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Jesse Rath
Jesse Rath (born 1989) is a Canadian actor from Montreal best known for playing Brainiac-5 on The CW's Supergirl and Alak Tarr on Syfy's Defiance.
Jesse Renick
Jesse "Cab" Renick (1917-1999) was an American basketball player, Oklahoma A&M All-American, and captain of the 1948 U.S. Olympic basketball team that won gold in London, later a championship Phillips 66ers coach and Chickasaw Hall of Fame inductee.
Jesse Ridgway
Jesse Ridgway (born 1992), aka McJuggerNuggets, is a New Jersey YouTuber behind the staged Psycho Series (2012–2016), revealed fake in 2016, and co-founder of StoryFire; distinct from General Matthew Ridgway and Gary Ridgway.
Jesse Robredo
Jesse Robredo (1958–2012) was a Filipino official, 19-year mayor of Naga City (1988–1998, 2001–2010) and DILG Secretary (2010–2012), and 2000 Ramon Magsaysay Award laureate known for participatory, transparent governance and his i-Governance legacy.
Jesse Roth
Jesse Roth (1934–2026) was an American endocrinologist whose research on the insulin receptor established that hormones act through specific receptors on cell surfaces, reshaping the study of diabetes.
Jesse Royal
Jesse Royal, born Jesse David Leroi Grey in 1989, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer, known as 'The Small Axe', and a leading figure of the Reggae Revival.
Jesse Russell
Jesse Eugene Russell is an American electrical engineer who led the Bell Labs team that introduced digital cellular technology in the United States in 1988, earning election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Jesse Rutherford
Jesse Rutherford (Jesse James Rutherford, b. 1991, Newbury Park, CA) is an American singer-songwriter and former child actor, lead vocalist of the Neighbourhood ("Sweater Weather") and solo artist as Jesse Rutherford/Jesse® (albums &, Garageb&, &ONE, Wanted?).
Jesse Salomon
Jesse Salomon is an American politician, a Democrat in the Washington State Senate representing the 32nd district since 2019, after seven years on the Shoreline City Council.
Jesse Saunders
Jesse Saunders is an American DJ and record producer from Chicago whose 1984 track 'On & On' is widely credited as the first house record on vinyl.
Jesse Schank
Jesse R. Schank is an American neuropharmacologist at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine who studies how the neurokinin-1 receptor drives alcohol and opioid seeking behavior.
Jesse Shapiro
Jesse M. Shapiro is an American applied microeconomist who holds the George Gund Professorship at Harvard Business School and is known for research on media bias, polarization, and econometric methods, winning a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship.
Jesse Spencer
Jesse Gordon Spencer, Australian actor and musician born 1979 in Melbourne, known as Billy Kennedy on Neighbours (1994-2000), Dr. Robert Chase on House (2004-2012), and Captain Matthew Casey on Chicago Fire (2012-2021).
Jesse Stone (character)
Jesse Stone is Robert B. Parker's fictional police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts, an ex-LAPD alcoholic homicide detective introduced in Night Passage (1997), continued by four later authors and played by Tom Selleck in nine TV movies.
Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise
Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise (2015) is the ninth Tom Selleck Jesse Stone TV movie, the first made for Hallmark Channel after eight on CBS, directed by Robert Harmon and written by Michael Brandman and Selleck.
Jesse Summers
Jesse Summers, born in 1941, is an American virologist who discovered animal hepatitis B-like viruses, including woodchuck hepatitis virus, and showed they replicate DNA by reverse transcription.
Jesse Taylor
Jesse Taylor, nicknamed "JT Money", is an American professional mixed martial artist and jiu-jitsu black belt, born in 1983, who won The Ultimate Fighter 25.
Jesse Topper
Jesse Topper is an American Republican politician who has represented Pennsylvania's 78th District in the House since 2014 and became House Minority Leader in 2025.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (born 1975) is an American actor, Mitchell Pritchett on Modern Family (2009–2020), with five Emmy nominations, a 2022 Tony Award for Take Me Out, and LGBTQ-rights activism via Tie the Knot.
Jesse V. Jokerst
Jesse V. Jokerst is an American biomedical engineer and analytical chemist who leads the Jokerst Bioimaging Lab at UC San Diego, working on photoacoustic imaging and nanomedicine.
Jesse Valenzuela
Jesse Valenzuela is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, founding member of Tempe, Arizona's Gin Blossoms, co-writer of "Follow You Down" and "Til I Hear It From You," and solo artist behind Tunes Young People Will Enjoy (2002).
Jesse Vassallo
Jesse Vassallo (Jesus David Vassallo Anadón), Puerto Rican-born American swimmer, 1978 World Swimmer of the Year; set 200 and 400 IM world records, won 1978 Worlds golds, missed 1980 Olympics by boycott, 1997 ISHOF inductee.
Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura, born James George Janos and known as wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura, is a former Navy SEAL and actor who served as Minnesota's 38th governor from 1999 to 2003.
Jesse Walden
Jesse Walden is an American venture capital investor, founder and general partner of Variant, a crypto firm launched in 2020 after earlier roles at Spotify and Andreessen Horowitz.
Jesse Walter Fewkes
Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850–1930) was an American marine zoologist turned anthropologist who became Chief of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology from 1918 to 1928.
Jesse Watters
Jesse Bailey Watters (born 1978) is a Fox News host and conservative commentator, creator of Watters' World street interviews, co-host of The Five, and primetime host of Jesse Watters Primetime.
Jesse White (actor)
Jesse White (Jesse Marc Weidenfeld, 1917-1997), American character actor; played the asylum attendant in Harvey and was the original 'Ol' Lonely' Maytag repairman in 68 TV commercials from 1967 to 1989, succeeded by Gordon Jump.
Jesse Williams (actor)
Jesse Williams, American actor known as Dr. Jackson Avery on Grey's Anatomy (2009-2021), also a Tony-nominated Take Me Out Broadway star, 2021 Oscar-winning producer of Two Distant Strangers, 2016 BET Humanitarian Award recipient, and former Philadelphia teacher.
Jessi (musician)
Jessi (제시), born Jessica Hyun-ju Ho in 1988, is a Korean-American rapper-singer; 2005 debut as Jessica H.O., Unpretty Rapstar runner-up 2015, hits "Nunu Nana" and "Zoom", first P Nation artist.
Jessi Colter
Jessi Colter (Mirriam Johnson, born 1943) is an American country singer-songwriter, wife of Duane Eddy then Waylon Jennings, whose "I'm Not Lisa" hit No. 1 country in 1975 and who was the only woman on Wanted! The Outlaws.