title: John Chambers
text: # John Chambers
  
  John Chambers may refer to:
  
  ## Academics
  
  * John Chambers (scientist), one of two scientists who formulated the Planet V theory in 2002
  * John Chambers (statistician), creator of the S programming language and core member of the R programming language project
  * John Chambers (topographer) (1780–1839), English antiquarian
  
  ## Artists
  
  * John Chambers (artist) (1852–1928), British landscape, seascape and portrait painter
  * John Chambers (make-up artist) (1922–2001), American make-up artist, won a special Oscar for his work on Planet of the Apes
  
  ## Businessmen
  
  * John Chambers (Australian pastoralist) (c. 1815–1889), Australian pioneer, brother of James Chambers (pastoralist)
  * John Chambers (pastoralist) (1819–1893), New Zealand pastoralist, community leader and businessman
  * John Chambers (businessman) (c. 1839–1903), New Zealand businessman
  * John T. Chambers (born 1949), American businessman and former CEO of Cisco Systems
  
  ## Clergy
  
  * John Chambre (1470–1549), also Chambers, English churchman, academic and physician
  * John Chambers (bishop) (died 1556), last abbot of Peterborough abbey and, after the dissolution, the first bishop of Peterborough
  * John David Chambers (1805–1893), English legal and liturgical writer
  
  ## Politicians
  
  * John Chambers (politician) (1780–1852), American politician, governor of Iowa Territory in 1841–1845
  * John G. Chambers (Delaware politician), member of the 67th Delaware General Assembly
  * John Green Chambers (1798–1884), American politician from Texas
  * John M. Chambers (politician) (1845–1916), Irish-American businessman and politician from New York
  * John Chambers Hughes (1891–1971), United States diplomat
  * John Thomas Chambers Jr. (1928–2011), American politician from Maryland
  
  ## Sportsmen
  
  * John Chambers (Australian cricketer) (1930–2017), Australian cricketer
  * John Chambers (English cricketer) (born 1971), English cricketer
  * John Chambers (footballer) (born 1949), English footballer
  * Johnnie Chambers (1911-1977), American baseball player
  * John Graham Chambers (1843–1883), codified the "Marquess of Queensberry rules", upon which modern day boxing is based
  
  ## Others
  
  * John B. Chambers (born 1956), evaluator of sovereign debt for Standard & Poor's
  * John Chambers (writer), American television soap opera writer
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Johnny Quick, a DC Comics character whose real name was Johnny Chambers
  * Joanna "Johnny" Chambers, one of the two main characters in the 2020 novel Beneath the Rising
  