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Jarndyce and Jarndyce
Jarndyce and Jarndyce (Jarndyce v Jarndyce) is the fictional endless Court of Chancery inheritance suit in Dickens's Bleak House (1852–53), often linked to the Jennens Case and Thellusson v Woodford, ending when costs devour the estate.
Jarno Opmeer
Jarno Opmeer (born 2000, Dordrecht) is a Dutch sim racer for Red Bull Sim Racing and three-time F1 Esports/Sim Racing world champion (2020, 2021, 2025), a former Renault junior and SMP F4 runner-up.
Jarno Trulli
Jarno Trulli (born 1974, Pescara) is a retired Italian F1 driver, 1997-2011, for Minardi, Prost, Jordan, Renault, Toyota, and Lotus; won Monaco 2004 from pole, 11 podiums, 4 poles, famed one-lap qualifier.
Jaro-Balakan
Jaro-Balakan, also written Jar-Balakan or Djaro-Belokan, was a union of self-governing mountain communities in the Alazan valley of northwestern Azerbaijan, incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1803.
Jarobi White
Jarobi White (born 1971) is an American chef and founding member of A Tribe Called Quest, host on the 1990 debut, evitaN member with Dres, and participant in the 2016 final album and 2024 Hall of Fame induction.
Jarold A. Meyer
Jarold A. Meyer is an American chemical engineer who led Chevron Research and Technology Company and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Jarome Iginla
Jarome Iginla, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (born 1977), Calgary Flames all-time leader in goals, points, and games; 625 NHL goals, Art Ross and two Rocket Richard trophies, Olympic gold 2002 and 2010, inducted 2020.
Jaromír Funke
Jaromír Funke (1896–1945) was a Czech photographer, critic, and teacher regarded as a leading figure of the inter-war European avant-garde, known for abstract still lifes and photograms.
Jaromír Jágr
Jaromír Jágr (born 1972, Kladno) is a Czech hockey right winger, second in NHL career points (1,921) behind Gretzky, two-time Stanley Cup winner, 1998 Olympic champion, and Rytíři Kladno owner-player who played into his 50s.
Jaromír Korčák
Jaromír Korčák (1895–1989) was a Czech demographer, geographer, and statistician who taught at Charles University in Prague, published about 250 works, and trained the scholars who carried Czechoslovak demography forward.
Jaromír Zůna
Jaromír Zůna, born in 1960, is a Czech politician and retired lieutenant general serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, nominated by the SPD movement.
Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier is an American computer scientist, composer, and writer who pioneered virtual reality in the 1980s, founded VPL Research, and joined Microsoft Research in 2006.
Jaron Pierre Jr.
Jaron Pierre Jr. (born 2002, New Orleans) is an NBA guard for the New Orleans Pelicans, drafted 58th overall in 2026; two-way contract; former Conference USA Player of the Year at Jacksonville State, later SMU.
Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele
Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele is an American college football quarterback for the California Golden Bears, a left-handed passer from Ewa Beach, Hawaii, who started as a true freshman in 2025.
Jarosite
Jarosite is a potassium iron sulfate hydroxide mineral, KFe₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆, that forms in acidic, oxidizing environments; on Mars it was found by the Opportunity rover in 2004, evidence of past water.
Jaroslav Hašek
Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923) was a Czech writer, journalist, and humorist whose unfinished satirical novel The Good Soldier Švejk, published 1921–1923, became the most translated book of Czech literature, appearing in 54 languages by 1994.
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist who founded polarography, an electrochemical analysis method using the dropping mercury electrode, and received the 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone.
Jaroslav Kožešník
Jaroslav Kožešník (1907–1985) was a Czech engineer and applied mathematician who led the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences from 1970 and founded its cybernetics institute, ÚTIA.
Jaroslav Kulhavy
Jaroslav Kulhavý (Jaroslav Kulhavy), Czech cross-country mountain biker born 1985 in Ústí nad Orlicí; 2012 Olympic gold and 2016 silver, 2011 world champion and World Cup winner, three Cape Epic wins; retired 2022, then Xterra triathlon.
Jaroslav Kurzweil
Jaroslav Kurzweil, born in Prague in 1926, was a Czech mathematician whose 1957 Riemann-type definition of the gauge integral, the Kurzweil–Henstock integral, generalized the Lebesgue integral.
Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert was a Czech poet and journalist who won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Czech to receive it. A Charter 77 signatory, he wrote nearly thirty volumes of poetry over six decades.
Jaroslav Skobla
Jaroslav Skobla (1899–1959), Czechoslovak weightlifter, 1932 Olympic heavyweight gold medalist (380 kg) and 1928 bronze medalist, also 1923 world light-heavyweight champion; father of shot putter Jiří Skobla.
Jaroslav Spacek
Jaroslav Špaček (Jaroslav Spacek), Czech defenseman born 1974 in Rokycany; 880 NHL games 1998-2012, Nagano 1998 Olympic gold, three World Championship golds, later Czech national-team assistant coach and father of David Spacek.
Jaroslav Strnad
Jaroslav Strnad is a Czech arms-industry businessman who founded Excalibur Army in 1995, built Czechoslovak Group, and took over the Tatra truck works in 2013.
Jaroslav Vrchlický
Jaroslav Vrchlický, born Emil Frída, was a Czech poet, dramatist, and translator who published about 270 books, including more than 80 poetry collections, and died in 1912.
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz was a Polish poet, prose writer, and playwright, co-founder of the Skamander group and one of the eminent Polish writers of the 20th century.
Jarosław Kaczyński
Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish politician, co-founder and longtime leader of Law and Justice (PiS), twin brother of President Lech Kaczyński; prime minister 2006–2007, deputy prime minister 2020–2022, and de facto leader of PiS governments 2015–2023.
Jaroslaw Kutylowski
Jaroslaw "Jarek" Kutylowski is a Polish-born, Germany-raised computer scientist who founded the machine-translation company DeepL in Cologne in 2017 and has been its chief executive since 2019.
Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski
Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski is an American hematologist-oncologist who chairs Translational Hematology and Oncology Research at Cleveland Clinic's Taussig Cancer Institute, known for bone marrow failure research.
Jarquduq Oil and Gas Field
Jarquduq Oil and Gas Field (Джаркудук), also written Dzharkuduk, is an onshore gas and gas-condensate field in southern Uzbekistan's Kashkadarya region, operated by LUKOIL since first gas in December 2011.