Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

John Henry Faulk Library of the Austin Public Library

( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.

But John Austin ( 1790 – 1859 ), an early positivist, applied utilitarianism in accepting the calculating nature of human beings and the existence of an objective morality.

Portrait of Edwin Austin Abbey by John Singer Sargent.

Henry Bruce was born at Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, the son of John Bruce, a Glamorganshire landowner, by his wife Sarah, daughter of Reverend Hugh Williams Austin.

Irish traditional music stylists include John and Pip Murphy, Noel Battle, Austin Berry, James Conway, Andy Irvine, Mick Kinsella, Brendan Power, Joel Bernstein, Don Meade, Paul Moran, Tom Byrne and Rick Epping.

Bentham's views about law and jurisprudence were popularized by his student, John Austin.

In the philosophy of language these views are often associated with Wittgenstein ’ s later works and with ordinary language philosophers such as Paul Grice, John Searle and J. L. Austin.

* John Langshaw Austin

* 1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.

One of the early positivists was Jeremy Bentham, whose views were popularized by his student, John Austin.

* John Austin ( legal philosophy )

Some can be unrealistic and cartoon-like ( such as Doink the Clown ), while others carry more verisimilitude ( such as Chris Jericho, The Rock, John Cena Stone Cold Steve Austin, and CM Punk ).

In the 1870s there was a revival of interest in French forms, led by Andrew Lang, Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, W. E. Henley, John Payne, and others.

* March 3 – John Austin, English jurist ( d. 1859 )

Very good friends with University of Illinois Director of Bands Albert Austin Harding, John Philip Sousa was a large benefactor of the University of Illinois ( UIUC ) music program.

* Organizational Behavior Management Network, Dr. John Austin, Dr. Dale Brethower, Dr. Alyce Dickinson.

* Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis, John Austin & James E. Carr.

Austin and further developed by John Searle, centers around the idea of the performative, a type of utterance that performs the very action it describes.

Following the usage of, for example, John R. Searle, " speech act " is often meant to refer just to the same thing as the term illocutionary act, which John L. Austin had originally introduced in How to Do Things with Words ( published posthumously in 1962 ).

* 1962 – John " Hot Rod " Williams, American basketball player

* 1962 – John Korfas, Greek basketball player

* 1960 – John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach

* 1965 – John Starks, American basketball player

* 1953 – John Beilein, American basketball coach

* 1919 – John Abramovic, American basketball player ( d. 2000 )

* 1974 – John Wallace, American basketball player

* 1916 – John Kundla, American basketball coach

* John Brown ( basketball ) ( born 1951 ), NBA player

* John Nash ( basketball ), executive for several teams in the NBA, most recently General Manager of the Portland Trail Blazers

* 1966 – John Thompson III, American basketball coach

* Northern's multi-purpose student events center, funded in part by a $ 2 million donation by 1971 alumnus John Berry, opened in 1999 and is the home of the Northern Michigan University hockey and men's and women's basketball teams.

The 1992 Olympic basketball Dream Team, the first to use current NBA stars, featured Michael Jordan as the anchor, along with Bird, Magic, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Chris Mullin, Charles Barkley, and Christian Laettner.

Dirk Nowitzki and John Wall ( basketball ) | John Wall in action as the Dallas Mavericks face the Washington Wizards in 2011

* 1953 – John Lucas II, American basketball player and coach

* 1910 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach ( d. 2010 )

* 1941 – John Thompson, Jr., American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster

Famous athletes include Baseball Hall of Fame members Roger Bresnahan and Addie Joss, U. S. boxing Olympian Devin Vargas, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Erik Kynard ( Track & Field, high jump ), professional basketball player John Amaechi, retired NBA player Jim Jackson, and NBA Champions Chicago Bulls Dennis Hopson.

* May 16 – John Salley, American basketball player and talk show host

* October 8 – John McLendon, American basketball coach ( b. 1915 )

** John Thompson, American basketball coach

* July 3 – John Kundla, American basketball coach

* April 8 – John Havlicek, American basketball player

* March 26 – John Stockton, American basketball player