 1953), American politician and sheriff

### Other politicians

- [George Johnson (MP for Devizes)](/source/George_Johnson_(MP_for_Devizes)) (1626–1683)
- [George Johnson (Australian politician)](/source/George_Johnson_(Australian_politician)) (1811–1902), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
- [George Randall Johnson](/source/George_Randall_Johnson) (1833–1919), British cricketer and member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
- [George Johnson (Independent Labour Party politician)](/source/George_Johnson_(Independent_Labour_Party_politician)) (1872–1958), British socialist politician

## Sports

### Association football

- [George Johnson (footballer, born 1871)](/source/George_Johnson_(footballer,_born_1871)) (1871–1934), English football forward (Walsall, Aston Villa)
- [George Johnson (footballer, born 1904)](/source/George_Johnson_(footballer,_born_1904)) (1904–1985) was an English footballer (Ashington, Reading, Sheffield Wednesday, Watford)
- [George Johnson (footballer, born 1907)](/source/George_Johnson_(footballer,_born_1907)) (1907–1989), English football fullback (Wigan Borough, Darlington)
- [George Johnson (football manager)](/source/George_Johnson_(football_manager)), Leicester City manager

### Basketball

- [George E. Johnson (basketball)](/source/George_E._Johnson_(basketball)) (born 1947), American ABA/NBA player
- [George T. Johnson](/source/George_T._Johnson) (born 1948), American NBA player
- [George L. Johnson](/source/George_L._Johnson) (born 1956), American NBA player

### Other sports

- [George S. Johnson](/source/George_S._Johnson) (1879–1948), Australian rules footballer
- [Chief Johnson](/source/Chief_Johnson) (1886–1922), American baseball player
- [George Johnson (baseball)](/source/George_Johnson_(baseball)) (1890–1940), American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues
- [George Johnson (cricketer, born 1894)](/source/George_Johnson_(cricketer,_born_1894)) (1894–1965), English cricketer
- [George Johnson (cricketer, born 1907)](/source/George_Johnson_(cricketer,_born_1907)) (1907–1986), English cricketer
- [George Johnson (sport shooter)](/source/George_Johnson_(sport_shooter)) (1915–2006), Puerto Rican Olympic shooter
- [George Johnson (athlete)](/source/George_Johnson_(athlete)) (born 1938), Liberian athlete
- [George Johnson (boxer)](/source/George_Johnson_(boxer)) (1938–2016), American heavyweight boxer
- [George Johnson (American football player)](/source/George_Johnson_(American_football_player)) (born 1989), American football defensive end
- [George Johnson (American football coach)](/source/George_Johnson_(American_football_coach)), head football coach at Bucknell University from 1915 to 1917
- [Chappie Johnson](/source/Chappie_Johnson) (George Johnson, 1877–1949), American baseball player and team manager, Negro leagues career 1896–1919

## Writers

- [George William Johnson (writer)](/source/George_William_Johnson_(writer)) (1802–1886), British writer
- [George Metcalf Johnson](/source/George_Metcalf_Johnson) (1885–1965), American mystery and western writer, also wrote as George Metcalf
- [George Clayton Johnson](/source/George_Clayton_Johnson) (1929–2015), American science fiction writer
- [George B. Johnson](/source/George_B._Johnson) (born 1942), American science writer
- [George Johnson (writer)](/source/George_Johnson_(writer)) (born 1952), American science writer, including for *The New York Times*
- [George Washington Johnson (poet)](/source/George_Washington_Johnson_(poet)) (1839–1917), Canadian schoolteacher and poet

## Others

- [George Johnson (priest)](/source/George_Johnson_(priest)) (1808–1881), British clergyman and academic
- [George Henry Martin Johnson](/source/George_Henry_Martin_Johnson) (1816–1884), Iroquois chief
- [George Johnson (physician)](/source/George_Johnson_(physician)) (1818–1896), English physician
- [George Johnson (statistician)](/source/George_Johnson_(statistician)) (1837-1911), Canadian statistician
- [George Raymond Johnson](/source/George_Raymond_Johnson) (1840–1898), English architect in Australia
- [George Lindsay Johnson](/source/George_Lindsay_Johnson) (1853–1943), British ophthalmologist
- [George F. Johnson](/source/George_F._Johnson) (1857–1948), American businessman
- [George Marion Johnson](/source/George_Marion_Johnson) (1900–1987), American law professor and academic administrator
- [George E. Johnson Sr.](/source/George_E._Johnson_Sr.) (born 1927), American entrepreneur
- [George W. Johnson (academic)](/source/George_W._Johnson_(academic)) (1928–2017), American academic and academic administrator
- George Johnson, Tongass tribal chief and namesake of the [Chief Johnson totem pole](/source/Chief_Johnson_totem_pole)

## Other uses

- [USS *George A. Johnson*](/source/USS_George_A._Johnson), a United States Navy destroyer escort in commission from 1944 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1957
- [USS *George H. Johnson* (SP-379)](/source/USS_George_H._Johnson_(SP-379)), the proposed name and designation of a commercial freight lighter the United States Navy considered for service during World War I but never acquired
- [George P. Johnson](/source/George_P._Johnson), an American multinational corporation

## See also

- [George Johnston (disambiguation)](/source/George_Johnston_(disambiguation))
- [George Johnstone (disambiguation)](/source/George_Johnstone_(disambiguation))

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