John Avery John Avery may refer to several people : John Keith Avery ( police commissioner ) , New South Wales Police , Australia . John Avery ( politician ) ( 1824–1914 ) a physician and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan John Avery ( football player ) ( born 1976 ) a former National Football League running back , then a Canadian Football League player John Avery , one of the many aliases of the notorious pirate Henry Every . John Avery , ( 1837-1887 ) , noted United States educator Avery John , a soccer player from Trinidad & Tobago John Avery ( journalist ) , editor of Belize 's Guardian newspaper This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title , which is a person 's or persons ' name . If an article link referred you here , you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page . Categories : Lists of ambiguous human names Avery , John 