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Jeddah South power plant

Jeddah South power plant (محطة توليد جنوب جدة) is a 2,640 MW oil-fired power station south of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, owned by Saudi Electricity Company.

Jeddah Superdome

Jeddah Superdome is an indoor multi-purpose arena in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, opened in 2021, holding Guinness records as the world's largest geodesic dome and hosting concerts, boxing, and WWE events.

Jeddah Tower (برج جدة)

Jeddah Tower (برج جدة), formerly Kingdom Tower, is a skyscraper under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, designed to exceed 1,000 meters and become the world's tallest building.

JEDEC

JEDEC, the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, is an independent semiconductor standards body founded in 1958, with over 360 member companies developing open standards for DDR SDRAM, HBM, and flash storage.

Jedediah Purdy

Jedediah S. Purdy (Jedediah Britton-Purdy), American legal scholar, Raphael Lemkin Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke Law after Columbia; author of After Nature, This Land Is Our Land, Two Cheers for Politics; writes on environmental, property, constitutional law.

Jedediah Smith

Jedediah Strong Smith (1799-1831), American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer; rediscovered South Pass, first American overland into California, first to cross the Sierra Nevada eastward and the Great Basin; killed on the Santa Fe Trail in 1831.

Jedermann

Jedermann, subtitled The Play of the Dying of the Rich Man, is a German verse morality play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, first staged in Berlin in 1911 and a fixture of the Salzburg Festival since 1920.

Jedha, Kyber, Erso

"Jedha, Kyber, Erso" is the twelfth and final episode of Andor season 2 and the series finale, aired May 13, 2025 on Disney+. Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios and written by Tom Bissell, it bridges into Rogue One via the Death Star intel, Jedha's kyber crystals, and Galen Erso.

Jedi

Jedi: fictional Force-wielding monk-warriors of Star Wars, guardians of peace in the Galactic Republic; name from Japanese jidaigeki, Buddhist and Campbellian influences; also basis of the real-world Jediism religion and 2001 census counts.

Jedi census phenomenon

The Jedi census phenomenon, or Jedi census movement, was a 2001 email campaign that drew over 500,000 "Jedi" religion responses in censuses of New Zealand, Britain, Canada, and Australia.

Jedi Mind Tricks

Jedi Mind Tricks (JMT), Philadelphia underground hip-hop group of rapper Vinnie Paz and producer Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind; formed early 1990s, name from Star Wars. Best known for Violent by Design (2000) and Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell (2006).

Jedidah

Jedidah (Hebrew Yedidah) was a 7th-century BC queen consort of Judah, wife of King Amon and mother of King Josiah, named in 2 Kings 22:1.

Jedidah C. Isler

Jedidah C. Isler is an American astrophysicist who studies blazars, jets from supermassive black holes, and became the first African American woman to earn a Yale astrophysics Ph.D. in 2014.

Jediism

Jediism, also known as the Jedi religion, is a new religious movement treating the Force as real, known for the 2001 census campaign that drew over 500,000 write-ins.

Jędrzej Moraczewski

Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870–1944) was a Polish railway engineer and socialist politician who served as the first prime minister of the Second Polish Republic from November 1918 to January 1919.

Jędrzej Śniadecki

Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768–1838) was a Polish chemist, physician, and biologist, professor of chemistry at Vilnius, who wrote the first Polish chemistry textbook and coined Polish chemical terms still in use.

Jedward

Jedward are Irish identical twins John and Edward Grimes, a pop duo formed in Dublin in 2009 on The X Factor. They represented Ireland at Eurovision 2011 ("Lipstick", 8th) and 2012 ("Waterline", 19th) and had three Irish chart-topping albums.

Jee Karda

Jee Karda (जी करदा) is a 2023 Hindi romantic comedy-drama series on Amazon Prime Video: seven Mumbai childhood friends turn 30 and find life messy. Eight 33-minute episodes, created by Arunima Sharma, starring Tamannaah Bhatia.

Jee Young Han

Jee Young Han is an American screen and voice actress known as Esti Nelson on UnPrisoned, Marion Kang on Perry Mason, the voice of Song Oak in Kipo, and Yeji in K-Pops! (2024).

Jeehwan Kim

Jeehwan Kim is a South Korean-born materials scientist and tenured associate professor at MIT, known for remote epitaxy, graphene-based layer transfer, and monolithic 3D chip integration.

Jeelani Bano

Jeelani Bano (جیلانی بانو, 1936–2026) was an Indian Urdu fiction writer and novelist from Hyderabad, best known for Aiwan-e-Ghazal and awarded the Padma Shri in 2001.

Jeena Dil Se

Jeena Dil Se (जीना दिल से) is a 2026 Hindi musical romantic comedy directed by debutant Adhish Rana for ADR Media Production, released 29 May 2026; 138 minutes, UA 16+, six songs woven into a misdelivered-hard-drive plot, mixed reviews.

Jeep

Jeep is an automotive brand of Stellantis, centered on SUVs and off-road capable 4x4 vehicles, tracing its origin to U.S. Army light reconnaissance vehicles of 1940 and 1941.

Jeep Avenger

The Jeep Avenger is a subcompact crossover SUV built by Stellantis for European and other markets, unveiled in 2022 as Jeep's first fully electric model and the 2023 European Car of the Year.

Jeep Cherokee

The Jeep Cherokee is a Jeep sport utility vehicle nameplate produced since 1974 across six generations, sold as the Liberty from 2002 to 2013 and relaunched as a hybrid for 2026.

Jeep Cherokee (KL)

The Jeep Cherokee (KL) is a compact crossover SUV built by Jeep for 2014 through 2023, the fifth Cherokee generation and the name's return to the United States after 2001.

Jeep Cherokee (KM)

The Jeep Cherokee (KM) is the sixth generation of Jeep's Cherokee SUV, built by Stellantis and sold in North America from the 2026 model year as a hybrid.

Jeep Cherokee (SJ)

The Jeep Cherokee (SJ) is a full-size SUV produced by American Motors Corporation from 1974 to 1983 as a lower-cost version of the Jeep Wagoneer.

Jeep Cherokee (XJ)

The Jeep Cherokee (XJ), also called Jeep XJ, is a compact SUV built by AMC and Chrysler from 1984 to 2001, credited with creating the compact SUV segment.

Jeep CJ

The Jeep CJ, short for Civilian Jeep, is a line of compact four-wheel-drive vehicles produced from 1945 to 1986 as the civilian counterpart of the wartime Willys MB.