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Joachim Lambek
Joachim (Jim) Lambek (1922–2014) was a German-born Canadian mathematician at McGill University who founded the Lambek calculus and became a central figure in category theory.
Joachim Lelewel
Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861) was a Polish historian, numismatist, and democratic politician, professor of history at Vilnius University and a member of the National Government during the November Uprising of 1830–1831, later an exile leader in Brussels.
Joachim Lingner
Joachim Lingner, born 1962, is a Swiss molecular biologist known for identifying the catalytic subunit of telomerase and discovering TERRA, and is a full professor at EPFL in Lausanne.
Joachim Löw
Joachim "Jogi" Löw (born 1960), German football manager; Germany head coach 2006-2021, winning the 2014 World Cup and 2017 Confederations Cup, and the DFB's record coach with 198 internationals.
Joachim Maier
Joachim Maier (born 1955) is a German physical chemist known for pioneering nanoionics and for leading solid-state research at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart.
Joachim Marx
Joachim Jerzy Marx, Polish forward born 1944 in Gliwice, 1972 Olympic football gold medalist, Ruch Chorzów champion, RC Lens player and later Lens manager in Ligue 1.
Joachim Mattern
Joachim Mattern (born 1948, Beeskow) is an East German flatwater canoeist, SC Berlin-Grünau, who won K-2 500 m gold and K-2 1,000 m silver with Bernd Olbricht at Montreal 1976, plus five world medals, and later coached German kayakers until 2005.
Joachim Messing
Joachim "Jo" Messing (1946–2019) was a German-born American molecular biologist who developed shotgun DNA sequencing, led Rutgers' Waksman Institute, and won the 2013 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
Joachim Murat
Joachim Murat (1767–1815), Marshal of France and King of Naples as Joachim-Napoleon, was Napoleon's brother-in-law and the Grande Armée's famed cavalry commander at Austerlitz, Jena, and Eylau; he defected in 1814, lost his throne, and was shot at Pizzo in 1815.
Joachim of Fiore
Joachim of Fiore, also known as Gioacchino da Fiore, was an Italian abbot (c. 1135–1202) who divided history into three ages of the Trinity, acclaimed as a prophet in his lifetime.
Joachim of Korsun
Joachim of Korsun (Иоаким Корсунянин), died 1030, was the first bishop of Novgorod, consecrated in 989, who destroyed the pagan sanctuaries and idol of Perun and built the first St Sophia cathedral.
Joachim Pastor
Joachim Pastor is a French electronic music producer and DJ, a key figure in French melodic techno who co-founded the Hungry Music label with Worakls and N'to in 2013.
Joachim Patinir
Joachim Patinir, also Patenier or Patinier, was a Netherlandish painter active in Antwerp, one of the first artists to make landscape the principal element of a painting.
Joachim Peiper
Joachim Peiper, born in 1915, was a German Waffen-SS officer and adjutant to Himmler who commanded armored units of the 1st SS Division before being convicted of war crimes.
Joachim Rademacher
Joachim "Aki" Rademacher (1906-1970), German water polo player and swimmer of SC Hellas Magdeburg; won 1928 Olympic water polo gold with brother Erich and 1932 silver, plus European relay swimming titles.
Joachim Ringelnatz
Joachim Ringelnatz, pen name of Hans Gustav Bötticher (1883–1934), was a German writer, cabaret performer, and painter known for his comic verse and the sailor figure Kuttel Daddeldu.
Joachim Rønning
Joachim Rønning (born 1972, Sandefjord) is a Norwegian film director who co-directed Max Manus and Kon-Tiki with Espen Sandberg, then solo-directed Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean 5, Maleficent 2, Young Woman and the Sea, and Tron: Ares.
Joachim Sauer
Joachim Sauer, born 1949, is a German quantum chemist at Humboldt University known for applying quantum chemical methods to heterogeneous catalysis, especially zeolites, and for his marriage to Angela Merkel.
Joachim Spatz
Joachim P. Spatz is a German materials scientist and biophysicist who directs the Department of Cellular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg.
Joachim Spiess
Joachim Spiess is a molecular neuroendocrinologist known for sequencing corticotropin-releasing factor, the hypothalamic peptide that triggers the stress response, while at the Salk Institute in 1981.
Joachim Spremberg
Joachim Spremberg (1908–1975), German rower of the Berlin Rowing Club, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed fours at Los Angeles 1932 (7:19.0, 0.2 s over Italy), and German coxed fours champion 1931 and 1933.
Joachim Stadel
Joachim Stadel is a Swiss-based computational astrophysicist and professor at the University of Zurich, known for cosmological N-body simulations of dark-matter structure and parallel codes such as pkdgrav.
Joachim Trier
Joachim Trier, born 1974 in Copenhagen, is a Norwegian film director; his films include Reprise, Oslo, August 31st, and The Worst Person in the World (the Oslo trilogy, co-written with Eskil Vogt), and Sentimental Value, the first Norwegian feature to win an Oscar.
Joachim von Braun
Joachim von Braun (born 1950, Brakel, Germany) is a German agricultural economist, emeritus professor at Bonn's ZEF, former IFPRI Director General (2002–2009), chair of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 Scientific Group, and President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences since 2017.
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946) was German foreign minister 1938–1945, negotiator of the Hitler-Stalin (Molotov-Ribbentrop) nonaggression pact with its secret Poland-dividing protocol, and a Nuremberg defendant hanged for war crimes.
Joachim Walther
Joachim Walther is an American engineering education researcher, a University of Georgia professor and founding director of its Engineering Education Transformations Institute, honored with a 2013 PECASE award.
Joachim Werner
Joachim Werner (1939–2010), West German rower with Berliner RC; won gold in men's coxed fours at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for the Unified Team of Germany, plus 1963 European title; distinct from the archaeologist Joachim Werner.
Joachim Westphal
Joachim Westphal was a Hamburg Lutheran theologian and pupil of Luther and Melanchthon who, as pastor of St. Katharinen, defended the real presence in the Lord's Supper against Calvin from 1552.
Joachim Wittbrodt
Joachim (Jochen) Wittbrodt is a developmental biologist at Heidelberg University who studies eye and brain development and regeneration in fish, using zebrafish and medaka as model systems.
Joah (son of Asaph)
Joah, son of Asaph, was the royal recorder of Judah under King Hezekiah, named in 2 Kings 18 as meeting the Assyrian commander about 701 BC.