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Jabari Small
Jabari Mikal Small, Tennessee Volunteers running back (2020-23), 2,122 rushing yards, 24 TDs; 2024 undrafted free agent with Titans, later Detroit Lions.
Jabari Smith
Jabari Smith Jr. (born 2003) is an NBA forward for the Houston Rockets, drafted third overall in 2022 from Auburn; National Freshman of the Year, All-Rookie Second Team, son of Jabari Smith Sr.
Jabari Smith Jr.
Jabari Smith Jr. (born 2003), NBA power forward for the Houston Rockets, third pick of the 2022 draft after one Auburn season; All-Rookie Second Team, .519 career true shooting, five-year $122 million extension signed July 2025.
Jabariya Jodi
Jabariya Jodi (जबरिया जोड़ी) is a 2019 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Prashant Singh, starring Sidharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra, about groom kidnapping (pakadua shaadi) in Bihar; released 9 August 2019, it flopped with ₹25.24 crore worldwide gross.
Jabba the Hutt
Jabba the Hutt is the fictional slug-like Star Wars crime lord of Tatooine, first mentioned in 1977, appearing as a puppet in Return of the Jedi (1983), father of Rotta, nephew of Ziro, killed by Leia at age 604.
Jabbar Muhammad
Jabbar Muhammad (born 2001) is an NFL cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars, an undrafted 2025 free agent from Oregon who previously played at Oklahoma State and Washington, earning All-Pac-12 and All-Big Ten honors.
Jabbawockeez
Jabbawockeez, an American hip-hop dance crew founded in San Diego in 2003 by Kevin Brewer and Joe Larot, won the first season of MTV's America's Best Dance Crew in 2008 and became the first dance crew to headline a Las Vegas show.
Jabberjaw
Jabberjaw is a 1976 American animated television series by Hanna-Barbera, airing on ABC, about a talking great white shark who plays drums in the teenage rock band The Neptunes.
Jabberwocky
Jabberwocky, also "Jabberwock" poem, is Lewis Carroll's famous nonsense verse in Through the Looking-Glass (1871), known for portmanteau words like chortle and galumph, the vorpal blade, and its many translations.
Jabberwocky (1977 film)
Jabberwocky (1977), also released in the US as Monty Python's Jabberwocky, is Terry Gilliam's first solo-directed feature, a British medieval comedy fantasy starring Michael Palin as reluctant hero Dennis Cooper, loosely based on Lewis Carroll's poem.
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (جابر الأحمد الجابر الصباح)
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (جابر الأحمد الجابر الصباح), 13th ruler of Kuwait and 3rd amir since independence, reigned 1977-2006; earlier Kuwait's first finance minister; ruled through the Iran-Iraq war and the 1990 Iraqi invasion.
Jabesh-Gilead
Jabesh-Gilead (Hebrew Yavesh Gil'ad, 'dry place of Gilead') was a city in northern Transjordan, east of the Jordan. Known for Saul's rescue from Nahash the Ammonite and its burial of Saul; site identification debated between Tell Abu al-Kharaz and Tell al-Maqlub.
Jabil
Jabil Inc. is an American engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions company headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. Founded in 1966, it builds products for companies in healthcare, automotive, and AI data center infrastructure.
Jabiluka
Jabiluka is an undeveloped uranium deposit in the Northern Territory of Australia, entirely surrounded by Kakadu National Park; its mineral lease was refused renewal in 2024.
Jabir ibn Hayyan
Jabir ibn Hayyan (جابر بن حیان), known in the Latin West as Geber, is the alchemist traditionally credited as the father of Arabic alchemy, active in Baghdad around 721 to 815.
Jabir ibn Samura
Jabir ibn Samura (جابر بن سمرة) was a younger companion of Muhammad who settled in Kufa and became a prolific hadith narrator, best known for the report of twelve rulers from Quraysh.
Jabir ibn Utayk
Jabr ibn Atik (جبر بن عتيك) was a companion of Muhammad from the Aws tribe of Medina, remembered as a hadith transmitter who died in 681.
Jabir ibn Zayd
Jabir ibn Zayd (جابر بن زيد) was a jurist and hadith scholar in Basra under the Umayyad caliphate, regarded by the Ibadi school of Islam as its founding imam.
Jablonec
Jablonec (FK Jablonec) is a Czech professional football club from Jablonec nad Nisou, founded 1945, playing in the Chance Liga; Czech Cup winner 1998 and 2013, Super Cup 2013, home at Stadion Střelnice.
Jabo Waggoner
Jabo Waggoner, born James Thomas Waggoner, is a Republican member of the Alabama Senate, first elected in 1990 after serving in the Alabama House from 1966 to 1983.
Jaboatão dos Guararapes
Jaboatão dos Guararapes, a coastal Pernambuco municipality in the Recife Metropolitan Region, Brazil; founded 1593 as Jaboatão, renamed 1989; site of the 1648 and 1649 Battles of Guararapes; second most populous city of Pernambuco.
Jabodebek LRT
Jabodebek LRT, or LRT Jabodebek, is a driverless light rail system connecting Jakarta with Depok and Bekasi in Indonesia, opened in 2023 and operated by Kereta Api Indonesia.
Jabong.com
Jabong.com was an Indian online fashion e-commerce site launched in 2012 under Rocket Internet, which grew to about $500 million valuation before Myntra/Flipkart bought it in 2016 for $70 million and shut it in 2020.
Jaboukie Young-White
Jaboukie Young-White (born 1994), also known mononymously as Jaboukie, is an American comedian, actor, and writer from Harvey, Illinois; Daily Show correspondent 2018-2021, writer on Big Mouth, and Interscope debut album All who can't hear must feel (2023).
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1919 to 1994) was a Palestinian novelist, poet, painter, and translator who settled in Baghdad, wrote novels of Palestinian exile, and translated Shakespeare into Arabic.
Jabrill Peppers
Jabrill Peppers is an American professional football safety known for his versatility, a 2016 Heisman finalist at Michigan who was drafted 25th overall by the Browns in 2017.
Jabriyya
Jabriyya is an early Islamic school of predestination holding that God is the sole cause of every human act, associated with the theologian Jahm ibn Safwan.
Jabu (The Weatherman)
Jabu (The Weatherman), also known as Jabu The Weatherman, is a South African artist on the roster of Ghetto Ruff, an independent South African label known for kwaito.
Jabuti Prize
The Jabuti Prize (Portuguese: Prêmio Jabuti) is an annual Brazilian literary award organized by the Brazilian Book Chamber since 1958, considered Brazil's most prestigious book prize.
Jabuticaba
Jabuticaba (jaboticaba, Brazilian grape tree, Plinia cauliflora) is a slow-growing Myrtaceae fruit tree from Brazil whose dark purple berries and white flowers grow directly on the trunk (cauliflory); grown in zones 9a-11, fruiting in 8-10 years from seed.