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Jawami al-Hikayat
Jawami al-Hikayat (جوامع الحکایات) is a large 13th-century Persian collection of prose anecdotes compiled by Sadid al-Din Muhammad Awfi, finished about 1232-33 and counted among the era's most important Persian prose works.
Jawan (जवान) (film)
Jawan (जवान) is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language action thriller directed by Atlee, starring Shah Rukh Khan in a dual role as a vigilante; it became one of the highest-grossing Indian films.
Jawani Phir Nahi Ani
Jawani Phir Nahi Ani (جوانی پھر نہیں آنی) is a 2015 Pakistani Urdu comedy directed by Nadeem Baig, written by Vasay Chaudhry, starring Humayun Saeed; a Bangkok-trip hit that was Pakistan's highest-grossing film until its 2018 sequel.
Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2 (جوانی پھر نہیں آنی 2)
Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2 (جوانی پھر نہیں آنی 2, JPNA 2) is a 2018 Pakistani Urdu romantic comedy, sequel to Jawani Phir Nahi Ani, directed by Nadeem Baig, written by Vasay Chaudhry, starring Humayun Saeed and Fahad Mustafa, and the highest-grossing Pakistani film at its release.
Jawbreaker (band)
Jawbreaker: American punk rock trio of Blake Schwarzenbach, Chris Bauermeister, and Adam Pfahler, formed at NYU in the late 1980s; albums Unfun through Dear You (1995), 1996 breakup, 2017 Riot Fest reunion.
Jawbreaker (film)
Jawbreaker (1999) is Darren Stein's satirical black comedy for TriStar Pictures, starring Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, Judy Greer, and Pam Grier; a prank kills Liz Purr, and the clique covers it up. It flopped theatrically ($3.1M gross) but became a cult classic on VHS.
Jawdhar
Jawdhar (جودر), known as al-Ustadh Jawdhar al-Saqlabi, was a Slavic eunuch slave who rose to become chamberlain and de facto chief minister of the Fatimid caliphate.
Jawed Karim
Jawed Karim (জাভেদ করিম), born 1979, is a German-born American software engineer who co-founded YouTube with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen in 2005 and uploaded its first video.
Jawed Sheikh
Jawed Sheikh (Javed Sheikh, Sheikh Jawed Iqbal, b. 1954, Rawalpindi) is a Pakistani actor, director and producer of over 100 films, known for Om Shanti Om, Na Maloom Afraad and three Nigar Awards.
Jawhar al-Siqilli
Jawhar al-Siqilli (جوهر الصقلي) was a Fatimid general and administrator who conquered Egypt, founded the city of Cairo on the night of its conquest, and built the al-Azhar mosque; he died in 992.
Jawny
Jawny, the stage name of Jacob Sullenger, is an American bedroom pop and indie pop singer-songwriter from California, known for his viral 2019 single "Honeypie".
Jaworzno power station
The Jaworzno power station is a hard coal fired power plant in Jaworzno, southern Poland, operated by TAURON Wytwarzanie, with a combined capacity of 1,534 MWe across three plants.
Jaws (film)
Jaws is a 1975 thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, based on a novel by Peter Benchley. The film depicts a great white shark attacking Amity Island.
Jaws (franchise)
Jaws franchise: Universal Pictures series from Steven Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster Jaws and sequels Jaws 2 (1978), Jaws 3-D (1983), and Jaws: The Revenge (1987); first $100 million film, three Oscars, summer blockbuster template.
Jaws (James Bond)
Jaws is the steel-toothed henchman of the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), played by the 7 ft 2 in Richard Kiel; he serves Stromberg then Drax and defects to help Bond.
Jaws (novel)
Jaws is Peter Benchley's 1974 thriller novel about a great white shark attacking the Long Island resort town of Amity; a 20-million-copy bestseller whose affair and mafia subplots were cut from Spielberg's 1975 film.
JAWS (screen reader)
JAWS (Job Access With Speech) is a screen reader for Windows, made by Freedom Scientific, that reads the screen aloud or on a braille display.
Jaws 2
Jaws 2 is a 1978 American horror-thriller sequel directed by Jeannot Szwarc, in which Chief Martin Brody confronts a second shark attacking teenagers on sailboats off Amity.
Jaws 3-D
Jaws 3-D, also released as Jaws III, is a 1983 American horror thriller directed by Joe Alves, the third film in the Jaws series, set at SeaWorld.
Jaws: The Revenge
Jaws: The Revenge (1987), the fourth Jaws film, directed by Joseph Sargent, stars Lorraine Gary as Ellen Brody, targeted by a vengeful great white. A critical disaster: 2% on Rotten Tomatoes, six Razzie nominations.
Jax (Mortal Kombat)
Jax (Major Jackson Briggs) is a Mortal Kombat fighting game character, a Special Forces major debuting in Mortal Kombat II (1993), known for metal arms, daughter Jacqui Briggs, and film portrayals by Mehcad Brooks.
Jax (singer)
Jax (Jaclyn Cole Miskanic, born 1996) is an American pop singer-songwriter from New York, an American Idol season 14 third-place finisher known for TikTok parodies, "Victoria's Secret", and the 2024 debut album Dear Joe,.
Jax Forrest
Jax Forrest (Jaxen Patrick Forrest, born 2006), American freestyle wrestler: 2025 U23 world champion at 61 kg, 2026 NCAA champion at 133 lb for Oklahoma State as an undefeated true freshman, 2022 U17 world silver medalist.
Jax Jones
Jax Jones (Timucin Fabian Kwong Wah Aluo, born 1987) is a London DJ and producer behind UK hits I Got U, You Don't Know Me, Instruction and Breathe, the album Snacks (Supersize), and the Europa duo with Martin Solveig.
Jax Slayher
Jax Slayher (Jonte' Damone Bumpus, born 1988, Miami) is an American adult film performer and director active since 2013, known for Blacked, Blacked Raw, and his self-produced JaxSlayher series; 2018 AVN Best Male Newcomer nominee.
Jax Taylor
Jax Taylor, born Jason Michael Cauchi, is an American reality TV personality from Vanderpump Rules (2013-2020) and its spin-off The Valley, husband of Brittany Cartwright, father of Cruz, and owner of Jax's Studio City bar.
Jax Teller
Jax Teller (Jackson Teller), played by Charlie Hunnam, is the protagonist of FX's Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014): vice president then president of SAMCRO in Charming, California, a Hamlet-inspired antihero shaped by his father John Teller's manuscript, who dies in the series finale.
JAX-MD
JAX-MD is an open-source Python library for differentiable, hardware-accelerated molecular dynamics built on the JAX framework, created by Google Research and presented at NeurIPS 2020.
JAXA
JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (宇宙航空研究開発機構), is Japan's national space agency, established in 2003 by merging NASDA, ISAS, and NAL; it operates the Kibo ISS laboratory and the Hayabusa asteroid sample-return missions.
Jaxon Cover
Jaxon Cover (born 2008) is a Canadian-Caymanian hockey prospect with the London Knights who became the first Cayman Islands native drafted by an NHL team, selected 32nd overall by the Ottawa Senators in 2026.