All articles starting with J
20,615 articles
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix (James Marshall Hendrix, 1942-1970), American guitarist and singer-songwriter, leader of the Jimi Hendrix Experience; self-taught lefty pioneer of fuzz, feedback, and distortion whose albums Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland transformed rock guitar.
Jimi Hendrix discography
Jimi Hendrix discography: the recorded catalog of Jimi Hendrix, covering three lifetime studio albums (Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland), Band of Gypsys, and the sprawling posthumous catalog under Jeffery, Douglas, and Experience Hendrix.
Jimi Hendrix posthumous discography
Jimi Hendrix posthumous discography: the 85-plus albums released since his September 1970 death, from The Cry of Love and the Alan Douglas years to Experience Hendrix's First Rays of the New Rising Sun and the Valleys of Neptune trilogy.
Jimi Heselden
Jimi Heselden, born James William Heselden, was an English entrepreneur and philanthropist from Leeds who invented the Hesco Concertainer blast wall and bought Segway Inc. in 2009.
Jimi Jamison
Jimi Jamison (Jimmy Wayne Jamison, 1951–2014), Memphis rock singer, Survivor frontman from 1984 ('Burning Heart', 'The Search Is Over'), Target and Cobra vocalist, Baywatch theme 'I'm Always Here' co-writer, distinct from namesake Jimmy Jamison.
Jimi Manuwa
Jimi Manuwa, "Poster Boy" (born 1980, Sacramento; raised in Nigeria and south London), English UFC light heavyweight, 17-6 with 15 knockouts, 6-6 in the UFC, retired June 2019 after a Rakic KO loss.
Jimi Mistry
Jimi Mistry (born 1973, Scarborough, England) is a British actor of Indian and Irish descent, known for Tariq in East Is East (stage and 1999 film), Dr. Fred Fonseca in EastEnders, The Guru (2002), and Kal Nazir in Coronation Street; distinct from Jimmy Mistry, the Indian designer.
Jimi ni Sugoi! Kōetsu Girl: Kouno Etsuko (校閲ガール)
Jimi ni Sugoi! Kōetsu Girl: Kouno Etsuko (地味にスゴイ！校閲ガール・河野悦子) is a 2016 NTV Japanese workplace drama starring Satomi Ishihara, adapted from Ayako Miyagi's Kōetsu Girl novels, about a fashion lover assigned to a publisher's proofreading department; it averaged double-digit Kanto ratings.
Jimi: All Is by My Side
Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013) is John Ridley's Hendrix biopic starring André Benjamin, covering 1966-67 London years; it contains no Hendrix songs because the estate refused music rights, and Kathy Etchingham disputed its violence scene.
Jimin (박지민)
Jimin (박지민; also romanized Park Jimin, distinct from AOA's Shin Jimin, footballer Lim Ji-min) is the BTS main dancer and lead vocalist, born 1995 in Busan; first Korean soloist to hit Billboard No. 1, army sergeant discharged, returned for 2026's ARIRANG.
Jimin discography
Jimin discography: solo releases by BTS member Jimin (지민), including the albums FACE (2023) and MUSE (2024), singles "Promise", "Christmas Love", "Closer Than This", and collaborations "With You", "Vibe", and "Angel Pt. 1"; "Like Crazy" was the first Hot 100 No. 1 by a BTS member as a soloist.
Jiming Hao (郝吉明)
Jiming Hao (郝吉明), born 1946, is a Chinese environmental engineer at Tsinghua University whose work shaped China's air pollution control strategy and technology; he joined the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2005.
Jiming Jiang
Jiming Jiang is a Chinese-American plant geneticist and cytogeneticist, an MSU Research Foundation Professor at Michigan State University known for sequencing the rice centromere in 2004.
Jimingcheng site
鸡鸣城遗址 (Jimingcheng site): prehistoric walled-moat settlement (城壕聚落) in Gong'an County, Hubei, middle Yangtze; provincial protection plan published 2022; distinct from the Qujialing-culture 鸡叫城遗址 in Lixian, Hunan.
