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Jerry Kill
Jerry Kill (born 1961) is an American college football coach who led Southern Illinois, Northern Illinois, Minnesota, and New Mexico State, won the 2014 Big Ten Coach of the Year, and retired once for epilepsy before a 2022-23 NMSU comeback.
Jerry Kramer
Jerry Kramer (Gerald Louis Kramer, born January 23, 1936, Jordan, Montana) is a Hall of Fame Green Bay Packers right guard (1958-68) who won five NFL titles, blocked for the Ice Bowl touchdown, and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018.
Jerry Krause
Jerry Krause (1939–2017), Chicago Bulls general manager 1985–2003, built the six-title Jordan/Jackson dynasty via the Pippen trade and Jackson hire; Hall of Fame 2017, later vilified by The Last Dance.
Jerry L. Atwood
Jerry L. Atwood (born 1942) is an American supramolecular chemist and Curators' Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, known as a founder of host-guest chemistry and for his work on calixarenes.
Jerry L. Spivak
Jerry L. Spivak is an American hematologist, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, and former director of its Center for the Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders.
Jerry L. Workman
Jerry L. Workman is an American biochemist at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research who pioneered the study of chromatin in transcription regulation and discovered the SAGA complex.
Jerry Lawler
Jerry "The King" Lawler (born 1949), Memphis wrestler and WWE commentator. Debuted 1970, CWA co-owner with Jerry Jarrett, Andy Kaufman feud 1982, AWA champion, 2007 WWE Hall of Fame inductee.
Jerry Lawson (engineer)
Jerry Lawson (1940-2011), American engineer, led development of the Fairchild Channel F (1976), the first cartridge-based home video game console, and founded Video Soft, an early Black-owned game company.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (1935–2022), "The Killer," American rock and roll and country pianist-singer from Ferriday, Louisiana; Sun Records star of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire," Million Dollar Quartet member, and 2022 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee.
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, American songwriting and production duo (partnership 1950-2011), wrote "Hound Dog," "Stand By Me," "Yakety Yak," and "Jailhouse Rock"; first independent producers, Rock Hall 1987.
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch, 1926-2017), American comedian and filmmaker of Martin and Lewis, director of The Nutty Professor, MDA telethon host, auteur revered in France as Le Roi du Crazy.
Jerry Lorenzo
Jerry Lorenzo (Jerry Lorenzo Manuel Jr.), American designer who founded luxury streetwear label Fear of God in 2013 with $14,000, plus Essentials and Adidas-partnered Athletics; independent brand with $200–300 million revenue.
Jerry Lucas
Jerry Lucas (born 1940, Middletown, Ohio) is a Hall of Fame basketball forward-center, 'Dr. Memory.' 1960 NCAA and Olympic champion, 1973 Knicks NBA champion, 7x All-Star, 15.6 career RPG.
Jerry Lundergan
Jerry Lundergan (Gerald G. Lundergan), Kentucky businessman, former state representative, and twice Kentucky Democratic Party chairman, father of Alison Lundergan Grimes; convicted in 2019 of illegal corporate contributions to her 2014 Senate campaign, sentenced to 21 months, and pardoned by Biden in 2025.
Jerry Lynn
Jerry Lynn is an American retired pro wrestler (debuted March 1988, retired March 23, 2013), a two-time world champion as ECW World Heavyweight and ROH World titleholder, known for his ECW feud with Rob Van Dam, pioneering TNA's X Division, and now working as an AEW producer and coach.
Jerry M. Adams
Jerry M. Adams, born 1940, is an American-born Australian molecular biologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne whose work established how Myc translocations drive Burkitt lymphoma and how Bcl-2 blocks cell death.
Jerry M. Melillo
Jerry M. Melillo is an American ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
Jerry Maguire
Jerry Maguire: 1996 Cameron Crowe romantic comedy-drama starring Tom Cruise as a sports agent fired after an ethics memo, with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Renee Zellweger; $153.6M US gross, Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
Jerry Maren
Jerry Maren (Gerard Marenghi, 1920–2018), American actor, the Lollipop Guild Munchkin who handed Dorothy the lollipop in The Wizard of Oz (1939); last surviving little-person Munchkin, Little People of America co-founder, Buster Brown and Mayor McCheese commercial performer.
Jerry Mathers
Jerry Mathers (Gerald Patrick Mathers), American actor born 1948 in Sioux City, Iowa; child star as Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963, 234 episodes), later Still the Beaver, Hairspray on Broadway, and diabetes advocacy.
Jerry McAfee
Jerry McAfee (1916–1995) was an American chemical engineer who rose through Gulf Oil to become its chairman and CEO, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1967.
Jerry McAleer
Jerry McAleer, Ph.D., is a diagnostics-industry scientist who co-founded point-of-care testing company LumiraDx in 2014, serving as Director and Chief Scientist until his 2023 resignation.
Jerry McNerney
Jerry McNerney is an American Democratic politician representing California's 5th Senate district, including San Joaquin County, elected in 2024 after 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Jerry Miculek
Jerry Miculek, also known as Jerry Charles Miculek Jr., is an American professional competitive shooter from Louisiana who holds five NRA world speed shooting titles.
Jerry Moran
Jerry Moran, born Gerald Wesley Moran in 1954, is an American Republican politician who has represented Kansas in the United States Senate since 2011 and chairs the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Jerry Mouse
Jerry Mouse, originally Jinx, is the brown mouse protagonist of MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons created by Hanna and Barbera in 1940, debuting in Puss Gets the Boot opposite Tom the cat.
Jerry Murdock
Jerry Murdock is an American venture capitalist who cofounded Insight Venture Partners with Jeff Horing in New York in 1995, known for his 2009 Twitter investment.
Jerry Murrell
Jerry Murrell is an American restaurateur who co-founded Five Guys, a burger chain with more than 1,900 restaurants worldwide, with his wife and sons in 1986 in Arlington, Virginia.
Jerry Nadler
Jerrold "Jerry" Nadler, Democratic U.S. Representative for New York since 1992 (NY-12), former House Judiciary chairman 2019–2023 who led both Trump impeachments and authored the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act; not seeking reelection in 2026.
Jerry Nelson
Jerry Nelson (1934–2012), American Muppet performer, voiced Count von Count, Floyd Pepper, Robin, and Gobo Fraggle across Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock; Emmy-winning Jimmy Dean Show recruit.