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Jerrold M. Olefsky
Jerrold M. Olefsky is an American endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego since 1983, known for research on insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes.
Jerrold Meinwald
Jerrold Meinwald (1927–2018) was an American organic chemist at Cornell University who co-established chemical ecology, the study of the chemicals organisms use to defend themselves and communicate.
Jerrold R. Turner
Jerrold R. Turner is an American physician-scientist, Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for research on intestinal tight junctions.
Jerrold R. Zacharias
Jerrold R. Zacharias (1905–1986) was an American nuclear physicist at MIT who developed the first commercial atomic clocks and founded the PSSC science education reform.
Jerry & Marge Go Large
Jerry & Marge Go Large is a 2022 Paramount+ comedy-drama directed by David Frankel, starring Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening as the real Selbees, who legally won millions exploiting a Winfall lottery rolldown loophole.
Jerry A. Coyne
Jerry A. Coyne, also known as Jerry Coyne, is an American evolutionary geneticist at the University of Chicago known for research on the genetics of speciation.
Jerry A. Hausman
Jerry A. Hausman is an econometrician, the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at MIT, known for the 1978 Hausman specification test and panel-data estimation methods.
Jerry A. Schneider
Jerry A. Schneider (1937–2021) was an American pediatrician and researcher at UC San Diego who turned the fatal childhood disease cystinosis into a treatable condition through cysteamine therapy.
Jerry A. Shields
Jerry A. Shields (1937–2025) was an American ophthalmologist who founded the Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia in 1974 and led it for 44 years.
Jerry Adler
Jerry Adler (1929–2025) was an American character actor known for playing Hesh Rabkin on The Sopranos and Howard Lyman on The Good Wife and The Good Fight.
Jerry Amaldev
Jerry Amaldev, the stage name of Jerome Thomas Veleeparambil, is an Indian composer from Kochi who has scored Malayalam cinema since 1980, winning the Kerala State Film Award three times.
Jerry Apodaca
Jerry Apodaca (Raymond S. Apodaca, 1934-2023), Democratic 24th governor of New Mexico 1975-1979, the first Hispanic U.S. governor since 1918; reorganized state government into twelve cabinet departments and later chaired the President's Council on Physical Fitness.
Jerry Avorn
Jerry Avorn is a physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and founding chief of the Brigham and Women's Hospital pharmacoepidemiology division, who originated academic detailing.
Jerry B. Lingrel
Jerry B. Lingrel (1935–2020) was an American molecular biologist at the University of Cincinnati whose laboratory identified hemoglobin mRNA and mapped the goat globin gene cluster.
Jerry Baldwin
Jerry Baldwin (born 1942) is an American specialty-coffee entrepreneur who co-founded and led Starbucks as president from 1971 to 1987, then bought and ran Peet's Coffee until 2001.
Jerry Bright
Jerry Bright is an American sprinter who won silver in the 200 meters at the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg and was a three-time All-American for Arizona State.
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown (Edmund G. Brown Jr., born 1938) is an American Democratic politician and four-term governor of California (1975–83, 2011–19), the state's longest-serving; also Oakland mayor, attorney general, secretary of state, and three-time presidential candidate.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer (Jerome Leon Bruckheimer), American film and TV producer born in Detroit; ex-advertising executive, Don Simpson partner behind Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop, creator of CSI and Pirates of the Caribbean franchises, Seattle Kraken co-founder.
Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Jerry Bruckheimer Films is the American production company founded by producer Jerry Bruckheimer in 1995, behind Pirates of the Caribbean, Bad Boys, Top Gun, CSI, and F1 The Movie, with over $16 billion in worldwide earnings.
Jerry Brudos
Jerry Brudos (Jerome Henry Brudos, 1939-2006), the Lust Killer or Shoe Fetish Slayer, was an American serial killer who murdered four women in Oregon in 1968-1969, pleaded guilty to three, and died in prison as Oregon DOC's longest-serving inmate.
Jerry Buss
Jerry Buss, born Gerald Hatten Buss, was an American businessman who owned the Los Angeles Lakers from 1979 until his death in 2013, winning 10 NBA championships.
Jerry Butler
Jerry Butler (1939-2025), the Iceman, was an American soul singer, co-founder and original lead of the Impressions on "For Your Precious Love", a Gamble-and-Huff solo hitmaker, 1991 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and Cook County commissioner from 1985 to 2018.
Jerry Butler (actor)
Jerry Butler (Paul David Siederman, 1959-2018), Brooklyn-born American adult film actor active 1981-1993 with 656 credits; AFAA, XRCO and Hustler Best Actor winner, AVN Hall of Fame, author of Raw Talent, married to Lisa Loring.
Jerry Cantrell
Jerry Cantrell (born 1966, Tacoma, Washington), American guitarist, singer and songwriter; co-founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and main songwriter of Alice in Chains, and solo artist behind Boggy Depot, Brighten and I Want Blood.
Jerry Carl
Jerry Carl is an American Republican politician and businessman who served as U.S. Representative for Alabama's 1st District from 2021 to 2025 and is the party's 2026 nominee for the seat.
Jerry Chen
Jerry Chen is an American venture capitalist and Greylock Partners partner who invests in enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, and AI after nearly a decade at VMware.
Jerry Cirino
Jerry Cirino is an American politician and Republican member of the Ohio Senate representing the 18th district, serving his second term and chairing the Senate Finance Committee.
Jerry Clower
Jerry Clower (Howard Gerald Clower, 1926-1998), Mississippi country comedian and Grand Ole Opry storyteller, gold-record album Jerry Clower from Yazoo City, Mississippi Talkin', Ledbetter clan tales, fertilizer salesman turned humorist.
Jerry Colangelo
Jerry Colangelo (born 1939) is an American sports executive: Phoenix Suns GM at 28 in 1968, four-time NBA Executive of the Year, Diamondbacks founder (2001 World Series), USA Basketball managing director 2005-21, Hall of Famer 2004.
Jerry Cornes
Jerry Cornes (John Frederick Cornes, 1910-2001), British middle-distance runner, Oxford and Achilles Club miler; silver in the 1932 Olympic 1500m, sixth at Berlin 1936, Empire Games mile bronze 1930 and 1934, later a colonial administrator and headmaster.