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Jessie Ware
Jessie Ware (Jessica Lois Ware, born 1984, London) is an English singer-songwriter and Table Manners podcaster; Mercury-nominated debut Devotion (2012), later disco albums What's Your Pleasure?, That! Feels Good!, Superbloom.
Jessie Woo
Jessie Woo, born Jessica Juste in 1990 in Montreal to Haitian parents, is a comedian, BET host, and R&B singer who broke out with the 2017 viral video "Dear Haitian Crush" and her alter ego Cadouskha Jean-Francois.
Jessie's Girl
Jessie's Girl: 1981 power pop single by Rick Springfield from Working Class Dog, recorded at Sound City, two weeks at Billboard Hot 100 number one, Grammy winner, inspired by a Pasadena stained glass class.
Jessika E. Trancik
Jessika E. Trancik is an MIT professor at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society who studies energy technology costs and performance to inform climate policy and clean-energy investment.
Jessika Roswall
Jessika Roswall is a Swedish Moderate Party politician who has served as European Commissioner for Environment since 2024, after being Sweden's Minister for European Affairs.
Jessner lymphocytic infiltration of the skin
Jessner lymphocytic infiltration of the skin, also called Jessner-Kanof syndrome, is a rare, harmless skin condition with recurrent red papules and plaques on sun-exposed skin.
Jessore (যশোর)
Jessore (Jashore, যশোর) is a city and one of Bangladesh's oldest municipalities (1864) in Khulna Division, 275 km southwest of Dhaka, a rail junction on the Benapole corridor with a growing airport slated for international status.
Jessore District
Jessore District (যশোর জেলা), officially Jashore, a district in Khulna Division, southwestern Bangladesh; 8 upazilas, 6,674 sq km, 3,076,144 people (2022), established 1786, home of the Benapole land port.
Jessy Mendiola
Jessy Mendiola (Jessica Mendiola Tawile), Filipino-Lebanese actress born in Dubai, star of Sabel (2010) and Maria Mercedes (2013), wife of Luis Manzano, vlogger, and 2025 comeback actress in Sins of the Father.
Jessy Schram
Jessy Schram (Jessica Schram) is an American actress and singer born 1986 in Skokie, Illinois, known for Jane Doe TV movies, Falling Skies, Once Upon a Time's Cinderella, Hallmark romances, and Dr. Hannah Asher on NBC's Chicago Med since 2020.
Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman (1945–2019), American dramatic soprano and recitalist from Augusta, Georgia; 1968 ARD Competition winner, Met debut 1983 in Les Troyens, five Grammys, Kennedy Center Honor, National Medal of Arts.
Jest (JavaScript framework)
Jest is a JavaScript testing framework running on Node.js, created at Facebook in 2011 and now owned by the OpenJS Foundation, with mocking, snapshot testing, and coverage built in.
Jester
Jester, also called court fool: a performer retained by monarchs and nobles for entertainment, wit, and licensed mockery, documented from 7th-century BCE China to Persian and European courts, declining in the 18th century.
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Jesus bleibet meine Freude) is Bach's famous chorale from cantata BWV 147, added in the 1723 Leipzig revision, set to Martin Jahn's 1661 text on Johann Schop's 1642 melody.
Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba (Manzana y estancias jesuíticas de Córdoba), a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2000 under criteria (ii) and (iv): a Jesuit city block in Córdoba, Argentina, plus five rural estancias (Alta Gracia, Santa Catalina, Jesús María, Caroya, La Candelaria) built 1599-1767.
Jesuit drama
Jesuit drama (German: Jesuitendrama) is Latin-language drama written by Jesuits and staged at their colleges between about 1550 and 1650, blending pedagogy with Counter-Reformation propaganda.
Jesuit High School (Portland, Oregon)
Jesuit High School is a Catholic college-preparatory high school in Portland, Oregon, founded by the Society of Jesus in 1956 and coeducational since 1993, with about 1,300 students.
Jesuit mission in Ethiopia
The Jesuit mission in Ethiopia was a Jesuit effort, conceived by Ignatius of Loyola in 1555, to bring the Ethiopian Empire into the Roman Catholic Church, ending in 1632.
Jesuit mission in Japan
The Jesuit mission in Japan (イエズス会日本布教) was the Catholic mission begun by Francis Xavier at Kagoshima in 1549, reaching several hundred thousand converts before Tokugawa bans ended it.
Jesuit mission of Juli
The Jesuit mission of Juli was a group of indigenous Aymara parishes at Juli on Lake Titicaca in the Viceroyalty of Peru, run by the Jesuits from 1576 to 1767.
Jesuit missions among the Guaraní
Jesuit missions among the Guaraní (reducciones), founded 1609 in Paraguay Province; about 30 towns, peak 140,000 people in 1732, ended by the 1767–68 Jesuit expulsion; ruins at São Miguel and San Ignacio Miní are UNESCO-listed.
Jesuit missions in Baja California
The Jesuit missions in Baja California were a chain of missionary settlements founded by the Society of Jesus from 1697 to their expulsion in 1767.
Jesuit missions in Malabar
The Jesuit missions in Malabar were the Society of Jesus's missions in southern India, a province seated at Cochin from 1605 until the Jesuit suppression of 1773.
Jesuit missions in the Sierra Tarahumara
The Jesuit missions in the Sierra Tarahumara were missionary communities the Society of Jesus ran among the Rarámuri people of Chihuahua, Mexico, from 1601 to 1767.
Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangue
Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangue: paired Guaraní Jesuit mission ruins in Itapúa, Paraguay, UNESCO World Heritage since 1993, Criterion (iv).
Jesuit Missions of Moxos
The Jesuit Missions of Moxos were mission towns the Jesuits founded among indigenous peoples of the Llanos de Moxos in Beni Department, Bolivia, between 1682 and 1767.
Jesuit missions of Paraguay
The Jesuit missions of Paraguay (Misiones jesuíticas del Paraguay) were a network of about thirty Guaraní mission towns in the Río de la Plata region, administered by the Jesuits from 1609 until their expulsion in 1767.
Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
The Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos (Misiones jesuíticas de Chiquitos) are former mission settlements in eastern Bolivia founded by the Jesuits between 1696 and 1760.
Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missoes (Brazil)
Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis, also called the Guarani reductions, a five-site UNESCO World Heritage property (1983) in Argentina and Brazil: ruins of San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Loreto, Santa Maria Mayor, and Sao Miguel das Missoes.
Jesuit Order in Poland–Lithuania
The Jesuit Order in Poland–Lithuania (Towarzystwo Jezusowe w Rzeczypospolitej) was the Society of Jesus branch in the Commonwealth from 1564 to 1773, leading Catholic renewal.