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Jesse Custer
Jesse Custer, also called Preacher, is the protagonist of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Vertigo comic Preacher (1995, 66 issues) and the AMC series (2016-2019). A Texas preacher merged with Genesis, he holds the Word of God power to command obedience and hunts an absent God with Tulip and Cassidy.
Jesse D. Jennings
Jesse D. Jennings (1909–1997) was an American archaeologist and University of Utah professor, a founder of Great Basin archaeology best known for the Danger Cave excavations.
Jesse Derry
Jesse Derry (Jesse Shaun Derry, born 2007, Harrogate) is an English winger, son of Shaun Derry; ex-Crystal Palace academy, joined Chelsea 2025, England U19, on loan at Sporting CP for 2026/27.
Jesse Douglas
Jesse Douglas (1897–1965) was an American mathematician who solved the Plateau problem, earning one of the two first Fields Medals in 1936 and later teaching at City College of New York.
Jesse DuMond
Jesse DuMond (1892–1976) was an American experimental physicist at Caltech known for X-ray spectroscopy and, with E. Richard Cohen, the standard least-squares adjustments of the atomic constants.
Jesse Duplantis
Jesse Duplantis is an American prosperity-gospel televangelist and Word of Faith preacher who has led Jesse Duplantis Ministries from Destrehan, Louisiana, since 1976, and founded Covenant Church in 1997.
Jesse Dylan
Jesse Dylan (Jesse Byron Dylan), American director and producer born 1966 in New York, son of Bob Dylan; directed How High, American Wedding, Kicking & Screaming, the Emmy-winning Yes We Can video, and Soros, and founded Wondros and Lybba.
Jesse E. James
Jesse E. James, also known as Jesse James Jr., was the only surviving son of outlaw Jesse Woodson James who was tried for train robbery and became an attorney.
Jesse Ed Davis
Jesse Ed Davis (Jesse Edwin Davis III, 1944–1988) was a Kiowa-Comanche session guitarist from Norman, Oklahoma, who played with Taj Mahal, the Beatles, Dylan, and Jackson Browne, and recorded three solo albums.
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg (born 1983, New York) is an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker, Oscar-nominated as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (2010), later a Razzie-winning Lex Luthor, and the writer-director of A Real Pain and The Debut.
Jesse Faden
Jesse Faden is the protagonist of Remedy's 2019 game Control and Director of the Federal Bureau of Control, played by Courtney Hope; she gains paranatural abilities from Objects of Power while searching for her brother Dylan.
Jesse Ferguson
Jesse Ferguson, aka The Boogieman, born 1957, American heavyweight boxer (1983–1999, 26-18) who won ESPN's 1985 Young Heavyweight tournament, beat Buster Douglas and Ray Mercer, lost to Tyson in 1986, and challenged Riddick Bowe for the WBA title in 1993.
Jesse Gabriel
Jesse Gabriel is an American Democratic politician and former constitutional rights attorney, first elected to the California State Assembly in 2018 and serving as Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee.
Jesse Giddings
Jesse Giddings (born 1984) is a Canadian TV host, musician, and photographer from Langley, British Columbia, a MuchMusic VJ on New.Music.Live (2009-2012), E! News correspondent from 2013, husband of actress Hannah Simone, and founder of the Firsthand Foundation.
Jesse H. Jones
Jesse H. Jones (Jesse Holman Jones, 1874–1956) was a Houston businessman, real estate developer, and Houston Chronicle owner who chaired the Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1933–1939 and served as Secretary of Commerce 1940–1945, financing Depression recovery and World War II industrial expansion.
Jesse Helms
Jesse Helms (1921-2008), Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina 1973-2003, former WRAL broadcaster, 'Senator No,' chaired Agriculture and Foreign Relations, pioneer of direct-mail fundraising.
Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter
Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter, the All My Children supercouple played by Darnell Williams and Debbi Morgan, regarded as daytime's first Black supercouple, married 1983, separated by Jesse's 1988 presumed death, reunited 2008.
Jesse Hughes (musician)
Jesse Hughes, also known as Boots Electric, is an American singer and guitarist and the frontman of Eagles of Death Metal, which he co-founded with Josh Homme in 1998.
Jesse Itzler
Jesse Itzler, also known as Jesse Jaymes, is an American entrepreneur, author, and speaker who co-founded Marquis Jet and owns a minority stake in the Atlanta Hawks.
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson (Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., born Jesse Louis Burns), 1941-2026, American civil rights leader, Baptist minister, Operation PUSH and Rainbow PUSH founder, and 1984/1988 Democratic presidential candidate; died February 17, 2026, in Chicago.
Jesse Jackson Jr.
Jesse Jackson Jr., son of the civil-rights leader, represented Illinois's 2nd District from 1995 to 2012. He pleaded guilty to campaign-fund fraud and later sought a congressional comeback.
Jesse Jagz
Jesse Jagz (Jesse Garba Abaga, born 1984) is a Nigerian rapper, record producer, and songwriter from Jos, the younger brother of M.I Abaga, who runs the Jagz Nation imprint.
Jesse James
Jesse Woodson James (1847–1882), Missouri outlaw and ex-Confederate guerrilla, led the James–Younger Gang's bank and train robberies until Robert Ford shot him in St. Joseph; his Robin Hood image is a debunked myth.
Jesse James (1939 film)
Jesse James (1939) is a Henry King Technicolor Western from Twentieth Century-Fox starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, and Nancy Kelly; Fox's top 1939 hit and the first true Western in three-color Technicolor.
Jesse James (actor)
Jesse James (actor) refers chiefly to the American actor born 1989 in Palm Springs, a former child star of As Good as It Gets, Pearl Harbor, Blow, The Butterfly Effect, and The Amityville Horror; the name is also used by actors Jesse James Keitel and a Texas-based performer.
Jesse James (television personality)
Jesse James (Jesse Gregory James, born 1969, Long Beach, California), founder of West Coast Choppers and host of Discovery's Monster Garage; distinct from the outlaw, Jesse James Decker, and actors named Jesse James.
Jesse James Hollywood
Jesse James Hollywood, California marijuana dealer convicted of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the 2000 killing of teenager Nicholas Markowitz over a drug debt; captured in Brazil 2005, sentenced to life without parole; basis for the film Alpha Dog.
Jesse James Keitel
Jesse James Keitel is an American actor and artist from eastern Long Island, known for the role of Jerrie Kennedy on the ABC drama Big Sky.
Jesse James West
Jesse James West, also known as JJW, is an American fitness YouTuber and natural bodybuilder from Sparta, New Jersey, born in 2000, with about 11 million YouTube subscribers, the Stay Relentless brand, and the Team Relentless Skool community.
Jesse Jane
Jesse Jane (Cynthia Ann Howell, 1980-2024), American adult film star, Digital Playground contract performer, lead of Pirates and Pirates II, mainstream cameos, died in Moore, Oklahoma of accidental overdose.