title: John Avery
text: # John Avery
  
  John Avery may refer to:
  
  ## Politics and law
  
  * John Avery (MP for Old Sarum) (1362–1397), MP for Old Sarum
  * John Avery (MP for Weymouth) (fl. 1393), MP for Weymouth
  * John Avery Jr. (1739–1806), American politician; first Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
  * John Avery (politician) (1824–1914), American physician and U.S. representative from Michigan
  * John Avery (lawyer) (born 1948), Australian barrister
  
  ## Others
  
  * Henry Every (alias "John Avery", 1659–after 1699), English pirate
  * John Avery (organ builder) (c. 1755–1807), English organ builder
  * Skip Avery (John Thomas Avery, 1923–1990), American baseball player
  * John Avery (police officer) (1927–2018), Australian police commissioner
  * John Scales Avery (born 1933), American physicist and chemist
  * John Avery (gridiron football) (born 1976), American football player in the NFL and CFL
  * John Avery (journalist), Belizean public utilities commissioner and journalist
  