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Jarett Gandolfo
Jarett Gandolfo is an American Republican politician representing New York's 7th Assembly district since 2020, serving as Assistant Minority Leader Pro Tempore and running for State Senate in 2026.
Jargalant Khairkhan
Jargalant Khairkhan, also known as Dzüün Jirgalanta Nuruu, is a 3,796 m mountain in Khovd Province, Mongolia, a stand-alone massif near the city of Khovd.
Jarghuchi
The jarghuchi (札鲁忽赤) was the judge office of the Mongol Empire, the first office created at the state's founding, later the judicial head of the Yuan Court of the Imperial Clan.
Jargon
Jargon is the specialized vocabulary of a profession, trade, or defined group, also called terminology or shop talk; distinct from slang, argot, and cant. It enables precise in-group communication but excludes outsiders and is often used pejoratively.
Jarhead (film)
Jarhead (2005) is Sam Mendes's war film adapted from Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, and Peter Sarsgaard, notable for depicting a war with almost no combat.
Jari
Jari (Rio Jari), Amazon left-bank tributary in Amapá and Pará, Brazil, about 800–950 km long, 57,000 km² basin; site of Daniel Ludwig's Jari Project cellulose enterprise and Santo Antônio dam.
Jari Askins
Jari Askins is an Oklahoma Democratic politician, lawyer, and judge: Stephens County special judge (1982-1990), Pardon and Parole Board's first female chairman, six-term state representative, Oklahoma's 15th lieutenant governor (2007-2011), and 2010 gubernatorial nominee who lost to Mary Fallin.
Jari Björne
Jari Björne (Jari Bjorne) is a Finnish computer scientist and docent of biomedical data science at the University of Turku, known for the Turku Event Extraction System (TEES).
Jari Litmanen
Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer born 1971, "The King"; 1995 Champions League winner with Ajax, third in 1995 Ballon d'Or; Finland record 137 caps, 32 goals; returned to play at 55 for Tallinna Kalev III.
Jari Mantila
Jari Mantila (Jari Sakari Mantila, born 1971, Kotka) is a Finnish nordic combined athlete, Olympic team gold medalist 2002 and silver medalist 1998, with four World Championship medals and two World Cup wins.
Jari Puikkonen
Jari Puikkonen, nicknamed Janne, is a retired Finnish ski jumper who won one Olympic gold and two bronze medals from 1980 to 1988 and was 1981 ski flying world champion.
Jari Tiihonen
Jari Tiihonen (born 1960) is a Finnish psychiatrist and physician-scientist, professor at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Eastern Finland, known for the 2009 FIN11 register study of antipsychotics in schizophrenia.
Jarigan
Jarigan (জারি গান), also written jari gan, is a Bengali folk performance of sung narrative and dance named from the Persian zari, meaning lamentation, centering on Imam Husayn's martyrdom at Karbala.
Jarina Corona
Jarina Corona is a 250-km-diameter corona on Venus in the Rusalka Planitia quadrangle (V-25) at 13°N, 165°E, IAU-approved in 2003 and named for a Brazilian Earth, tree, and happiness goddess.
Jarir
Jarir (جرير), in full Jarir ibn Atiyya al-Tamimi, was an Arab poet of the Umayyad caliphate, born around 650 in al-Yamama and famed for his naqa'id with al-Farazdaq and al-Akhtal.
Jarir ibn Abdallah al-Bajali
Jarir ibn Abdallah al-Bajali was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad and a commander in the conquest of Iraq who withdrew from the First Fitna and died around 671.
Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction
Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction (JHR), or Herxheimer reaction, an acute febrile inflammatory response within 24 hours of antibiotics for spirochetal infections such as syphilis, Lyme disease, and relapsing fever, mediated by cytokines, self-limited, and not a drug allergy.
Jariyah Shah
Jariyah Shah (Jariyah Zain Shah), born 2009 in Canberra, is an Australian youth midfielder at Manchester United U18, signed from Doncaster Rovers, also eligible for England, Pakistan, and Vietnam.
Jarl Hemmer
Jarl Hemmer (1893–1944) was a Finland-Swedish author and poet, known for the verse epic Rågens rike and the Civil War novel En man och hans samvete.
Jarl Magnus Riiber
Jarl Magnus Riiber (born 1997, Oslo), Norwegian Nordic combined athlete, most successful in the sport's history: 76 World Cup wins, five overall titles, 11 World Championship golds, Olympic team silver; retired 2025 with Crohn's disease.
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (1876–1932) was a Finnish mathematician who spent his career at the University of Helsinki and proved the central limit theorem under the Lindeberg condition.
Jarlath
Jarlath (Iarlaithe) was an Irish bishop and abbot, c. 445 to c. 540, who founded a monastery at Cloonfush and is venerated as patron saint of Tuam.
Jarlsberg cheese
Jarlsberg (Jarlsberg®) is a Norwegian semi-hard cow's-milk cheese with large eyes and a mild, sweet, nutty flavor, developed in 1956 at the Agricultural University of Norway under Professor Ole Martin Ystgaard and made by TINE SA in Norway, the USA, and Ireland.
Jarlskog invariant
The Jarlskog invariant is a quantity in particle physics measuring CP violation in the Standard Model, independent of the parametrization of quark mixing, introduced by Cecilia Jarlskog in 1985.
Jarmann M1884
The Jarmann M1884 was a Norwegian bolt-action repeating rifle designed by Jacob Smith Jarmann and adopted in 1884, firing 10.15 mm cartridges from an 8-round tubular magazine.
Jarmila Kratochvílová
Jarmila Kratochvílová (born 1951), Czechoslovak 400m/800m runner; holds the women's 800m world record 1:53.28 (Munich, 1983), athletics' longest-standing individual record, and won the 1983 Helsinki 400m/800m double.
Jarmila Mullerova
Jarmila Müllerová (Müllerová-Suková), Czechoslovak backstroke swimmer, 1901–1944; set 100 m backstroke world record 1:35.0 in Prague, 29 July 1923, and placed fifth at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Jarmo
Jarmo, locally Charmo, is an early Neolithic tell east of Kirkuk in Iraqi Kurdistan, one of the world's earliest village-farming communities, excavated by Robert Braidwood from 1948.
Jarmuth
Jarmuth (Hebrew Yarmut), a Canaanite city identified as Piram, was a major fortified city-state in the Judean Shephelah. It was abandoned around 2400 BCE, though its acropolis was reoccupied.
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (ਜਰਨੈਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਭਿੰਡਰਾਂਵਾਲੇ)
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (ਜਰਨੈਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਭਿੰਡਰਾਂਵਾਲੇ), born 1947, headed the Damdami Taksal from 1977, was positioned by Congress leaders against the Akali Dal, moved into the Golden Temple in 1982, and died in Operation Blue Star in June 1984.