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Jayadevi
Jayadevi was a queen regnant of pre-Angkorian Chenla, daughter of King Jayavarman I, who ruled the Angkor region from around 681 to at least 713 CE.
Jayadrath Vadh
Jayadrath Vadh (जयद्रथ-वध) is a 1910 Hindi khandkavya, or short epic, by Maithili Sharan Gupt that retells Abhimanyu's death in the chakravyuh and Arjuna's slaying of Jayadrath.
Jayadratha (जयद्रथ)
Jayadratha (जयद्रथ) is the Mahabharata king of Sindhu and Sauvira, a Kaurava ally whose Rudra-granted stand caused Abhimanyu's death and whose slaying by Arjuna before sunset is told in the Jayadratha-vadha Parva.
Jayajirao Scindia
Jayajirao Scindia (जयाजीराव शिंदे), born Bhagirath Rao, was Maharaja of Gwalior from 1843 to 1886; he sided with the British in 1857 and later financed railways.
Jayakanthan (ஜெயகாந்தன்)
Jayakanthan (ஜெயகாந்தன்), also JK, Dhandapani Jayakanthan, 1934-2015, Tamil writer from Cuddalore raised in the Communist Party of India; wrote about 40 novels and 200 short stories, won the 1972 Sahitya Akademi Award and 2002 Jnanpith Award.
Jayakatwang
Jayakatwang, also written Jayakatong, was a Javanese vassal ruler at Gelanggelang, near Madiun, who killed his overlord Kertanagara of Singhasari in 1292 and restored Kadiri.
Jayakrishna Ambati
Jayakrishna Ambati is an ophthalmologist and vision scientist, DuPont Guerry III Professor at the University of Virginia, known for research on dry age-related macular degeneration.
Jayakumar Jitendrasinh Rawal
Jayakumar Jitendrasinh Rawal is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and Government of Maharashtra minister for Agro-Marketing and Protocol, elected five consecutive times from the Sindkheda constituency since 2004.
Jayakwadi Dam
Jayakwadi Dam, also known as Jaikwadi or Nath Sagar Dam, is a major dam on the Godavari at Paithan, Maharashtra, the state's largest irrigation project, completed in 1976.
Jayam (ஜெயம்) (2003 film)
Jayam (ஜெயம்) is a 2003 Tamil romantic action film directed by M. Raja. It stars Ravi and Sadha in their Tamil debuts, featuring Gopichand as the antagonist.
Jayam (జయం) (2002 film)
Jayam (జయం) is a 2002 Telugu romantic action drama written, produced, and directed by Teja under Chitram Movies, starring Nithiin, Sada, and Gopichand. Released 14 June 2002 with R. P. Patnaik's music, it debuted Nithiin and Sada, earned a 15.16 crore share, and was remade in Tamil as Jayam Ravi's debut.
Jayamalini
Jayamalini (Telugu: జయమాలిని; born 1958), birth name Alivelu Manga, is an Indian actress and dancer, sister of Jyothi Lakshmi, known for over 500 South Indian films and item numbers from 1975 to the late 1980s, debuting in Annadammula Anubandham (1975).
Jayamkondar
Jayamkondar (ஜயங்கொண்டார்) was a 12th-century Tamil court poet who served the Chola emperor Kulottunga I and composed the Kalingattupparani, the earliest surviving Parani war poem.
Jayan (ജയൻ)
Jayan (ജയൻ), born M. Krishnan Nair (1939-1980), was an Indian Navy veteran turned Malayalam film star, acclaimed as Malayalam cinema's first action hero; he died in a 1980 helicopter stunt accident filming Kolilakkam in Madras.
Jayanaka
Jayanaka (जयानक) was a Sanskrit poet from Kashmir who served at the court of Prithviraj Chauhan of Ajmer in the late twelfth century and composed the Prithviraja Vijaya, the only surviving text from the king's reign.
Jayanasa
Jayanasa, known in full as Dapunta Hyang Sri Jayanasa, was the founder and first king of Srivijaya, a kingdom centered at Palembang in southeast Sumatra in the late 7th century.
Jayanegara
Jayanegara was the second monarch of the Majapahit kingdom in eastern Java, reigning from 1309 to 1328 as the son and successor of the founder Raden Wijaya.
Jayant (ज़कारिया ख़ान) (actor)
Jayant (ज़कारिया ख़ान), born Zakaria Khan (1915–1975), was a Hindi film actor from Peshawar who rose from Prakash Pictures leading man to character actor, and father of Sholay villain Amjad Khan.
Jayant Chaudhary
Jayant Chaudhary is an Indian politician of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, a Union minister of state for skill development and education, and a member of the Rajya Sabha.
Jayant Coal Mine
Jayant Coal Mine, also called the Jayant Opencast Project, is one of India's largest opencast coal mines, operated by Northern Coalfields Limited in Madhya Pradesh since 1977.
Jayant Narlikar
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (1938–2025) was an Indian astrophysicist and cosmologist who co-developed the Hoyle–Narlikar theory of gravitation, proposed the quasi-steady state cosmology, and founded IUCAA in Pune.
Jayant Singh (जयंत सिंह)
Jayant Singh (Jayant Chaudhary), born 1978, is president of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, grandson of Charan Singh and son of Ajit Singh; RLD chief who left the INDIA bloc for the NDA in February 2024 and is India's Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship since June 2024.
Jayant Sinha (जयंत सिन्हा)
Jayant Sinha (जयंत सिन्हा), Indian BJP politician, son of Yashwant Sinha; two-term Hazaribagh MP, Minister of State for Finance and Civil Aviation 2014-2019, Standing Committee on Finance chair, now Eversource Capital president.
Jayanta Bhatta
Jayanta Bhatta (जयन्त भट्ट) was a ninth-century Kashmirian philosopher, poet, and playwright of the Nyaya tradition who served as adviser to King Sankaravarman and wrote the Nyayamanjari and the Agamadambara.
Jayanta Chaudhuri
Jayanta Chaudhuri is an immunologist and Principal Investigator at the Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he studies how the enzyme AID diversifies antibody genes.
Jayanta Debnath
Jayanta Debnath is an American cancer biologist and pathologist who chairs pathology at UCSF, where his laboratory studies autophagy as a survival mechanism in cancer.
Jayanta Kumar Roy
Jayanta Kumar Roy, born 1968, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and physician who has represented Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, in the Lok Sabha since 2019.
Jayanta Mahapatra
Jayanta Mahapatra was an Indian poet who wrote in English and Odia, taught physics in Odisha, and in 1981 won the first Sahitya Akademi Award for English poetry.
Jayanta Malla Baruah
Jayanta Malla Baruah is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Assam's finance minister, holding the Finance, Environment and Forest, and Mines and Minerals portfolios since 2026.
Jayanth R. Banavar
Jayanth R. Banavar is an Indian-born American theoretical physicist known for work on metabolic scaling, river networks, and protein geometry, and coauthor of a 1999 Nature paper on quarter-power scaling.