title: John Hirst
text: # John Hirst
  
  John Hirst is the name of:
  
  * John Hirst (businessman), Chief Executive of the UK Met Office
  * John Hirst (criminal) (born 1950), convicted of manslaughter in 1980 and a campaigner for prisoners' rights
  * John Hirst (historian) (1942–2016), emeritus professor of history at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
  * John Hirst (rugby league) (born 1970), rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s for Wakefield Trinity
  * Jack Hirst, rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s for England, and Featherstone Rovers
  * John Malcolm Hirst (1921–1997), British aerobiologist, agricultural botanist, and mycologist
  