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John Dudley Ball Jr. (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) [1] was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night , which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an ...
John Ball (16th-century MP) (c.1518–1556), English Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich John Ball (assemblyman) (1756–1838), American soldier and politician John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, MP for Dublin University 1868–1875
John Ball (c. 1338 [1] – 15 July 1381) was an English priest who took a prominent part in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. [2] Although he is often associated with John Wycliffe and the Lollard movement , Ball was actively preaching "articles contrary to the faith of the church" at least a decade before Wycliffe started attracting attention.
Sir John Macleod Ball (born 19 May 1948) is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2003 to 2006 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford .
John Thomas Ball (born May 10, 1990) is an American Christian musician and guitarist, who plays alternative rock, folk rock, indie folk and indie rock music. He has released three extended plays , Found Among the Broken (2010), John Ball (2013), and By Declaration & the Death (2016).
Schaff Herzog article on John Ball; Works by John Ball at Post-Reformation Digital Library; A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace (1645) Posthumous work by John Ball - first few chapters only in this online text. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article - this is a subscription service but many UK library users can access it with their ...
Ball moved to Sydney in 1974 and worked as an industrial chemist. He wrote a novel for adults and later changed jobs to editor of the School Magazine at the Department of Education of New South Wales. He continued to work there for a few years, then resigned to become a full-time author, a profession which he continues today. [1]
John Ball (20 August 1818 – 21 October 1889) was an Irish politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller. Background and education. Ball was born in Dublin, the ...