John Flynn OBE (25 November 1880 – 5 May 1951) was an Australian Presbyterian minister who founded the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) which later separated into Frontier Services and the Presbyterian Inland Mission, as well as founding what became the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the world's first air ambulance.

John Flynn was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Australia (1939–42) and missionary to the country’s wild central and northern inland, who in 1928 founded what later became the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.

John Flynn was 51 when he married the secretary of AIM, Miss Jean Baird in 1932. The years to follow saw Australia struggle through the Great Depression and Mrs Flynn became a great support to her visionary and hard-working husband. Flynn, was twice Moderator General of the Presbyterian Church.

John Flynn was born in Moliagul in His parents were Thomas Eugene Flynn and Rosetta Forsyth. Because his mother died while giving birth to him, John was raised by his mother’s sister in Sydney, Australia.. When he was 16, Flynn decided that he wanted to become a Presbyterian minister and study theology (religion) at the University of Melbourne.In 1911, he finished his …

John Flynn (March 14, 1932 – April 4, 2007) was an American film director and screenwriter known for films such as The Outfit and Rolling Thunder. [1] Flynn was born in Chicago and raised in Hermosa Beach, California. He served in the Coast Guard, and studied journalism with Roots author Alex Haley. Flynn received a degree in journalism from UCLA.

John Flynn (1880-1951), Presbyterian minister, founder and superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, was born on 25 November 1880 at Moliagul, Victoria, second son of Thomas Eugene Flynn, schoolteacher, and his wife Rosetta Forsyth, née Lester.

Victorian pilot Lieutenant (John) Clifford Peel had heard Flynn's public speeches, and on being shipped out to France for World War I in 1917, sent Flynn a letter explaining how he had seen a missionary doctor visiting isolated patients using a plane.

The Presbyterian minister John Flynn founded the Australian Inland Mission to serve the people of Australia’s remote central and northern regions. He led the mission for almost 40 years. In 1928 he also founded what later became the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. Flynn was born on November 25, 1880, in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.

Biography of Reverend John Flynn, who pioneered the world's first aerial medical service, now known as the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Reverend John Flynn was born at Moliagul, Victoria, on 25 November 1880.

The story of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia is forever linked to its founder, the Reverend John Flynn. This effort combines medicine, aviation, and radio to bring care to the people who live, work, and travel in remote areas of Australia.