John Edwards (disambiguation)

John Edwards (born 1953) is an American politician who was the Democratic Party's vice-presidential nominee in the 2004 U.S. presidential election and a candidate for the 2004 and 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

John Edwards may also refer to:

Entertainment

John Edwards (1699–1776), Welsh poet
John Edwards (1747–1792), Welsh poet
John Edwards (1751–1832), Irish poet
John Edwards (painter) (1742–1815), English painter, designer, illustrator and botanist
John Kelt Edwards (1875–1934), Welsh artist and cartoonist
John Paul Edwards (1884–1968), American photographer
John Uzzell Edwards (1934–2014), Welsh painter
John Edwards (singer) (1944–2025), American R&B singer for the Spinners
John Edwards (musician) (born 1953), English bass guitarist for Status Quo
John Edwards (producer) (born 1953), Australian television drama producer
Johnny Edwards (musician), American singer for the band Foreigner

Politics

United States

John Edwards (Kentucky politician) (1748–1837), Anti-Administration party
John Edwards (Charleston politician) (1760–1798), mayor of Charleston, South Carolina
John Edwards Caldwell (1769–1819), consular agent for the West Indies and San Domingo
John Stark Edwards (1777–1813), Ohio's 6th congressional district
John Edwards (New York politician) (1781–1850), 15th congressional district, 1837–1839
John Edwards (Pennsylvania politician) (1786–1843), 4th congressional district Anti-Mason (1839–1841) and Whig (1841–1843)
John C. Edwards (1804–1888), Democrat from Missouri; Congress at-large (1841–1843); governor (1844–1848)
John Edwards (Arkansas politician) (1815–1894), 3rd congressional district (March 1871 – February 1872)
John Edwards (Wisconsin politician) (1831–1891), Wisconsin State Assembly
John H. Edwards (banker) (1875–1955), Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
John S. Edwards (Virginia politician) (born 1943), in the Senate of Virginia
John Edwards (Rhode Island politician) (born 1958), state legislator in Rhode Island
John Bel Edwards (born 1966), Governor of Louisiana
John Charles Edwards, Arkansas House of Representatives

United Kingdom

John Edwards (MP for Bridgwater) (fl. 1562–1573), MP for Bridgwater
John Edwards (MP for Denbighshire) (c. 1562–1625), MP for Denbighshire
John Edwards (MP for Flint Boroughs) (died 1635), MP for Flint Boroughs
Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, of Garth (1770–1850), British MP for Montgomery (1833–1841)
John Edwards-Vaughan (1772–1833), British MP for Glamorganshire and Wells
John Passmore Edwards (1823–1911), British Liberal MP for Salisbury, elected in 1880; also newspaperman and philanthropist
J. Hugh Edwards (1869–1945), British Liberal MP for Mid Glamorgan (1910–1918); Neath (1918–1922); Accrington (1923–1929)
John Edwards (Welsh politician) (1882–1960), British Liberal MP for Aberavon (1918–1922)
John Edwards (Labour politician) (1904–1959), British MP for Blackburn (1945–1950); Brighouse and Spenborough (1950–1959)

Elsewhere

John Edwards (Australian politician) (1820–1872), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
John Wesley Edwards (1865–1929), Conservative politician from Ontario; House of Commons (1908–1921 and 1925–1929)
John Edwards (regulator), New Zealand-born Information Commissioner for the United Kingdom

Religion

John Edwards (divine) (1637–1716), English Calvinistic divine
John Edwards (minister) (1714–1785), English dissenting minister at Leeds, Yorkshire
John Edwards (Unitarian minister) (1768–1808), English nonconformist and political radical
John Edwards (missionary) (1828–1903), American protestant minister to the Choctaw Nation, best known for work at Wheelock Mission in present-day Oklahoma
John Edwards (hymnist) (1805–1885), Welsh Anglican priest and hymn composer
John Edwards (archdeacon of St Asaph) (1889–1976), Welsh Anglican priest

Sports

John Hawley Edwards (1850–1893), footballer in England and Wales; a founder of Welsh Football Association
Jack Edwards (cricketer, born 1860) (John Dunlop Edwards, 1860–1911), Australian cricketer
John Edwards (footballer, born 1875) (1875–?), English footballer
John Edwards (Canadian football) (1912–2005), Canadian football player
John Edwards (cricketer, born 1928) (1928–2002), Australian cricketer
John Edwards (Barbadian cricketer) (1909–1976), Barbadian cricketer
John Edwards (Australian footballer) (born 1942), Australian rules footballer
John Edwards (canoeist) (born 1954), Canadian sprint canoer
John Edwards (basketball) (born 1981), American basketball player
John Edwards (racing driver) (born 1991), American racing driver
Johnny Edwards (baseball) (born 1938), American MLB National League catcher

Other

John Edwards (academic) (1600–1660?), professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University 1638–1648
John Edwards (Siôn Treredyn) (1605/6–1656), Welsh translator who used the pen name "Siôn Treredyn"
John Edwards (American Civil War sailor) (1831–1902), member of U.S. Navy who was awarded Medal of Honor during the Civil War
John Newman Edwards (1839–1889), American frontier writer and newspaperman
John D. Edwards (1885–1918), American naval officer awarded the Navy Cross
John Bryn Edwards (1889–1922), Welsh ironmaster and philanthropist
John Ellis Edwards (1922–1979), Tuskegee airman
John Menlove Edwards (1910–1958), English child psychologist and poet
John H. Edwards (1928–2007), British medical geneticist
John Robert Edwards (born 1947), professor of psychology and language in Nova Scotia
John A. Edwards (born 1960), Irish judge
John M. Edwards, professor of surgery
John Edwards (British Army officer) (1896–1984)
John R. Edwards (US Marshal) (born 1942), American law enforcement officer from Vermont
John R. Edwards (general), United States Air Force general
John Edwards (1846–1937), Scottish lawyer, palaeographer and collector, see Edwards Professor of Medieval History
John Timothy Edwards (1975–1994), Florida State University student murdered in 1994, see Murder of John Edwards