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Jerzy Dudek
Jerzy Dudek, Polish goalkeeper born 1973 in Rybnik; played for Feyenoord, Liverpool (186 games, 2005 Champions League hero in Istanbul), and Real Madrid; 60 Poland caps; retired 2011.
Jerzy E. Rose
Jerzy E. Rose (Jerzy Edwin Rose) was a Polish-born American neuroscientist in auditory neurophysiology who, with Clinton Woolsey, shaped the first view of auditory cortex organization.
Jerzy Edwin Rose
Jerzy Edwin Rose (1909–1992) was a Polish-born American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Jerzy Giedroyc
Jerzy Giedroyc (1906–2000) was a Polish editor and political writer who founded the Literary Institute and edited the Paris-based émigré monthly Kultura from 1947 until his death.
Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999), Polish director of the Laboratory Theatre, creator of poor theatre and author of Towards a Poor Theatre (1968), later phases of paratheatre and ritual research.
Jerzy Kaczmarek
Jerzy Kaczmarek (born 1948, Lubsko) is a Polish foil fencer, not the 1950-born Łódź namesake. Olympic team foil gold at Munich 1972; world silver 1969, 1971, 1974; later a coach in Germany.
Jerzy Konorski
Jerzy Konorski (1903–1973) was a Polish neurophysiologist who, with Stefan Miller, discovered instrumental conditioning in 1928, founded the Polish School of Brain Physiology, and headed neurophysiology at the Nencki Institute in Warsaw.
Jerzy Kosiński
Jerzy Kosiński (Jerzy Kosinski, born Jerzy Lewinkopf), Polish-American novelist (1933-1991), author of The Painted Bird, Steps (National Book Award), and Being There; PEN president, undone by 1982 Village Voice plagiarism and ghostwriting accusations, died by suicide in 1991.
Jerzy Kraska
Jerzy Kraska (Jerzy Adam Kraska), Polish footballer born 1951 in Płock, defensive midfielder for Gwardia Warszawa; won 1972 Munich Olympic gold with Poland, 13 caps, later a coach.
Jerzy Kukuczka
Jerzy Kukuczka (1948–1989), Polish Himalayan climber, second person after Messner to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, 1979–1987, with 11 new routes and 4 winter firsts; died on Lhotse's south face.
Jerzy Kulej
Jerzy Kulej was a Polish amateur boxer who won gold at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics, making him the only Polish boxer with two titles. He also served in parliament.
Jerzy Łoś
Jerzy Łoś (1920–1998) was a Polish mathematician and logician who defined the ultraproduct construction and proved the fundamental Łoś theorem, with further results in algebra, probability, and economics.
Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981) was a Polish statistician who co-created the Neyman–Pearson theory of hypothesis testing, introduced confidence intervals, founded the statistics department at Berkeley, and received the 1968 National Medal of Science.
Jerzy Ossoliński
Jerzy Ossoliński (1595–1650) was a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth statesman and diplomat, Grand Crown Chancellor from 1643, famed for his spectacular 1633 embassy to Rome and his role in the 1648 interregnum.
Jerzy Paszkowski
Jerzy Paszkowski, known informally as Jurek Paszkowski, is a plant biologist who studies epigenetic inheritance in plants, a Geneva professor until 2011 and later at Cambridge.
Jerzy Pawłowski
Jerzy Władysław Pawłowski (1932–2005), Polish sabre fencer, six-time Olympian, 1968 Olympic sabre champion and three-time world champion, later convicted as a CIA double agent and imprisoned.
Jerzy Plebański
Jerzy Franciszek Plebański (1928–2005) was a Polish mathematical physicist who co-wrote the classic Motion and Relativity with Leopold Infeld and founded the Mexican relativity school at CINVESTAV in Mexico City.
Jerzy Radziwiłł
Jerzy Radziwiłł (c. 1480–1541), nicknamed "Hercules," was a Lithuanian magnate and Grand Hetman who fought at Orsha in 1514 and fathered Barbara Radziwiłłówna, Queen of Poland.
Jerzy Rybicki
Jerzy Rybicki (born 1953, Warsaw) is a Polish boxer, Gwardia Warszawa, who won light-middleweight gold at Montreal 1976 and middleweight bronze at Moscow 1980, the last Polish Olympic boxing champion.
Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski
Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski (1616–1667) was a Polish magnate, soldier, and politician who served as Grand Marshal and Field Hetman of the Crown and won a famous victory over Russian forces at Cudnów in 1660.
Jerzy Starak
Jerzy Starak, born in 1947, is a Polish billionaire businessman who took over Polpharma in 2000 and built it into Poland's largest generic drug maker.
Jes Olesen
Jes Olesen, born in 1941, is a Danish neurologist at the University of Copenhagen who chaired all three editions of the International Classification of Headache Disorders.
Jes Staley
Jes Staley, born James Edward Staley, is an American banker who led the British bank Barclays as chief executive from 2015 until his 2021 resignation.
Jesaiah
Jesaiah is a legendary exilarch named in the chronicle Seder 'Olam Zuṭa between Hasadiah and Obadiah among Shechaniah's predecessors; no dates, deeds, or independent attestation of him exist.
Jesco White
Jesco White, "The Dancing Outlaw" (born 1956, Bandy town, West Virginia), is an Appalachian mountain dancer blending tap and clog styles, famous from the 1991 PBS documentary Dancing Outlaw, its sequel, the 2009 White family documentaries, and the biopic White Lightnin'.
Jesé
Jesé (Jesé Rodríguez Ruiz), Spanish forward born 1993 in Las Palmas, Real Madrid academy product who won two Champions Leagues, an ACL tear in 2014 derailed his career, later PSG, loans, Las Palmas, Johor, and a 2025 return to Las Palmas.
Jeshanah
Jeshanah (Hebrew Yeshanah, "the old place") was an ancient town north of Jerusalem on the Judah–Israel border, captured by King Abijah and known only from 2 Chronicles 13:19.
Jeshi
Jeshi is the stage name of Jesse Greenway, an East London rapper and producer signed to Because Music, known for the albums Universal Credit and Airbag Woke Me Up.
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward (born 1977) is an American novelist from DeLisle, Mississippi, author of Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing, the only woman to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice, plus Men We Reaped, Let Us Descend, and a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship.
Jesper Bank
Jesper Bank (born 1957, Fredericia) is a Danish sailor, two-time Olympic gold medalist (Soling, 1992 and 2000) and 1988 bronze medalist, six-time world champion, America's Cup skipper, and director of Elvstrøm Sails.