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Jo-Ann Stores
Jo-Ann Stores, later JOANN, was an American fabric and crafts retailer founded in 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Fabric Shop. It closed all about 800 stores in 2025 after two bankruptcies; Michaels bought its IP and brands.
Jo-Annes de Bat
Jo-Annes de Bat is a Dutch Christian Democratic Appeal politician who became State Secretary for Climate and Green Growth in 2026, after serving in Zeeland's provincial executive.
Jo-no-mai
Jo-no-mai (序の舞) is a 1936 nihonga painting by the Kyoto artist Uemura Shōen showing a young woman in kimono dancing the slowest section of a Noh dance, held in Tokyo.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player born 1985 in Le Mans; 2008 Australian Open finalist, 18 ATP titles, two Masters 1000, career-high No. 5, Olympic doubles silver 2012, Davis Cup 2018, retired 2022.
Joab
Joab, Hebrew יוֹאָב (Yoab), son of Zeruiah and nephew of David, was commander of King David's army around 1000 BC, capturing Jerusalem and later executed on Solomon's orders.
Joachim
Joachim (Hebrew Yehoyakim, Greek Iōakeim) is a given name meaning "Yahweh prepares." Best known as Saint Joachim, father of Mary in the Protoevangelium of James, and as Joachim of Fiore, the Calabrian apocalyptic abbot.
Joachim Andersen (footballer)
Joachim Christian Andersen (born 1996) is a Danish centre-back for Fulham and Denmark; formerly Twente, Sampdoria, Lyon, Crystal Palace; over 40 caps, Euro 2020 semi-finalist.
Joachim Ante
Joachim Ante, known as Joe Ante, is a German programmer who co-founded Unity Technologies in Copenhagen in 2004 and served as its chief technology officer.
Joachim Balke
Joachim Ludwig "Jochen" Balke (1917–1944), German breaststroke swimmer of SV Westfalen Dortmund; sixth in the 200 m breaststroke at Berlin 1936, 1938 European champion, and 100 m breaststroke world best of 1:09.5 in 1938; missing in action near Veliky Novgorod in 1944.
Joachim Barrande
Joachim Barrande (1799–1883) was a French geologist and paleontologist who settled in Prague after the 1830 July Revolution and spent decades describing Bohemia's Early Palaeozoic fossils in his 22-volume Système silurien.
Joachim Buchner
Joachim Buchner (Joachim "Jochen" Büchner), German 400 m sprinter, born 1905 Altenburg, died 1978 Leverkusen; 1928 Olympic 400 m bronze medalist, German record holder 47.8 s, distinct from the Austrian skier and the musician of the same name.
Joachim Burgdörfer
Joachim Burgdörfer is an Austrian theoretical atomic physicist, professor at TU Wien since 1997, known for the over-the-barrier model of ion neutralization and attosecond photoemission delays.
Joachim Camerarius
Joachim Camerarius (1500–1574) was a German humanist, classical philologist, and Lutheran reformer, counted the most distinguished German philologist of the 16th century after Erasmus and a close collaborator of Philipp Melanchthon.
Joachim Chreptowicz
Joachim Litawor Chreptowicz (1729–1812) was a Polish-Lithuanian statesman who served as the last Grand Chancellor of Lithuania and helped found the Commission of National Education, Europe's first state ministry of education.
Joachim Christian Gass
Joachim Christian Gass (1766–1831) was a German Protestant theologian who served as a garrison preacher, a deacon in Berlin, and from 1811 as professor of theology in Breslau.
Joachim Dreifke
Joachim Dreifke (born 1952, Greifswald) is a German rower who competed for East Germany, Olympic gold in double sculls 1980 with Klaus Kröppelien, bronze single sculls 1976, four world titles, later a coach.
Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank, born 1940 in Siegen, Germany, is a German-born American biophysicist at Columbia University who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy.
Joachim Gauck
Joachim Gauck (born 1940, Rostock), also known as a former Lutheran pastor and GDR civil-rights activist, was the 11th Federal President of Germany 2012–2017 and headed the Stasi files agency 1990–2000.
Joachim Herz
Joachim Herz is a German-born physician-scientist and molecular biologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for discovering LRP and showing that LDL receptor family members transmit Reelin signals in the brain.
Joachim I
Joachim I (Ιωακείμ Α΄), born around 1468, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople under Sultan Bayezid II, serving from 1498 to 1502 and again in 1504 before dying that autumn.
Joachim I Nestor of Brandenburg
Joachim I Nestor, a member of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was Elector of Brandenburg from 1499 to 1535, known for consolidating electoral power and opposing the Reformation.
Joachim II
Joachim II, born John Kokkodes (Ιωάννης Κοκκώδης) on Chios, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1860–1863 and 1873–1878, dying in office in 1878 after presiding over the 1872 condemnation of phyletism.
Joachim III
Joachim III (Ιωακείμ Γ΄), born Christos Devetzis, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in two terms, 1878 to 1884 and 1901 to 1912, and issued the 1902 encyclical founding modern Orthodox ecumenism.
Joachim IV
Joachim IV (Ιωακείμ Δ΄), born Nikolaos Krusouloudis on Chios, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1884 to 1886, recognized the Romanian Church's independence, and died in 1887.
Joachim Justus Breithaupt
Joachim Justus Breithaupt (1658–1732) was a German Lutheran theologian, first to accept the call to Halle's new theological faculty in 1691 and judged the first systematic theologian of Pietism.
Joachim Kayi Sanda
Joachim Kayi Sanda (born 2006, Antony, France) is a French centre-back at Southampton, signed from Valenciennes in January 2025; former France U17 captain, runner-up at Euro 2023 and the 2023 U17 World Cup.
Joachim Kroll
Joachim Kroll, the "Menschenfresser von Duisburg" or Ruhr Cannibal, was a German serial killer active 1955–1976, convicted in 1982 of eight murders and one attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Joachim Kunz
Joachim Kunz (born 1959, Stollberg, Saxony) is an East German weightlifter, 1988 Seoul Olympic lightweight (67.5 kg) champion after Angel Genchev's doping disqualification, and 1980 Moscow silver medalist; the only GDR weightlifting Olympic gold medalist.
Joachim L Heinzl
Joachim Heinzl is a German mechanical engineer who developed the commercial Siemens PT80i inkjet printer and became an international member of the United States National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
Joachim L. Schultze
Joachim L. Schultze is a German immunologist, Scientific Director of the DZNE in Bonn since 2026, known for coordinating the COVID-19 OMICS Initiative and swarm learning.