John McAndrew (Gaelic footballer)

John McAndrew, born Seán Victor McAndrew on 8 July 1927 and died on 3 January 2013, was a Gaelic footballer from Bangor Erris in County Mayo, Ireland. He won two senior All-Ireland Football Championship medals with Mayo, in 1950 and 1951, as part of the team captained by Seán Flanagan that took the title in consecutive years at Croke Park in Dublin, and by the end of his life he was among the longest surviving Mayo men to hold such medals. He also won a junior All-Ireland medal in 1957, five Connacht senior championship medals and two National Football League medals with the county. After qualifying as a doctor at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin he emigrated to England in 1961, led John Mitchels GAA club in Birmingham to several Warwickshire senior championships, and ran his own medical practice in Old Hill for more than forty years.