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Jelani Thurman
Jelani Thurman, North Carolina Tar Heels tight end, former Ohio State player and four-star 2023 recruit from Langston Hughes High, Fairburn, Georgia; 6-6, 245 lb, son of Kara Braxton and Odell Thurman.
Jelena Dimitrijević
Jelena Dimitrijević (1862–1945) was a self-taught Serbian writer and feminist, recognized as the first Serbian woman world traveler who focused on the lives of women in the East.
Jelena Dokic
Jelena Dokic (Јелена Докић), Australian former tennis player, commentator, and author; career-high world No. 4 (2002), six WTA titles, 1999 Wimbledon upset of Hingis, and advocate against domestic violence.
Jelena Janković (Јелена Јанковић)
Jelena Janković (Јелена Јанковић), Serbian tennis player, world No. 1 from 11 August 2008 and 2008 year-end No. 1 without a Grand Slam title; 15 WTA titles, 2008 US Open finalist, 2012 Fed Cup finalist, retired 2022.
Jelena Karleuša (Јелена Карлеуша)
Jelena Karleuša (Јелена Карлеуша), born 1978 in Belgrade, is a Serbian pop singer and TV personality active about 30 years, known for the Ceca rivalry, LGBT advocacy, and the 2023 comeback albums Alpha and Omega.
Jeļena Ostapenko
Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player born 1997 in Riga; 2017 French Open singles champion as first unseeded Open Era winner there, 2024 US Open doubles champion with Kichenok, career-high No. 5, 5-0 vs Swiatek.
Jelena Ovchinnikova-Čebukina
Jelena Ovchinnikova-Čebukina (Yelena Chebukina, Елена Овчинникова-Чебукина), born 1965 in Balqash, Kazakhstan, is a volleyball player who won 1988 Olympic gold for the USSR, 1992 silver for the Unified Team, and played for Croatia at Sydney 2000.
Jelena Rozga
Jelena Rozga (Јелена Розга) is a Croatian pop singer who fronted Magazin from 1996 to 2006, then went solo, winning the Porin for the 2011 hit 'Bižuterija'.
Jelenkor
Jelenkor, a Hungarian literary and arts monthly whose title means "The Present Age," has been edited in Pécs since 1958 and published the new prose of Esterházy and Nádas.
Jeline Vandromme
Jeline Vandromme (born 2007) is a Belgian tennis player, 2025 US Open girls' junior champion and ITF Junior Finals winner, later a WTA top-130 professional with six ITF tour titles.
Jeliya
Jeliya, also written jaliya, is the hereditary musical and verbal art of the jeli, the oral historians and praise singers of the Mande peoples of West Africa.
Jell-O
Jell-O, an American brand of instant fruit-flavored gelatin dessert mixes and puddings, invented 1897 by Pearle Bixby Wait in LeRoy, New York, sold 1899 to Orator Woodward for $450, now owned by Kraft Heinz, famous for mid-century Jell-O salads.
Jellaz massacre
The Jellaz massacre (أحداث جلاز) was the violent suppression of a 1911 anti-colonial protest at the Jellaz cemetery, Tunis' largest Muslim necropolis, leaving roughly 20 to 50 Tunisians dead.
Jelle de Boer
Jelle de Boer is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded Bitvavo, the Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange, in 2018 with Tim Baardse and Mark Nuvelstijn; it grew into the world's largest euro spot exchange.
Jellicle cats
Jellicle cats, also called the Jellicles, are T. S. Eliot's fictional cat tribe from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), named from 'dear little cats', who hold the annual Jellicle Ball in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats (1981).
Jellied eels
Jellied eels are a traditional London dish of eels boiled and set in jelly, eaten cold with vinegar. An 18th-century East End specialty sold in pie and mash shops, now rare, made from the critically endangered European eel.
Jellinbah Coal Mine
Jellinbah Coal Mine, also known as Jellinbah East, is an open cut metallurgical coal mine in the Bowen Basin of central Queensland, operating since 1989.
Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church
Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church: UNESCO World Heritage site (1994) in Jutland, Denmark, with two Viking-Age royal mounds, the runestones of Gorm and Harald Bluetooth, and Jelling Church.
Jellium model
The jellium model, also called the uniform electron gas, replaces the ions of a metal with a uniform positive background charge, making it a fundamental model of condensed-matter physics.
Jello Biafra
Jello Biafra, born Eric Reed Boucher, is the American punk musician, spoken word artist, and activist who fronted the Dead Kennedys, founded Alternative Tentacles, fought a 1987 obscenity case, and lost a 2000 royalties lawsuit.
Jelly bean
Jelly bean: small bean-shaped candy with a firm sugar shell and soft chewy center, made by soft sugar panning over 7 to 21 days; first printed references 1886 or 1898, Easter candy since the 1930s, famously favored by Ronald Reagan.
Jelly Belly
Jelly Belly is an American gourmet jelly bean brand launched in 1976 by Herman Goelitz Candy Company, first to flavor bean centers, famous through Ronald Reagan, and acquired by Ferrara Candy Company in 2023.
Jelly blubber
Jelly blubber, or blue blubber (Catostylus mosaicus), is a rhizostome jellyfish common in eastern Australian estuaries, with a bell to 30-35 cm, eight oral arms, blue to brown coloration from symbiotic algae, a mild sting, and commercial fishery potential.
Jelly fungi of East Asia
The jelly fungi of East Asia are gelatinous wood-decay mushrooms, chiefly Auricularia wood ears and Tremella; China's wood ear output reached almost 8 million tons in 2024.
Jelly fungi of North America
The jelly fungi of North America are gelatin-textured basidiomycetes in the orders Auriculariales and Tremellales, including wood ears and toothed jellies, documented through regional floras and checklists.
Jelly Roll (singer)
Jelly Roll (Jason Bradley DeFord, born 1984) is a Nashville country singer formerly a Southern hip-hop artist; known for Whitsitt Chapel, Beautifully Broken, six Country Airplay No. 1s, 2026 Grammys, Opry induction, and 275-pound weight loss.
Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton (Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, 1885 or 1890-1941), New Orleans Creole jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader; first great jazz composer, Red Hot Peppers Victor recordings, 1938 Library of Congress oral history with Alan Lomax.
Jellybox (studio)
Jellybox, or Jellybox Studio, is an American independent animation studio in Los Angeles founded in summer 2023 by Gene Goldstein after a layoff. It makes short-form client animation, the series NOXP and Umbert Actually!, and the Animation Workers Ignited shorts.
Jellycat
Jellycat is a British soft toy brand founded in London in 1999 by the Gatacre brothers, known for plush animals and anthropomorphized objects with smiling faces.
Jellyfish
Jellyfish are medusozoan cnidarians (Scyphozoa, Hydrozoa, Cubozoa, Staurozoa) with medusa body forms, about 95% water, nerve nets, nematocyst stings, and polyp-medusa life cycles; fewer than 4,000 of over 10,000 cnidarian species.