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Daniel J. Jacob

Daniel J. Jacob is the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering at Harvard, known for atmospheric methane research and developing the GEOS-Chem model used worldwide.

Daniel J. Jones

Daniel J. Jones, also Dan Jones, former FBI analyst and Senate Intelligence Committee lead investigator of the CIA torture report, later founder of Advance Democracy and subject of the film The Report.

Daniel J. Kleitman

Daniel J. Kleitman (born 1934) is an American applied mathematician at MIT known for extremal set theory, the Greene–Kleitman theorem, and joint work with Paul Erdős.

Daniel J. Klionsky

Daniel J. Klionsky is an American cell biologist at the University of Michigan who studies autophagy in yeast, helped identify many ATG genes, and leads the field's assay guidelines.

Daniel J. Kronauer

Daniel J. Kronauer is a behavioral biologist who leads the Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior at The Rockefeller University and has been an HHMI Investigator since 2021.

Daniel J. Lew

Daniel J. Lew is an American cell biologist, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor at Duke University, who studies how yeast cells establish polarity via the Cdc42 GTPase.

Daniel J. Lovell

Daniel J. Lovell is an American pediatric rheumatologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known for pivotal trials of biologic therapies in juvenile idiopathic arthritis published from 2000 to 2012.

Daniel J. Mindiola

Daniel J. Mindiola is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist, Brush Family Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for iridium-catalyzed methane borylation and alkane dehydrogenation with titanium.

Daniel J. Müller

Daniel J. Müller is a Swiss-based biophysicist and chair of biophysics and bionanotechnology at ETH Zurich in Basel, where he develops atomic force microscopy methods for living systems.

Daniel J. P. Calabretta

Daniel J. P. Calabretta is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of California since 2023, appointed by President Biden.

Daniel J. Price

Daniel J. Price, also known as Daniel Price, is an Australian computational astrophysicist and professor at Monash University in Melbourne, known for the PHANTOM and SPLASH codes.

Daniel J. Rader

Daniel J. Rader is an American physician-scientist in human genetics and lipid metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania, chair of its Department of Genetics since 2014.

Daniel J. Sargent

Daniel J. Sargent, also known as Daniel Sargent, was an American biostatistician at Mayo Clinic who designed cancer clinical trials until his death in 2016.

Daniel J. Siegwart

Daniel J. Siegwart is a biochemist and nanomedicine researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center who developed SORT lipid nanoparticles for tissue-specific mRNA delivery and CRISPR gene editing.

Daniel J. Travanti

Daniel J. Travanti (Daniel Giovanni Travanti, born March 7, 1940, Kenosha, Wisconsin) is an American actor, two-time Emmy winner as Capt. Frank Furillo on Hill Street Blues (1981-1987), later in Adam, Murrow, and Missing Persons.

Daniel J. Weix

Daniel J. Weix is an American organometallic chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for developing nickel-catalyzed cross-electrophile coupling, which joins two different electrophiles without preformed organometallic reagents.

Daniel Jackson (Stargate)

Daniel Jackson is the fictional archaeologist and linguist of the Stargate franchise, played by James Spader in the 1994 film and Michael Shanks in Stargate SG-1; he opens the Stargate, joins SG-1, and ascends in "Meridian."

Daniel Jacobs (astronomer)

Daniel Jacobs is an American astrophysicist and assistant professor at Arizona State University who received the 2025 PECASE award for his research on the early universe.

Daniel Jacobs (boxer)

Daniel Jacobs, born 1987, is an American boxer from Brooklyn who won the WBA middleweight title in 2014 and returned from spinal bone cancer as the Miracle Man.

Daniel Jaeggi

Daniel Jaeggi is a Swiss commodity trader, born in Bern and based in Geneva, who co-founded Mercuria Energy Group in 2004 and serves as its president.

Daniel James (footballer)

Daniel Owen James, born 1997 in Beverley, England, is a Welsh winger who plays for Leeds United and Wales, winning the 2024-25 Championship and the club's Player of the Season award.

Daniel James Brown

Daniel James Brown is an American narrative nonfiction author of The Boys in the Boat (2013 Carnegie Medal), Under a Flaming Sky, The Indifferent Stars Above, and Facing the Mountain; distinct from thriller writer Dan Brown.

Daniel Jarosz

Daniel F. Jarosz is a Stanford molecular biologist who studies prions as protein-based molecular memories regulating gene expression, and became Stanford Medicine's first senior associate dean for basic science in 2025.

Daniel Jarque

Daniel Jarque González (Dani Jarque), Spanish central defender, one-club Espanyol captain who died of heart failure in Coverciano, Florence, on 8 August 2009, aged 26; number 21 retired, training ground named for him.

Daniel Jean Stanley

Jean-Daniel Stanley, also published as Daniel Jean Stanley, was a French-born American sedimentologist and geological oceanographer at the Smithsonian Institution, known for his decades-long study of the Nile delta.

Dániel Jellinek

Dániel Jellinek is a Hungarian businessman, founder, chief executive, and majority owner of Indotek Group, a Budapest real estate firm managing over EUR 2.5 billion in assets.

Daniel Jerent

Daniel Jérent, French épée fencer born 1991 in Guadeloupe, Olympic team gold medalist at Rio 2016, three-time world team champion (2014, 2017, 2019), retired 2023.

Daniel Johns

Daniel Paul Johns, born 1979 in Newcastle, Australia, is the Silverchair frontman and songwriter behind five consecutive Australian number-one albums, later of The Dissociatives and Dreams, and a solo artist with Talk (2015) and FutureNever (2022).

Daniel Johnston

Daniel Dale Johnston (1961–2019), American lo-fi outsider singer-songwriter and artist from Austin, Texas; self-distributed 1980s cassettes like Hi, How Are You, championed by Kurt Cobain, one Atlantic album (Fun), subject of The Devil and Daniel Johnston.

Daniel Jones (American football)

Daniel Jones, NFL quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, formerly New York Giants first-round pick (2019, sixth overall) from Duke. Known for his 2022 playoff season, $160M Giants extension, 2024 release, and 2025 Colts revival before an Achilles tear.