Jiminy Cricket
Jiminy Cricket, Disney's invented name for the cricket conscience of Pinocchio (1940), voiced by Cliff Edwards and designed by Ward Kimball; Collodi's unnamed Talking Cricket was smashed by Pinocchio in the book.
Jiminy Glick
Jiminy Glick: Martin Short's fat-suited, obnoxious celebrity-interviewer character, created 1999 for The Martin Short Show, star of Comedy Central's Primetime Glick (2001-2003) and the film Jiminy Glick in Lalawood.
Jimizhou (loose-rein prefectures)
Jimizhou (羈縻州), meaning loose-rein prefectures, were Tang frontier prefectures ruled indirectly through native chiefs, a policy whose developed form the Tang created, possibly with Sui antecedents.
Jimm L. Hendren
Jimm L. Hendren, born Jimm Larry Hendren, is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Arkansas, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Jimma
Jimma (Jima) is a city in southwestern Ethiopia, Oromia Region, seat of Jimma Zone and former capital of the Oromo kingdom of Jimma under Abba Jifar I and II, annexed in 1932; a wet highland coffee-trade hub of about 195,000–283,000 people.
Jimma Zone
Jimma Zone is an administrative zone of Oromia Regional State in southwestern Ethiopia, capital Jimma town, heir to the 19th-century Kingdom of Jimma. It had 2,486,155 people in 2007 (3.64 million estimated 2023) and is a leading Arabica coffee producer.
Jimmer Fredette
Jimmer Fredette, born 1989, American basketball guard; BYU scoring legend and 2011 national player of the year, NBA lottery pick, CBA MVP in China, and USA 3x3 Olympian at Paris 2024, now returning with Team Miami.
Jimmi Simpson
Jimmi Simpson (James Raymond Simpson, born 1975, Hackettstown, New Jersey) is an American character actor known for Westworld's William, House of Cards' Gavin, Liam McPoyle, and a 2018 Emmy nomination.
Jimmie Allen
Jimmie Allen (born 1985, Milton, Delaware) is an American country singer-songwriter whose debut single "Best Shot" made him the first Black artist to open a career with a country radio No. 1; albums Mercury Lane and Tulip Drive, ACM and CMA new-artist wins, 2023 label drop and 2025-2026 sexual assault judgments distinguish him.
Jimmie C. Holland
Jimmie C. Holland, born Jimmie Coker (1928–2017), was an American psychiatrist who founded psycho-oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering, created the NCCN Distress Thermometer, and led the campaign making distress screening standard cancer care.
Jimmie Foxx
Jimmie Foxx, "the Beast" or "Double X" (1907–1967), American MLB first baseman for the Athletics and Red Sox; three AL MVPs, 1933 Triple Crown, 534 home runs, Hall of Fame 1951.
Jimmie Johnson
Jimmie Johnson, American NASCAR Cup Series driver and Hall of Famer, seven-time champion (tied with Petty and Earnhardt) with 83 wins in the No. 48 Hendrick car; final start set for the 2027 Daytona 500.
Jimmie Nicol
Jimmie Nicol, James George Nicol, was an English drummer who replaced Ringo Starr in The Beatles in 1964. His stock phrase "It's getting better" inspired the song "Getting Better."
Jimmie Rivera
Jimmie Rivera, "El Terror" (born 1989, Passaic, NJ), American bantamweight MMA fighter, 23-5 pro, 7-4 in the UFC with wins over Faber, Almeida, and Dodson; now 3-2 in BKFC and a New Jersey police officer.
Jimmie Rodgers
Jimmie Rodgers (1897–1933), the "Singing Brakeman" and "Father of Country Music," was a yodeling blues-country star of the 1927 Bristol sessions with the million-selling "Blue Yodel No. 1"; not the Chicago bluesman Jimmy Rogers nor the 1957 "Honeycomb" singer.
Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer)
Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer), James Frederick Rodgers (1933-2021), American pop-folk vocalist of Camas, Washington, distinct from the country singer of the same name; scored 1957 number one "Honeycomb" on Roulette Records.