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  1. John Howard Davies (9 March 1939 – 22 August 2011) was an English director, producer and former child actor. He became famous for appearing in the title role of David Lean 's film adaptation of Oliver Twist (1948).

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    John Davies (rugby union, born 1971), rugby union footballer of the 1990s and 2000s for Wales, Llanelli, and (Llanelli) Scarlets; John Leighton Davies (1927–1995), former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer; Swimmers. John Davies (swimmer) (1929–2020), Olympic swimmer for Australia and later United States district judge

  3. Poet and lawyer Sir John Davies was born in Wiltshire and educated at Winchester College and Queen’s College, Oxford, though historians disagree about whether he graduated. In 1588, he enrolled in the Middle Temple, where he studied with John Donne, and was called to the bar in 1595.

  4. John Davies (born c. 1565, Hereford, Herefordshire, England—died July 1618, London) was an English poet and writing master whose chief work was Microcosmos (1603), a didactic religious treatise. Davies settled in Oxford and became known as the best penman of his day.

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  5. Sir John Davies (born April 1569, Tisbury, Wiltshire, Eng.—died Dec. 8, 1626) was an English poet and lawyer whose Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing reveals a typically Elizabethan pleasure in the contemplation of the correspondence between the natural order and human activity.

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  7. Feb 19, 2015 · John Davies was a leading scholar of Welsh history, culture and language, who wrote A History of Wales and The Encyclopaedia of Wales. He was also a popular and witty commentator on radio and TV, and a champion of the Welsh language and identity.

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