John Carey (critic)

John Carey, is a British literary critic, and post-retirement (2002) emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books. He has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2003, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005.

5 April 1934

Born on the same birth date (5 April 1934): Moise Safra • Roman Herzog • Stanley Turrentine

Born on the same birth day (5 April): Arild Monsen • Diamond D • Dmytro Ryzhuk • Dwain Chambers • Felice Borel • Franz Eckert • Guilherme Torres • Haruma Miura • Ivar Giaever • John Hartson • Liang Yusheng • Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt • Matt Bonner • Melvyn Douglas • Montgomery Gentry • Oleg Khodkov • Paul Weinstein (athlete) • Robert Bloch • Sei Muroya • Tarek El-Said • Vakhtang Iagorashvili • Walter W. Winans

Born in the same month (April 1934): April 13 • Bill Birch • Carl Kasell • Dickie Goodman • Don Kirshner • George Shirley • Helen Hanft • Ian Richardson • James Drury • Jim Parker (American football) • Kisho Kurokawa • Kronid Lyubarsky • Mark Strand • Paul Cohen • Peter Morris (surgeon) • Tom Phillis