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J. B. Bickerstaff
J.B. Bickerstaff (John Blair Bickerstaff, born 1979, Denver) is an NBA head coach leading the Detroit Pistons since 2024, after head coaching stints with Houston, Memphis, and Cleveland; 2026 NBCA Coach of the Year.
J. B. Gunn
J. B. Gunn (John Battiscombe Gunn) was a British physicist at IBM who discovered the Gunn effect in 1963, the microwave oscillation that led to the Gunn diode.
J. B. Hunt
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, founded by Johnnie Bryan Hunt in Arkansas in 1969, is one of North America's largest surface transportation and logistics companies, headquartered in Lowell, Arkansas.
J. B. Kripalani
Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani (जे. बी. कृपलानी), known as Acharya Kripalani, was an Indian independence activist and parliamentarian who led the Indian National Congress as president in 1946–47.
J. B. M. Hertzog
J. B. M. Hertzog was a Boer general and South African politician who founded the National Party in 1914 and served as prime minister from 1924 to 1939.
J. B. Priestley
J. B. Priestley (John Boynton Priestley, 1894–1984), English novelist, dramatist, and broadcaster from Bradford; author of The Good Companions, English Journey, and An Inspector Calls, wartime BBC Postscripts broadcaster, CND co-founder.
J. B. Pritzker
J. B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois since 2019 and Hyatt hotel fortune heir, seeks a rare third term in 2026 against Darren Bailey, touts fiscal record and Trump opposition, and fuels 2028 presidential speculation.
J. B. S. Haldane
J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), British-Indian geneticist and physiologist, co-founder of population genetics with Fisher and Wright, author of The Causes of Evolution (1932), UCL Professor of Biometry, later Research Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute.
J. B. Smoove
J. B. Smoove (Jerry Angelo Brooks, born 1965) is an American actor, comedian, and writer, also Jerry Brooks, Emmy winner for Mapleworth Murders, best known as Leon Black on Curb Your Enthusiasm (2007–2024) and as the voice of Frank the Plant in Harley Quinn.
J. Baird Callicott
J. Baird Callicott (born 1941) is an American philosopher, often credited with founding environmental ethics; taught its first course in 1971 at UW-Stevens Point and is the leading contemporary exponent of Aldo Leopold's land ethic and its extension into an Earth ethic.
J. Barkley Rosser
J. Barkley Rosser (1907–1989) was an American logician and mathematician who in 1936 strengthened Gödel's first incompleteness theorem to require only simple consistency, and later directed computing institutes at UCLA and Wisconsin.
J. Barklie Clements
J. Barklie Clements (John Barklie Clements, 1946–2005) was a Northern Irish virologist at the University of Glasgow known for his work on herpes simplex virus transcription.
J. Barry Cooke
J. Barry Cooke (James Barry Cooke, 1915–2005) was an American civil engineer whose consulting in over 20 countries drove worldwide acceptance of the concrete face rockfill dam.
J. Bennett Johnston
J. Bennett Johnston (1932-2025), Louisiana Democrat in the U.S. Senate 1972-1997, chaired Energy and Natural Resources, shaped U.S. energy law including the 1992 Energy Policy Act, then lobbied.
J. Bernard Calloway
J. Bernard Calloway (Jeffrey Bernard Calloway), American actor born 1974 in Fort Lauderdale; originated Delray in Broadway's Memphis and Ralph Abernathy in All the Way; stars as Terry Carson on The Ms. Pat Show.
J. Bernlef
J. Bernlef, pen name of Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937–2012), was a Dutch poet and novelist whose novel Hersenschimmen (1984), translated as Out of Mind, portrayed dementia.
J. Brent Hiskey
J. Brent Hiskey is an American hydrometallurgist and Professor Emeritus of Mining and Geological Engineering at the University of Arizona, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
J. Brent Richards
J. Brent Richards is a Canadian endocrinologist and genetic epidemiologist at McGill University, known for large-scale studies of bone-density genetics, Mendelian randomization methods, and genetic susceptibility to severe COVID-19.
J. Bruce Beckwith
J. Bruce Beckwith (John Bruce Beckwith, 1933–2025) was an American pediatric pathologist who described Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome and served 30 years as reference pathologist for the National Wilms Tumor Study Group.
J. Bruce Ismay
J. Bruce Ismay (Joseph Bruce Ismay) was an English shipowner and chairman of the White Star Line who survived the Titanic's sinking in 1912 and resigned the following year.
J. C. Barker
J. C. Barker, also known as J. Campbell Barker, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Texas since 2019.
J. C. Bloem
J. C. Bloem, born Jakobus Cornelis Bloem (1887–1966), was a Dutch poet and civil servant whose formally traditional verse made him a classicist in twentieth-century Dutch poetry.
J. C. Chandor
J.C. Chandor (Jeffrey McDonald Chandor, born 1973) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for Margin Call (2011), All Is Lost (2013), A Most Violent Year (2014), Triple Frontier (2019), and Kraven the Hunter (2024).
J. C. D. Prabhakar
J. C. D. Prabhakar is an Indian politician of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam who is Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, elected from Thousand Lights in 2026.
J. C. Davis (American football)
J.C. Davis (born 2003) is an American football offensive tackle from Oakland, California; a Contra Costa, New Mexico, and Illinois left tackle with 49 straight starts, drafted 192nd overall by the New York Giants in 2026.
J. C. Escarra
J.C. Escarra (Juan Carlos Escarra, born 1995, Hialeah, FL) is a Yankees catcher/first baseman who debuted March 29, 2025 at age 29 after Uber driving, substitute teaching, and independent and Mexican league stints.
J. C. Jackson
J. C. Jackson, NFL cornerback, undrafted 2018 from Maryland; Super Bowl LIII with Patriots, 26 career interceptions, 2021 Pro Bowl and second-team All-Pro, $82.5M Chargers deal, traded back to New England 2023, Chargers re-signing 2025.
J. C. Leyendecker
J. C. Leyendecker (1874–1951), German-born American illustrator, painted 322 Saturday Evening Post covers and created the Arrow Collar Man for Cluett Peabody; mentor to Norman Rockwell, partner of model Charles Beach.
J. C. Lodge
J. C. Lodge, also known as June Lodge, is a Jamaican reggae singer and fine artist whose "Someone Loves You Honey" was the Netherlands' best-selling single of 1982.
J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider (1915–1990) was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose 1960 paper "Man-Computer Symbiosis" and ARPA leadership shaped interactive computing and networking.