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Janjaweed (جنجويد)
Janjaweed (جنجويد), Arab tribal militias from Darfur, Sudan, active since the 1980s and used by the government as proxy fighters from 2003; institutional descendants include the Rapid Support Forces, now a belligerent in Sudan's civil war.
Janka hardness test
The Janka hardness test, also known as the Janka scale, measures wood's resistance to denting by recording the force needed to press a steel ball halfway into the wood.
Janko groups
The Janko groups J₁, J₂, J₃, and J₄ are four of the 26 sporadic finite simple groups, named after mathematician Zvonimir Janko, who found them between 1964 and 1975.
Janko Kráľ
Janko Kráľ was a Slovak Romantic poet of the Štúr generation, born in 1822, best known for the ballad Zakliata panna vo Váhu a divný Janko of 1844.
Janko Vukotić
Janko Vukotić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јанко Вукотић) was a Montenegrin serdar, general, and statesman who served as prime minister of Montenegro from 1913 to 1916.
Jankoji Scindia
Jankoji Scindia (जानकोजी शिंदे) was chief of the Scindia house of the Maratha empire from 1755 until his death after the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761.
Janmadine
Janmadine (জন্মদিনে, "On the Birthday") is a Bengali poetry collection of 29 poems by Rabindranath Tagore, written in 1941 and the last published in his lifetime.
Jann Arden
Jann Arden, Canadian singer-songwriter from Calgary, Alberta, born 1962; 16 albums, 19 top-ten singles, "Insensitive"; 8 Junos, Order of Canada, sitcom JANN, author of six books.
Jann Mardenborough
Jann Mardenborough (born 1991, Darlington, England) is a British racing driver who turned winning the 2011 GT Academy into a professional career, with a Le Mans podium and the 2023 film Gran Turismo.
Jann Wenner
Jann Wenner (born 1946), American magazine publisher who co-founded Rolling Stone in 1967 with Ralph J. Gleason and co-founded the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation; removed from its board in 2023 after comments on Black and female artists.
Janna
Janna (ಜಣ್ಣ) was a Kannada Jain poet, minister, and soldier at the Hoysala court of Vira Ballala II, who titled him "Emperor among poets"; his works include the Yashodhara Charite (1209) and Anantanatha Purana (1230).
Janna Levin
Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist, the Claire Tow Professor at Barnard College, and author of Black Hole Blues, an account of the campaign to detect gravitational waves.
Jannah (جنّة)
Jannah (جنّة, Arabic for "garden"), also called Al-Janna, is the Islamic name for paradise, the garden of the hereafter God prepares for the righteous, described in the Qur'an as gardens with rivers and a hundred levels.
Jannat (जन्नत) (2008 film)
Jannat (जन्नत), also Jannat: In Search of Heaven, is a 2008 Hindi crime romance directed by Kunal Deshmukh, starring Emraan Hashmi and Sonal Chauhan, about a gambler turned cricket match fixer; a Super Hit earning 30.10 crore net in India.
Jannat 2 (जन्नत 2)
Jannat 2 (जन्नत 2), aka Heaven 2, is a 2012 Hindi crime thriller directed by Kunal Deshmukh, starring Emraan Hashmi as Delhi gun dealer Sonu Dilli forced to inform for Randeep Hooda's cop; sequel in name only to Jannat (2008), with music by Pritam.
Jannat Zubair Rahmani (जन्नत ज़ुबैर रहमानी)
Jannat Zubair Rahmani (जन्नत ज़ुबैर रहमानी, born 2001, Mumbai) is an Indian film and television actress and digital creator, known for Phulwa (2011), Tu Aashiqui (2017–18), Hichki, Kulche Chole, and about 50 million Instagram followers.
Jannayak Janta Party (जननायक जनता पार्टी)
Jannayak Janta Party (जननायक जनता पार्टी, JJP), a Haryana regional party founded December 9, 2018 by Dushyant Chautala after splitting from the INLD; symbol Key; won 10 seats in 2019, governed with the BJP until March 2024, then won zero seats in 2024.
Janne Gustafsson
Janne Gustafsson (Johan August Gustafsson, 1883–1942) was a Swedish rifle shooter from Stora Skedvi, Dalarna, who won silver in the team free rifle and placed fifth individually at the 1908 London Olympics.
Janne Kolling
Janne Kolling (born 1968, Aarhus) is a retired Danish handball right wing. Two Olympic golds (1996, 2000), World champion 1997, European champion 1994 and 1996; record 250 caps and 756 goals for Denmark.
Janne Lahtela
Janne Lahtela (born 1974, Kemijärvi), Finnish freestyle moguls skier; 2002 Olympic champion and 1998 silver medalist, 1999 world champion, 23 World Cup wins; later head coach of Japanese and Finnish teams.
Janne Lundblad
Janne Lundblad (1877–1940), Swedish dressage rider and army captain; won individual dressage gold on Uno at Antwerp 1920 and team silver on Blackmar at Amsterdam 1928; also fourth individually in 1928.
Janne Stefansson
Janne Stefansson (born 1935), Swedish cross-country skier, full name Janne Reidar Stefansson. Olympic gold in the 4x10 km relay at Innsbruck 1964; seven-time Vasaloppet winner (1962-69), second only to Nils Karlsson.
Janneke Schopman
Janneke Schopman (born 1977, Haarlem) is a Dutch field hockey coach and former defender, 212 caps, Olympic gold 2008 and World Cup 2006 with the Netherlands; head coach of the USA, India, and Germany women's teams.
Jannero Pargo
Jannero Pargo (born 1979, Chicago) is a former NBA guard, 499 games over 11 seasons, and current Indiana Pacers player development assistant coach; brother of Jeremy Pargo.
Janney coupler
The Janney coupler, also known as the knuckle coupler, is the automatic railroad coupler patented by Eli H. Janney of Virginia in 1873, letting cars couple on impact without a worker between them.
Jannick Green Krejberg
Jannick Green Krejberg (Jannick Green), Danish handball goalkeeper born 1988 in Lemvig. Olympic gold 2016, World champion 2019; clubs Lemvig, Aalborg, Bjerringbro-Silkeborg, SC Magdeburg, PSG.
Jannie Borst
Jannie Borst, born 1957, is a Dutch immunologist known for work on the T-cell receptor complex and costimulatory signals relevant to cancer immunotherapy, leading immunology divisions at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Leiden University.
Jannie Mouton
Jannie Mouton is a South African billionaire businessman based in Stellenbosch who founded PSG Group in 1995 after being fired at 48, and co-founded Capitec Bank.
Jannik Bjerrum
Jannik Bjerrum (1909–1992) was a Danish chemist at the University of Copenhagen whose formation function made stepwise complex formation measurable; his 1941 monograph Metal Ammine Formation in Aqueous Solution became a classic.
Jannik Meyer
Jannik Meyer, also known as Jannik C. Meyer, is a German physicist who studies two-dimensional materials by atomic-resolution electron microscopy and has been a professor at Tübingen since 2018.