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Jessica Darrow

Jessica Darrow (born 1995, Miami) is a Cuban-American actress and singer, voice of Luisa Madrigal in Disney's Encanto; her song 'Surface Pressure' peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Jessica De Gouw

Jessica De Gouw (Jessica Elise De Gouw), Australian actress born 1988 in Perth, known as the Huntress in Arrow and Mina in NBC's Dracula; later The Crown, OtherLife, The Union, Ladies in Black, Sunny Nights.

Jessica de la Cruz

Jessica de la Cruz is an American Republican politician who serves as Minority Leader of the Rhode Island Senate, representing District 23, including North Smithfield, Burrillville, and Glocester.

Jessica Degenhardt

Jessica Degenhardt (Jessica Doreen Degenhardt, born 2002, Dresden) is a German luger, RRC Altenberg; with Cheyenne Rosenthal she was the first women's doubles luge world champion (2022) and won world titles in 2022, 2023, and 2025.

Jessica DiCicco

Jessica Sonya DiCicco (born 1980) is an American voice actress known as Flame Princess in Adventure Time and Lynn and Lucy Loud in The Loud House, plus Kingdom Hearts II and anime dub roles.

Jessica Dixon Heitman

Jessica Dixon Heitman is an American Democratic politician and Illinois state representative for the 97th district, appointed in July 2026 to succeed Harry Benton and sworn in on July 21, 2026.

Jessica Drake

Jessica Drake (Angela Patrice Heaslet, born 1974), American adult film performer, director, and certified sex educator with Wicked Pictures; creator of Guide to Wicked Sex, Wicked Sensual Care brand strategist, AVN Hall of Famer.

Jessica Dubé

Jessica Dubé (born 1987, Drummondville, Quebec) is a Canadian retired pair skater; with Bryce Davison she won 2008 Worlds bronze, three Canadian titles, and placed 10th and 6th at the 2006 and 2010 Olympics.

Jessica Dubroff

Jessica Dubroff, also known as Jessica Whitney Dubroff, was a seven-year-old American girl who died in a 1996 plane crash near Cheyenne, Wyoming, during a cross-country record flight attempt.

Jessica Durlacher

Jessica Durlacher is a Dutch novelist, columnist, and screenwriter born in Amsterdam in 1961, known for novels about children of Holocaust survivors, including the bestseller De dochter (2000).

Jessica E. Treisman

Jessica E. Treisman is a molecular biologist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies how cells communicate during development using the fruit fly visual system.

Jessica Elzea Kogel

Jessica Elzea Kogel was an American mining geologist who led NIOSH's mining research program from 2016 to 2022 and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Jessica Ennis-Hill (born 1986, Sheffield) is a retired British heptathlete: 2012 Olympic champion (6,955 points), Rio 2016 silver, three-time world champion (2009, 2011, 2015), retired 13 October 2016.

Jessica Eye

Jessica "Evil" Eye, born in Akron, Ohio, is an American MMA fighter; former UFC women's flyweight title challenger (lost to Shevchenko, UFC 238), retired 2022 at 5-10 UFC, 15-11 pro, now signed to BKFC.

Jessica Fletcher

Jessica Fletcher (J.B. Fletcher) is the fictional mystery writer and amateur sleuth of Murder, She Wrote, played by Angela Lansbury for 12 CBS seasons from 1984 to 1996 in Cabot Cove, Maine.

Jessica Fox (canoeist)

Jessica Esther "Jess" Fox, born 1994 in Marseille, is an Australian canoe slalom paddler with six Olympic medals (3 gold), ten world titles, and the record as Australia's most successful individual Olympic medallist.

Jessica Fridrich

Jessica Fridrich, born 1964 in Ostrava, Czech Republic, is a Binghamton University professor known for steganography and camera forensics and for systematizing the CFOP speedcubing method.

Jessica G. L. Clarke

Jessica G. L. Clarke, born 1983 in Akron, Ohio, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York since 2023.

Jessica Gill

Jessica Gill is an American nurse scientist known for developing blood biomarkers for traumatic brain injury and PTSD, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

Jessica Goldberg

Jessica Goldberg is an American playwright, screenwriter, and TV writer, NYU and Juilliard graduate. Refuge won the 1999 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; she created The Path and showran Away.

Jessica Gomes

Jessica Gomes (born 1985, Perth) is an Australian model of Chinese and Portuguese descent, an eight-time Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model (2008-2015), former David Jones face, Korean TV personality, and founder of the skincare brand Equal Beauty.

Jessica González (Texas politician)

Jessica González is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic Texas House member for District 104, first elected in 2018 and chair of the House LGBTQ Caucus.

Jessica González-Rojas

Jessica González-Rojas is an American Democratic politician representing the 34th district in the New York State Assembly since 2020, after leading the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice.

Jessica Green (biologist)

Jessica Green is a biologist, ecologist, and engineer who studies microbial biodiversity, helped found indoor environmental microbiology, and has been an ARPA-H program manager since 2023.

Jessica Gunning

Jessica Gunning (born 1986, Holmfirth, England) is an English actress and writer who won an Emmy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG, Critics' Choice and Independent Spirit Award for playing Martha in Netflix's Baby Reindeer, and stars in Feral.

Jessica Hagedorn

Jessica Hagedorn, born Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, is a Filipino American playwright, novelist, poet, and performance artist best known for her debut novel Dogeaters (1990), which won the American Book Award.

Jessica Hardy

Jessica Hardy (Jessica Adele Hardy Meichtry, born 1987) is a retired American swimmer, 2012 Olympic gold and bronze medalist, and former 50m and 100m breaststroke world record holder who missed the 2008 Olympics on a clenbuterol positive.

Jessica Harper

Jessica Harper (Jessica Randolph Harper), American actress born 1949 in Chicago, star of Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) and De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise; later a children's author, musician, and 2018 Suspiria remake cast member.

Jessica Hart Steinmann

Jessica Hart Steinmann is an American politician and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Texas's 8th District, facing Democrat Laura Jones in November.

Jessica Hecht

Jessica Hecht (born 1965) is an American actress and singer, Susan Bunch on Friends and Gretchen Schwartz on Breaking Bad, a three-time Tony nominee (A View from the Bridge, Summer 1976, Eureka Day) and Obie winner for Admissions.