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Jass Records

Jass Records is a Punjabi music label and YouTube channel based in Punjab, India, founded by Jasvir Pal Singh and known for artists including R Nait and Gurnam Bhullar.

Jassa Singh Ahluwalia

Jassa Singh Ahluwalia (ਜੱਸਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਅਹਿਲੂਵਾਲੀਆ, 1718–1783) was a Sikh military leader who commanded the Dal Khalsa, took Lahore in 1761 as Sultan-ul-Qaum, and founded Kapurthala State.

Jassa Singh Ramgarhia

Jassa Singh Ramgarhia (ਜੱਸਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਰਾਮਗੜ੍ਹੀਆ), 1723 to 1803, was a Sikh chief of Punjab who led the Ramgarhia misl and in 1783 occupied the Red Fort in Delhi.

Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin (जस्सी जैसी कोई नहीं)

Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin (जस्सी जैसी कोई नहीं) is a Sony TV Hindi comedy-drama (2003–2006, 545 episodes) adapted from Colombia's Yo soy Betty, la fea, starring Mona Singh as plain Jassi and Apurva Agnihotri as Armaan Suri.

Jassi Sidhu

Jassi Sidhu, full name Jaswinder Singh Sidhu, is a British Bhangra singer from Birmingham, England, known as lead vocalist of the band B21 from 1996 to 2002.

Jassie Gift (ജാസി ഗിഫ്റ്റ്)

Jassie Gift (ജാസി ഗിഫ്റ്റ്), born 1975 in Thiruvananthapuram, is an Indian film music composer and playback singer. His 2004 song Lajjavathiye from 4 the People made him famous; he works mainly in Kannada cinema and holds a Kannur University doctorate in philosophy.

Sep 24, 2026

Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani

Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani (جاسم بن محمد آل ثاني) was ruler of Qatar from 1878 to 1913, regarded as the founder of the modern Qatari state.

Jasson Domínguez

Jasson Domínguez, "El Marciano" (The Martian), Dominican-born Yankees switch-hitting outfielder signed 2019 for a record $5.1 million bonus; MLB debut September 1, 2023, hitting four home runs in his first seven games.

Jastorf culture

Jastorf culture (Jastorfkultur), pre-Roman Iron Age archaeological culture of northern central Europe, c. 600 BC to the turn of the era; named by Gustav Schwantes after the urn field at Jastorf, Lower Saxony; predecessor of the Elbe Germanic peoples.

Oct 15, 2026

Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa

Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa (JSW) is a Polish mining company headquartered in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, founded in 1993, that produces coking coal and coke for steelmaking, mainly supplying European steel producers.

Jasujeong Land

Jasujeong Land (자수정동굴나라, Amethyst Cave Land) is a cave theme park in Ulju-gun, Ulsan, South Korea, built in a former amethyst mine tunnel: 2.5 km of passages on two levels, 12-16°C year-round, walking and boat tours, and a Jurassic World dinosaur exhibit.

Jasus edwardsii

Jasus edwardsii, red rock lobster or southern rock lobster (kōura), a spiny lobster of New Zealand and southern Australia; 24-month phyllosoma larva, lecithotrophic puerulus, and NZ's most valuable inshore fishery (NZ$300M exports, 2019).

Sep 27, 2026

Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor

Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Dahod, Gujarat, in the Lok Sabha since 2014 and served as Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs.

Jasveen Sangha

Jasveen Sangha, the "Ketamine Queen" of North Hollywood, is the dual U.S.-British drug dealer who sold Matthew Perry the fatal ketamine dose, pleaded guilty in September 2025, and was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in April 2026.

Jaswant Rajput

Jaswant Singh Rajput (1926-2015), Indian field hockey halfback from Delhi who won gold with India at the 1948 London Olympics, was a non-playing squad member of the 1952 gold team, played for Bhowanipore and Mohun Bagan, and helped win the Beighton Cup.

Jaswant Singh (जसवंत सिंह)

Jaswant Singh (जसवंत सिंह) was an Indian politician, army officer, and author; a leading BJP member over five terms who held finance, external affairs, and defense portfolios.

Jaswant Singh Gill (ਜਸਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਗਿੱਲ)

Jaswant Singh Gill, known as Capsule Gill, was an Indian mining engineer who led the 1989 rescue of 65 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine at Raniganj.

Jaswant Singh II

Jaswant Singh II (जसवंत सिंह द्वितीय) was Maharaja of Jodhpur (Marwar), a princely state in Rajputana, from 1873 to 1895, remembered as the maker of modern Jodhpur.

Oct 22, 2026

Jaswant Singh Kanwal

Jaswant Singh Kanwal (ਜਸਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਕੰਵਲ; 1919–2020) was an Indian Punjabi-language novelist, short story writer, and essayist who wrote about 102 books on rural Punjabi life and won the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Jaswant Singh of Marwar

Jaswant Singh of Marwar (जसवंतसिंह राठौड़) was the Rathore Maharaja of Marwar, ruling Jodhpur from 1638 to 1678 and serving Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb as commander and governor.

Jaswant Singh Rawat

Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat (1941 to 1962) of the Garhwal Rifles was posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra for seizing a Chinese machine gun at Nuranang in the 1962 war.

Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat

Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat is an Indian businesswoman who was one of seven women who founded the Lijjat Papad co-operative in Mumbai in 1959, and received the Padma Shri in 2021.

Jaswinder Bhalla (ਜਸਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੱਲਾ)

Jaswinder Bhalla (ਜਸਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੱਲਾ), Punjabi actor-comedian and PAU extension professor, creator of Chhankata and Chacha Chatar Singh, star of Carry on Jatta and Jatt & Juliet; died 22 August 2025 in Mohali aged 65.

Jaswinder Brar

Jaswinder Brar is a Punjabi folk and duet singer from Punjab, India, born in 1973, billed as the "Folk Queen" and a 2010 Shromani Punjabi Lok Gaaiki Award recipient.

Jaswinder P. Singh

Jaswinder P. Singh, also known as Jaswinder Pal Singh, is an American computer scientist at Princeton University who works on parallel computing and computational biology.

Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok

Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok (Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok vármegye) is a Hungarian county on the Great Plain with seat Szolnok, formed in 1876 from the Jászság, Nagykunság, and Outer-Szolnok; 78 settlements, 346,466 residents (2026).

JAT Flight 367

JAT Flight 367 was a Jugoslovenski Aerotransport flight destroyed by a bomb over Czechoslovakia in 1972, whose flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived the highest fall without a parachute.

Jat Regiment (जाट रेजिमेंट)

Jat Regiment (जाट रेजिमेंट), Indian Army infantry regiment tracing to the 1795 Calcutta Native Militia; formed as IX Jat Regiment in 1922, Bareilly centre, motto Sangathan Va Veerta, famed for Dograi 1965.

Jat Sikh (ਜੱਟ ਸਿੱਖ)

Jat Sikh (ਜੱਟ ਸਿੱਖ), also Jatt Sikh, is the landowning agrarian caste dominant in Punjab's Sikh community: about 25% of the population owning over 90% of farmland, shaped by colonial policy, gurdwara politics, and diaspora.