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John Playfair (894 bytes)
1: [[image:John_Playfair.jpg|thumb|200px|John Playfair.]]
2: '''John Playfair''' ([[March 10]], [[1748]] – [[July 20]], [...
4: Playfair was professor of [[mathematics]] and later profes...
6: ...ation of [[Euclid]]'s parallel postulate called [[Playfair's axiom]].
12: [[Category:1748 births|Playfair, John]]

Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (3778 bytes)
1: [[image:Lyon_Playfair.jpg|thumb|200px|Lord Playfair]]
2: '''Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair''', [[Order of the Bath|GCB]], [[Royal Society|FR...
4: ...he Inspector General of Hospitals in that region, Playfair was educated at [[St Andrews University]], the [[...
6: After returning to [[Britain]], Playfair became manager of a calico works in Primrose, nea...
8: ...ppointed [[Order of the Bath|CB]] that same year, Playfair also became [[Gentleman Usher]] to [[Prince Alber...

Baron Playfair (392 bytes)
1: ...created on [[September 3]], [[1892]] for Sir Lyon Playfair. It became extinct with the death of the second [...
3: ==Barons Playfair([[1892]])==
4: *[[Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair]] ([[1818]]-[[1898]])
5: *[[George James Playfair, 2nd Baron Playfair]] ([[1849]]-[[1939]])
7: [[Category:Baronies|Playfair]]

Playfair cipher (5220 bytes)
1: ...plex [[Vigenère cipher]] systems then in use. The Playfair is thus significantly harder to break since the [...
3: ...se of its complexity. When told by Wheatstone and Playfair that boys in a nearby school had learned to use i...
18: Using "playfair example" as the key, the table becomes:
49: Like most pre-modern era ciphers, the Playfair cipher can be easily cracked if there is enough t...
81: ...ome lecture notes on ciphers - DIGRAPHIC CIPHERS: PLAYFAIR]

Playfair Project (709 bytes)
1: ...ng]]. The project was named after [[William Henry Playfair]], the original designer of both buildings. It ha...
6: ...74.stm BBC News - Report on the completion of the Playfair Project]

Playfair (crater) (131 bytes)
1: There is more than one [[crater]] named '''Playfair''':
2: * [[Playfair (Lunar crater)]]
3: * [[Playfair (crater on Mars)]]

Nigel Playfair (2947 bytes)
1: '''Nigel Playfair''' ([[1874]]-[[1934]]) was the great actor-manage...
5: By then Playfair was well known. He had produced [[Shakespeare]]'s...
7: ...in what is now considered to have been another of Playfair's masterpieces.
9: Playfair is credited with a major influence on the [[BBC]]...
11: Playfair also appeared in a few motion picture [[film]]s d...

William Playfair (1719 bytes)
1: '''William Playfair''' ([[1759]]-[[1823]]),
5: Playfair argued that charts communicated better than table...
11: The third edition appeared in 1801. Playfair's ''Statistical Breviary,'' published in London i...
17: *Playfair, William, 1786, The Commercial and Political Atla...
19: ...ww.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/missed.html#playfair Playfair's Charts, revisited]

William Henry Playfair (1126 bytes)
1: '''William Henry Playfair''' ([[1790]]-[[1857]]) was one of the greatest Sc...
9: ... of Scotland opened to the public two years after Playfair's death.
13: [[Category:1790 births|Playfair, William Henry]]
14: [[Category:1857 deaths|Playfair, William Henry]]
15: [[Category:British architects|Playfair, William Henry]]

Playfair (Lunar crater) (2341 bytes)
7: eponym=[[John Playfair]]}}
8: ... is almost twice the diameter of Playfair itself. Playfair crater is nearly due north of [[Apianus (crater)|...
14: ...e side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Playfair
18: !width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Playfair

Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley (1879 bytes)
1: ...unded from his father's (Stevas) and mother's (St John-O'Connor).
22: ...ategory:1929 births|St John of Fawsley, Norman St John-Stevas, Baron]]
23: ... Duchy of Lancaster|St John of Fawsley, Norman St John-Stevas, Baron]]
24: [[Category:Members of the Privy Council|St. John, Norman Anthony Francis, Baron]]
25: ...gory:Presidents of the Cambridge Union Society|St John-Stevas, Norman]]

John a Kent and John a Cumber (602 bytes)
1: '''''John a Kent and John a Cumber''''' is a 16th century play by [[Anthony...

John John Jesse (760 bytes)
1: [[John John Jesse]] is a popular illustrative painter from [[...
8: ...tatlarge.com/pages/JJJ_pages1/JJJ_index1.htm John John Jesse's art from Sept 9, 2004 Art@Large Gallery S...

John John Molina (6109 bytes)
1: ... [[March 17]], [[1965]]), better known as '''John John Molina''' in the [[world]] of [[boxing]], is a fo...
35: [[Category:1965 births|Molina, John John]]

John I (701 bytes)
1: John I was the name of a number of rulers:
3: *[[Pope John I]]
4: *King [[John I of France]]
5: *King [[John I of Castile]]
6: *King [[John I of Scotland]]

John So (4080 bytes)
1: [[image:ac.johnso.jpg|thumb|300px|Councillor John So]]
3: '''John Chun Sai So''' (蘇震西, [[pinyi...
26: [[Category:1946 births|So, John]]
27: [[Category:Chinese Australians|So, John]]

John More (161 bytes)
1: Major '''John More''' was the [[British]] Political Agent to [[...

John IV (246 bytes)
1: '''John IV''' was the name of a number of rulers:
3: *[[Pope John IV]]
4: *[[John IV Lascaris]]
6: *[[John IV, Duke of Brittany]]
7: *[[John IV of Ethiopia]]

John V (270 bytes)
1: '''John V''' was the name of a number of leaders:
3: *[[John V of Alexandria]]
4: *[[John V of Portugal]]
5: *[[John V Palaeologus]]
6: *[[John V, Duke of Brittany]]

John N. Little (659 bytes)
1: '''John N.''' ('''Jack''') '''Little''' is the president ...

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