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Jiong Lu
Jiong Lu (吕炯) is a Singapore-based chemist and professor at the National University of Singapore known for atomically precise work on graphene nanoribbons, quantum antidots, and single-atom catalysts.
JioPhone
JioPhone is a line of 4G VoLTE feature phones sold by Reliance's Jio brand in India, unveiled in July 2017 at an effective price of zero against a refundable deposit.
JioSaavn
JioSaavn (Jiosaavn.com) is an Indian music and podcast streaming service owned by Reliance Industries, formed in 2018 by merging Saavn with JioMusic, with over 100 million monthly users.
Jiparaná
Jiparaná (Ji-Paraná, also rio Machado) is a 972-km river in Rondônia, Brazil, a tributary of the Madeira in the Amazon basin. Its 75,400 km² basin is heavily deforested in the south, with pasture area strongly predicting river chemistry.
Jippensha Ikku
Jippensha Ikku (十返舎一九, 1765–1831) was a Japanese comic-fiction writer of the late Edo period, author of the bestselling Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige about the travelers Yaji and Kita.
Jipsabu
Jipsabu (집사부, 執事部) was the central administrative office of the Korean kingdom of Silla, established in 651 under Queen Jindeok to handle royal confidential affairs, and renamed Jipsaseong in 829.
Jira (software)
Jira, also known as Atlassian Jira, is a work tracking and project management tool by Atlassian, launched in 2002 as a bug tracker and now used for project management.
Jira Service Management
Jira Service Management is Atlassian's ITSM product, built on Jira, launched as Jira Service Desk in 2013 and renamed in 2020 to track and resolve requests.
Jirai-kei and ryōsan-gata fashion
Jirai-kei (地雷系, landmine style) and ryōsan-gata (量産型, mass-produced type) are related Japanese youth fashions: jirai-kei mixes black-pink girly clothes with sick-cute crying makeup, born in Kabukichō; ryōsan-gata is trend-conforming sweet girly dress for oshi-katsu, now spreading to China and Western e-commerce.
Jiraiya (gene)
Jiraiya (tmem221, jry) is a vertebrate membrane-protein gene identified by Yoshiki Sasai's RIKEN group in Xenopus; it limits BMP signaling by binding BMPRII's EVNNNG tail motif and removing it from the cell surface during neuroectoderm patterning.
Jiraiya (児雷也)
Jiraiya (児雷也, also 自来也) is a toad-magic thief hero of Edo Japanese fiction, from the Chinese Xieshi bandit through the 1839 gōkan Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari, kabuki, Japan's first tokusatsu film, and Naruto's Sannin.
Jiraiya (自来也) (Naruto)
Jiraiya (自来也), the Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku, is a Legendary Sannin in Naruto who mentored Minato, Nagato, and Naruto Uzumaki, taught Naruto the Rasengan, and died fighting Pain, leaving a coded message. Distinct from the folktale hero Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari.
Jirakadi Modaka
Jirakadi Modaka (जीरकादि मोदक), also Jeerakadi Modak, is an Ayurvedic cumin-based confection of 43 ingredients dosed 10-24 g, classically for grahani and atisara and studied for dysmenorrhea.
Jirakadyarista
Jirakadyarista (Jirakadyarishta, Jeerakadyarista) is a classical Ayurvedic fermented cumin-based liquid medicine from Bhaishajya Ratnavali, listed in the AFI (AFI000177, dose 12-24 ml) for digestive and postpartum disorders.
Jiratchapong Srisang (จิรัชพงศ์ ศรีแสง)
Jiratchapong Srisang (จิรัชพงศ์ ศรีแสง), nicknamed Force, is a Thai actor and model under GMMTV, born 1997. Known for lead BL roles as Akk in Enchanté, Gun in A Boss and a Babe, Top in Only Friends, and Arc in Perfect 10 Liners, paired with childhood friend Book Kasidet Plookphol.
Jirau hydroelectric plant
Jirau hydroelectric plant (Usina Hidrelétrica de Jirau) is a 3,750 MW run-of-river power station on the Madeira River in Rondônia, Brazil, about 120 km from Porto Velho.
Jirès Kembo Ekoko
Jirès Kembo Ekoko is a French former professional footballer, born in 1988 in Kinshasa, who played as a winger for Stade Rennais in Ligue 1.
Jiří Bártek
Jiri Bartek is a Czech-born molecular biologist who studies how cells protect their genome and why that protection fails in cancer, leading research groups in Copenhagen, Prague, and Stockholm.
Jiri Daler
Jiri Daler (Jiří Daler), born 8 March 1940 in Brno, Czechoslovak track cyclist, first Czechoslovak Olympic cycling champion, winning the 4,000 m individual pursuit at Tokyo 1964, plus five world medals and 1967 world records.
Jiri Dopita
Jiri Dopita (Jiří Dopita), Czech ice hockey center born 1968 in Šumperk; 1998 Nagano Olympic champion, three-time world champion (1996, 2000, 2001), seven-time Czech Extraliga champion, later briefly with the Flyers and Oilers.
Jiří Drahoš
Jiří Drahoš (born 1949) is a Czech physical chemist and chemical engineer, president of the Czech Academy of Sciences 2009-2017, runner-up in the 2018 presidential election to Miloš Zeman, and a Senator for Prague 4 since 2018, First Vice-President of the Senate since 2022.
Jiří Friml
Jiří Friml, also known as Jiri Friml, is a Czech plant developmental biologist and professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, born in 1973.
Jiri Havlis
Jiri Havlis (Jiří Havlis), 1932–2010, Czechoslovak rower; won gold in the men's coxed four at Helsinki 1952 with Mejta, Jindra, Lusk, and cox Koranda, the first Czechoslovak Olympic rowing gold, plus 1953 European gold.
Jiri Jonas
Jiri Jonas is a Czech-born physical chemist, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who pioneered high-pressure NMR spectroscopy and directed the Beckman Institute from 1993 to 2001.
Jiri Liptak
Jiri Liptak (Jiří Lipták) is a Czech trap shooter, born in 1982 in Brno, who won the men's trap gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Jiří Orten Award
The Jiří Orten Award (Cena Jiřího Ortena) is a Czech literary prize awarded annually since 1987 to authors of Czech-language prose or poetry aged 30 or younger.
Jiří Procházka
Jiří Procházka, Czech MMA fighter, former RIZIN and former UFC light heavyweight champion (32-6-1, 28 KOs). Lost vacant-title fights to Pereira twice and Ulberg; faces Navajo Stirling in Doha, Nov 21, 2026.
Jiri Prskavec
Jiří Prskavec (born 1993, Mělník) is a Czech canoe slalom K1 paddler, Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion and Rio 2016 bronze medallist, multiple world and European champion, coached by his father Jiří Prskavec sr.
Jiri Raska
Jiri Raska (Jiří Raška, 1941–2012), Czech ski jumper for Czechoslovakia; first Czechoslovak Winter Olympic champion, winning normal hill gold and large hill silver at Grenoble 1968; Four Hills winner 1971.
Jiri Slegr
Jiří Šlégr, Czech ice hockey defenseman born 1971 in Jihlava; Triple Gold Club member with 1998 Nagano Olympic gold, 2005 World Championship, and 2002 Stanley Cup with Detroit; later politician and Czech national team GM.