John Flynn
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Australian Presbyterian minister and founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (1880-1951)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 15
Top works
- Upper Third of the Face for Otolaryngologists, an Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America
- Orion's Mission
- Keepers Meet Questing Eyes
- Restless Vanishings
- Imaginary Conversations with Famous People
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Few people who knew singer-songwriter John Flynn as a boy would have predicted the path his life would take. A self-professed "painfully straight" arrow, as a senior at Ridley High in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the former altar boy who once strummed a New Year's Day banjo in the world famous Mummers parade was named president of the National Honor Society and Scholar Athlete of the Year while receiving two congressional nominations to the United States Naval Academy. <a href="https://w
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Flynn
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Moliagul
- Place of death
- Sydney
- Occupation
- aircraft pilot
- Educated at
- University of Melbourne
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Presbyterianism
- Image
- Rev John Flynn 1929.jpg
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- John Flynn
- date of birth
- 1880-11-25
- date of death
- 1951-05-05
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