John Benson Brooks (1917–1999), American jazz piainst, songwriter and composer
John F. Kennedy | Pope John Paul II | Elton John | John | John Lennon | John Wayne | John McCain | John Kerry | John Cage | Olivia Newton-John | John Williams | John Peel | John Adams | John Steinbeck | John Travolta | John Milton | John Zorn | John Marshall | John Howard | John Singer Sargent | John Ruskin | John Updike | John Maynard Keynes | John Coltrane | John Cleese | St. John's | John Waters | John Lee Hooker | John Huston | John Ford |
The announcing team for the special service was mainly David Hamilton, John Benson, Sheila Kennedy and Philip Elsmore, who would all continue as Thames announcers when the regional services restarted at the end of the strike.
A retrospective John Benson exhibition was held in 1968 at the Peabody Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
Benson was the son of John Benson (1684-1766), a salt dealer of Mansriggs, near Ulverston, in Furness.