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J. R. Smith

J.R. Smith (Earl Smith III, born 1985) is a former NBA shooting guard, 2004 first-round pick, Sixth Man of the Year 2013, and two-time champion (Cavaliers 2016, Lakers 2020), later a North Carolina A&T golf graduate. Not the NCAA betting fixer Jalen Smith.

J. R. Villarreal

J.R. Villarreal (born 1992, Houston, Texas) is an American actor known for Javier in Akeelah and the Bee, Black Scorpion in Disney's Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion, Manuel in Landman, and Azul Ramos in Dutton Ranch.

J. Randall Curtis

J. Randall Curtis, known as Randy Curtis, was an American pulmonary and critical care physician at the University of Washington who improved end-of-life care in ICUs.

J. Randall Jokipii

J. Randall Jokipii, born Jack Randolph Jokipii (1939–2022), was an American space physicist at the University of Arizona known for his theory of cosmic-ray transport in the heliosphere.

J. Randolph Paulling

J. Randolph Paulling was a professor of naval architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, whose 1959 analysis of unstable ship motions founded the study of parametric rolling.

J. Richard Baringer

J. Richard Baringer was an American neurologist who showed herpes simplex virus persists in human sensory ganglia, and chaired neurology at the University of Utah.

J. Richard Bond

J. Richard Bond, born John Richard Bond in 1950, is a Canadian theoretical cosmologist at the University of Toronto who won the 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.

J. Richard Fisher

J. Richard Fisher is an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory who co-discovered the Tully–Fisher relation with R. Brent Tully in 1977, a key method for measuring galaxy distances.

Sep 20, 2026

J. Richard McIntosh

J. Richard McIntosh is an American cell biologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for showing that microtubule disassembly powers chromosome movement.

J. Richardson Consultants

J. Richardson Consultants was the Houston consulting firm of Joseph G. Richardson (1923–2007), an American petroleum reservoir engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer, born Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), was an American theoretical physicist who led development of the first atomic bombs as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory.

J. Robin Warren

J. Robin Warren (1937–2024) was an Australian pathologist who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize with Barry Marshall for discovering Helicobacter pylori and its role in ulcers.

J. Roger Bray

J. Roger Bray, also known as John Roger Bray, was an American-born ecologist who spent his career in the United States and New Zealand and introduced the widely used Bray–Curtis dissimilarity in 1957.

J. Ross Mackay

J. Ross Mackay (John Ross Mackay, 1915–2014) was a Canadian geographer at the University of British Columbia, Canada's pre-eminent Arctic scientist and a world authority on permafrost.

J. Roswell Gallagher

J. Roswell Gallagher is the American pediatrician called the father of adolescent medicine, who led the first US adolescent clinic at Boston Children's Hospital from 1952 to 1967.

Sep 19, 2026

J. Roy Allen

J. Roy Allen was a New York businessman who, with Edward J. Noble, bought the Life Savers candy business in 1913 and formed the Mint Products Company.

J. S. E. Townsend

J. S. E. Townsend, born John Sealy Edward Townsend in Galway, Ireland, was an Irish physicist who held the Wykeham Professorship of Experimental Physics at Oxford from 1900 to 1941.

J. Sai Deepak

J. Sai Deepak is an Indian arguing counsel before the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court, known for the Sabarimala and marital rape exception cases and for authoring the Bharat Trilogy book India, That Is Bharat.

J. Sanford Schwartz

J. Sanford Schwartz, known as Sandy Schwartz, was an American physician and health services researcher who held a chaired professorship at the University of Pennsylvania.

J. Silvio Gutkind

J. Silvio Gutkind is a cancer-signaling biologist who chairs Pharmacology at UC San Diego and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

J. Smith-Cameron

J. Smith-Cameron (Jean Isabel Smith, born 1957, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American stage and screen actress, Obie and Tony-nominated, best known as Gerri Kellman on HBO's Succession, with Emmy nominations in 2022 and 2023 and SAG ensemble wins in 2022 and 2024.

Sep 27, 2026

J. Stuart Adams

J. Stuart Adams is an American Republican politician and President of the Utah State Senate, representing District 7 after service in the Utah House and Layton City Council.

J. Swanson Beck

J. Swanson Beck, full name John Swanson Beck (1928–2007), was a Scottish immunopathologist who pioneered antinuclear antibody testing and was Professor of Pathology at Dundee from 1971 to 1993.

J. Sydney Stillman

J. Sydney Stillman, full name James Sydney Stillman (1908–1998), was an American rheumatologist at Harvard Medical School who built the first US multidisciplinary center for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

J. T. Barrett

J.T. Barrett (Joe Thomas Barrett IV, born 1995) is the Chicago Bears quarterbacks coach and former Ohio State quarterback (2014-17) who set 39 school and Big Ten records, won the 2014 national title, and later coached the Lions.

J. T. Miller

J.T. Miller (born 1993, East Palestine, Ohio) is an American NHL center, 2011 first-round pick (15th overall) of the Rangers, former Canucks scoring leader (103 points in 2023-24), traded back to New York in January 2025 and named the Rangers' 29th captain in September 2025.