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Jesper Grønkjær
Jesper Grønkjær, born 1977 in Nuuk, Greenland, is a Danish former left winger (80 caps, 5 goals) who played for AaB, Ajax, Chelsea, Birmingham, Atlético Madrid, Stuttgart and FC Copenhagen, winning four Danish titles and scoring the 2003 goal that gave Chelsea their first Champions League qualification.
Jesper Kyd
Jesper Kyd, BAFTA-winning Danish composer of the Assassin's Creed, Hitman, Borderlands, Darksiders, State of Decay, and Warhammer Darktide scores; creator of the theme "Ezio's Family".
Jesper Lagergren
Jesper Lagergren is a Swedish academic surgeon and epidemiologist who studies esophageal and gastric cancer, holding professorships at Karolinska Institutet and King's College London and a 1999 NEJM study linking reflux to esophageal adenocarcinoma.
Jesper Lindstrøm
Jesper Grænge Lindstrøm, Danish attacking midfielder born 2000 in Taastrup; Danish champion with Brøndby 2021, Europa League winner with Eintracht Frankfurt 2022, later Napoli, loans at Everton, Wolfsburg, and Red Bull Salzburg; Denmark international.
Jesper Nelin
Jesper Nelin, born 1992 in Gislaved, Sweden, is a Swedish biathlete: Olympic men's relay gold 2018 and bronze 2026, 2024 world relay champion, 2 World Cup wins, clubs Hestra IF and Biathlon Östersund.
Jesper Nøddesbo
Jesper Nøddesbo (born 1980, Herning) is a retired Danish handball line player; 223 caps, Olympic gold 2016, European gold 2008, 39 titles in 10 years at FC Barcelona; now a coach and psychotherapist trainee.
Jesper Nyberg
Jesper Nyberg, Swedish running target shooter born 1994, two-time ISSF world champion (Changwon 2018, Baku 2023), equalled the 393 world record in 10m Moving Target Mixed Men, multiple European titles and team records.
Jesper Pallesen
Jesper Pallesen is a cryo-electron microscopist and structural biologist, trained with Nobel laureate Joachim Frank at Columbia, now an assistant professor at the Wistar Institute working on ribosomes and vaccine design.
Jesper Parnevik
Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer (born 1965, Stockholm), five-time PGA Tour winner and four-time European Tour winner, twice Open Championship runner-up, three Ryder Cups, world No. 7 in 2000, 2016 Insperity Invitational champion on PGA Tour Champions.
Jesper Q. Svejstrup
Jesper Q. Svejstrup is a Danish molecular biologist who studies RNA polymerase II transcription and DNA repair, and is a professor at the University of Copenhagen.
Jesper Seier
Jesper Seier (born 1965, Fredericia, Denmark) is a Danish Soling sailor, Olympic gold medalist at Barcelona 1992 in the crew of skipper Jesper Bank with Steen Secher, and 1989 Soling European champion.
Jesper Svenbro
Jesper Svenbro, born 1944 in Landskrona, is a Swedish poet and classical philologist who has lived in Paris since the 1970s and joined the Swedish Academy in 2006.
Jesper V. Olsen
Jesper V. Olsen is a Danish mass spectrometrist and proteomics researcher, professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for quantitative phosphoproteomics and the TiO2 enrichment method.
Jess Bateman
Jess Bateman, also published as Jessica Bateman, is a Democratic Washington State Senator representing the 22nd district who chairs the Senate Housing Committee and previously served in the House and on the Olympia City Council.
Jess Benhabib
Jess Benhabib, born 1948, is a Turkish-born economist who is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Political Economy at New York University, known for sunspot equilibria and indeterminacy.
Jess Bradford
Jess Bradford (Jessica Bradford) is the protagonist of Black Christmas (1974), played by Olivia Hussey; a pregnant sorority sister who plans an abortion, kills boyfriend Peter, and is an early horror final girl with an ambiguous fate.
Jess Bush
Jess Bush (Jessica Bush, born 1992, Brisbane) is an Australian actor, model, and visual artist who plays Nurse Christine Chapel in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, earning a 2022 Saturn Award nomination, and creates the Bee Totem bee-resin art series.
Jess Chanliau
Jess Chanliau, American-French non-binary actor, movement artist, and singer; RCS graduate; played Ronnie Buckhurst in Netflix's The Diplomat (2023–2024) and Stone in Inmate Zero/Patients of a Saint.
Jess Day (character)
Jessica Christopher "Jess" Day is the main character of Fox's New Girl (2011–2018), played by Zooey Deschanel. Created by Liz Meriwether, she is a schoolteacher turned vice principal who moves in with three men; marketed as "adorkable."
Jess F. Adkins
Jess F. Adkins is an American chemical oceanographer and paleoceanographer at Caltech since 2000, known for developing deep-sea corals as an archive of past deep-ocean circulation.
Jess Folley
Jess Folley (born 2003, Essex) is an English singer-songwriter and actress who won the first series of The Voice Kids UK in 2017 (Team Pixie Lott, £30,000 prize), won The X Factor: The Band with RLY, and composed for and starred as Ali Rose in Burlesque the Musical at the Savoy Theatre.
Jess Glynne
Jess Glynne (Jessica Hannah Glynne, born 1989) is an English pop singer; first British female solo artist with seven UK number one singles, Grammy winner for Clean Bandit's "Rather Be", albums I Cry When I Laugh, Always in Between, JESS.
Jess Harnell
Jess Harnell (born 1963, Teaneck, New Jersey) is an American voice actor and singer: Wakko Warner in Animaniacs, announcer of America's Funniest Home Videos since 1998, Ironhide in Transformers, Crash Bandicoot, and Rock Sugar frontman.
Jess Hilarious
Jess Hilarious (Jessica Robin Moore) is a Baltimore-born stand-up comedian, actress, and 2024 third co-host of The Breakfast Club, known for the viral "Jess With the Mess" skits, Wild 'N Out, the Fox sitcom Rel, and her memoir 'Til Death Do We Parent.
Jess Lapid
Jess Lapid was a Filipino action film star of the 1960s, famous for Kardong Kidlat (1964), who began as a stuntman and was fatally shot in a nightclub on July 13, 1968.
Jess Learmonth
Jess Learmonth (Jessica Louise Learmonth, born 1988, Leeds) is a British triathlete, Tokyo 2020 Olympic mixed relay gold medallist with Yee, Brownlee, and Taylor-Brown, 2017 European champion, 2019 world No 2, MBE.
Jess Margera
Jess Margera (Jesse Phillip Margera, born 1978) is an American drummer from West Chester, Pennsylvania, founding member of CKY, older brother of Bam Margera, and drummer for The Company Band and Viking Skull.
Jess McLeod
Jess McLeod (born 1997, Victoria, British Columbia), also credited as Jessica McLeod, is a Canadian trans nonbinary actor and filmmaker known for Janae Matthews in One of Us Is Lying, It's a Wonderful Knife, Normal, and the short She's Nonbinary; distinct from the New York theatre director of the same name.
Jess McMahon
Jess McMahon (Roderick James McMahon, 1882–1954), American boxing and wrestling promoter, Madison Square Garden matchmaker under Tex Rickard from 1925, co-founder of Capitol Wrestling Corporation with Toots Mondt, patriarch of the McMahon WWE dynasty.
Jess Morrison
Jess Morrison (Jessica Morrison, born 1992, Melbourne) is an Australian rower with Mercantile Rowing Club, Olympic gold in the Tokyo 2020 women's four and bronze in the Paris 2024 pair with Annabelle McIntyre, after switching from swimming.