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Jerome Sinclair
Jerome Sinclair (Jerome Terence Sinclair, born 1996, Birmingham) is a retired English centre-forward, Liverpool FC's youngest-ever player at 16 years 6 days, later Watford, loans at Sunderland, Oxford, VVV-Venlo, CSKA Sofia; retired 2021.
Jerome Swartz
Jerome Swartz, known as Jerry Swartz, was an American electrical engineer who co-founded Symbol Technologies, patented the handheld laser bar-code scanner, and founded the Swartz Foundation for neuroscience.
Jerome Vinograd
Jerome Vinograd (1913–1976) was an American biophysical chemist at Caltech, called by The New York Times one of the foremost DNA researchers, known for density gradient ultracentrifugation and closed circular DNA.
Jerome W. Conn
Jerome W. Conn (1907–1994) was an American endocrinologist at the University of Michigan who defined primary aldosteronism, the adrenal hormone disorder known as Conn's syndrome, in 1954, and studied hypertension and diabetes.
Jérôme Waser
Jérôme Waser, born 1977 in Sierre, is a Swiss organic chemist and full professor at EPFL, known for hypervalent-iodine EBX alkynylation reagents and redox gold catalysis.
Jerome Wiesner
Jerome Wiesner was an American electrical engineer, science advisor to President John F. Kennedy, and the thirteenth president of MIT, serving from 1971 to 1980.
Jérôme-Hermès Bolsec
Jérôme-Hermès Bolsec (died c. 1584) was a French theologian and physician, a former Carmelite monk banished from Geneva for life in 1551 for disputing Calvin's doctrine of predestination.
Jerome, Arizona
Jerome, Arizona: historic copper-mining town on Cleopatra Hill in Yavapai County, incorporated 1899, once home to nearly 15,000, a National Historic Landmark since 1967, now an artist and tourist community of about 444 people.
Jeromy B. Williams
Rear Admiral Jeromy B. Williams, U.S. Navy SEAL officer born in Las Vegas, Nevada; Naval Academy 1993; commands as Director of Operations J-3, U.S. Special Operations Command, after leading Special Operations Command Pacific; distinct from Medal of Honor recipient James E. Williams.
Jerónimo Carrión
Jerónimo Carrión, born in the 1800s, was an Ecuadorian lawyer and Conservative politician who served as President of Ecuador from 1865 to 1867, resigning under pressure from Gabriel García Moreno.
Jerónimo de Alderete
Jerónimo de Alderete was a Spanish conquistador who took part in Pedro de Valdivia's conquest of Chile and was named governor of Chile in 1555 to succeed Valdivia.
Jerónimo de Loayza
Jerónimo de Loayza (1498–1575) was a Spanish Dominican friar who served as the first bishop and first archbishop of Lima and founded the Hospital de Santa Ana for indigenous Peruvians.
Jerónimo de Mendieta
Jerónimo de Mendieta (1525–1604) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary and historian who spent most of his life in New Spain and wrote the Historia eclesiástica indiana.
Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera
Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera was a Spanish conquistador born in Seville who founded the city of Ica in Peru and Córdoba, Argentina, in 1573, and was executed in 1574 for disobeying the viceroy's orders.
Jeronimo Martins
Jeronimo Martins is a Portuguese food distribution and retail group listed on Euronext Lisbon, dominated by Biedronka, Poland's largest food retailer, with Pingo Doce in Portugal and Ara in Colombia.
Jerónimo Mendieta
Jerónimo Mendieta (1525–1604) was a Franciscan missionary and chronicler of New Spain who arrived in Mexico in 1554, learned Nahuatl, and wrote the Historia eclesiástica indiana, an account of the evangelization of Mexico published in 1870.
Jerónimos Monastery
The Jerónimos Monastery, formally the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Belém, is a former Hieronymite monastery in Belém, Lisbon, built from 1501 under King Manuel I.
Jeroným Tejc
Jeroným Tejc, born in 1977, is a Czech lawyer and independent politician serving as Minister of Justice since 2025, after a decade in the Chamber of Deputies.
Jerrad Christian
Jerrad Christian is an American politician, Navy veteran, and software engineer who won the May 2026 Democratic primary for Ohio's 12th district and faces Republican Rep. Troy Balderson in November.
Jerramy Stevens
Jerramy Stevens, born 1979, is a former NFL tight end from Washington; drafted 28th overall by Seattle in 2002, he played for the Seahawks and Buccaneers, catching 202 passes for 2,217 yards and 22 touchdowns.
Jerri Green
Jerri Green is an American politician and Democratic nominee for governor of Tennessee in 2026, a Memphis City Council member and former Shelby County Chief Public Defender.
Jerri Manthey
Jerri Manthey (Jerri Lynn Manthey), born 1970, is an American actress and reality TV personality known as Survivor's first villainess, finishing fourth on Heroes vs. Villains in 2010.
Jerri Nielsen
Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald (1952-2009), American ER physician who self-diagnosed and treated her breast cancer as sole doctor at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in winter 1999, aided by a midwinter airdrop and October Air National Guard rescue; author of Ice Bound.
Jèrriais
Jèrriais, also called Jersey Norman French, is the traditional Norman Romance language of Jersey, Channel Islands. Severely endangered with roughly 1-3% of islanders speaking it, it became one of Jersey's three official languages in 2019 and is now taught in all States primary schools.
Jerrie Cobb
Jerrie Cobb, born Geraldyn M. Cobb, was an American aviator who in 1960 became the first woman to pass NASA's Mercury astronaut physiological tests, though she never flew in space.
Jerrie Johnson
Jerrie Johnson, Philadelphia-born actress, poet, and arts activist (they/them), plays queer tech CEO Tye Reynolds on Prime Video's Harlem (2021-2025) and Daphne Moore in Survival of the Thickest season 2.
Jerrier A. Haddad
Jerrier A. Haddad (1922–2017) was an American computer engineer who spent his career at IBM and headed the engineering team that developed the IBM 701, the company's first large-scale electronic computer.
Jerrika Hinton
Jerrika Delayne Hinton (born 1981, Dallas) is an American actress known as Dr. Stephanie Edwards on Grey's Anatomy and Millie Morris in Hunters, with roles in Here and Now, Servant, A Man in Full, and The Piano Lesson.
Jerris R. Hedges
Jerris R. Hedges is an American emergency physician who served as Dean of the John A. Burns School of Medicine in Hawaii from 2008 to 2023.
Jerrod Carmichael
Jerrod Carmichael, American stand-up comedian and filmmaker from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, creator of NBC's The Carmichael Show; Emmy-winning HBO special Rothaniel (2022), where he came out as gay.