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Joakim Brodén
Joakim Brodén, born 1980 in Falun, Sweden, is the Swedish-Czech lead vocalist, keyboardist, and principal composer of heavy metal band Sabaton, known for his gruff baritone, military-history lyrics, and metal-plated stage vest.
Joakim Dillner
Joakim Dillner is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet who led the Swedescreen HPV screening trial and founded Sweden's National Cervical Screening Registry.
Joakim Holmqvist
Joakim Holmqvist (Holmquist), born 1969, Swedish sprint freestyle swimmer; two Olympics (Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992), short course 4x100 m freestyle relay world record 3:14.00 (1989), and nine European sprint titles.
Joakim Lundeberg
Joakim Lundeberg is a professor of molecular biotechnology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, known for co-developing spatial transcriptomics, named Method of the Year 2020 by Nature Methods.
Joakim Noah
Joakim Noah, French-American center born 1985, won NCAA titles 2006-07 with Florida (Final Four MOP 2006), then starred for Chicago Bulls 2007-2016, winning 2014 Defensive Player of the Year and All-NBA First Team; later Knicks, Grizzlies, Clippers; Bulls Ambassador.
Joakim Strand
Joakim Strand (born 1982) is a Finnish politician of the Swedish People's Party who has served as Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering since 2024.
Joan (TV series)
Joan is a 2024 six-part ITV1/ITVX British crime drama created by Anna Symon, starring Sophie Turner as 1980s jewel thief Joan Hannington, adapted loosely from her 2002 memoir, directed by Richard Laxton, cancelled after one season.
Joan A. Lenard
Joan A. Lenard is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of Florida since 2017, appointed by President Clinton in 1995.
Joan A. Steitz
Joan A. Steitz is an American biochemist, Sterling Professor at Yale University, whose laboratory discovered that snRNPs carry out pre-mRNA splicing, removing noncoding segments from messenger RNA precursors.
Joan Allen
Joan Allen (born 1956, Rochelle, Illinois) is an American actress, Steppenwolf ensemble member and 1988 Tony winner for Burn This, with three Oscar nominations for Nixon, The Crucible, and The Contender, and no Oscar win.
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading, born 1950 in St Kitts, is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer, the first Black British female artist with international success, known for Love and Affection and Drop the Pilot, MBE and CBE honoree.
Joan B. Gottschall
Joan B. Gottschall (born 1947) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1996.
Joan B. Rose
Joan B. Rose is an American water microbiologist at Michigan State University who pioneered Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and led the scientific response to the 1993 Milwaukee cryptosporidiosis outbreak.
Joan Baez
Joan Baez, American folk singer and activist born 1941, star of the 1960s folk revival, Newport 1959, Vanguard debut 1960, civil rights and antiwar activist, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2017.
Joan Bakewell
Joan Bakewell (Baroness Bakewell of Stockport, born 1933) is a British broadcaster and journalist famous as presenter of BBC Two's Late Night Line-Up (1965-1972), BBC Arts Correspondent, Heart of the Matter host, BAFTA Fellowship 2019 recipient, novelist, and Liberal Democrat peer.
Joan Ballester
Joan Ballester is a Research Professor at ISGlobal in Barcelona who quantified over 181,000 heat-related deaths in Europe in 2022–2024 and built heat-health early warning systems.
Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland
Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (c.1379–1440), legitimized daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, wife of Ralph Neville, arranged the great Beaufort marriage alliances and was grandmother of Edward IV and Richard III.
Joan Bennett
Joan Geraldine Bennett (1910–1990), American actress from a stage family; star of Little Women, Fritz Lang noirs The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street, Father of the Bride, Dark Shadows, and Suspiria.
Joan Bennett Kennedy
Joan Bennett Kennedy (Virginia Joan Bennett, 1936–2025), classical pianist and first wife of Senator Ted Kennedy; mother of Kara, Ted Jr., and Patrick; author of The Joy of Classical Music; died in Boston October 8, 2025.
Joan Benoit
Joan Benoit Samuelson, American marathoner born 1957 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine; winner of the first women's Olympic marathon (Los Angeles 1984, 2:24:52); 1983 Boston world record 2:22:43; personal best 2:21:21.
Joan Beringer
Joan Beringer, French NBA center-forward, born 2006 in Selestat; drafted 17th overall 2025 by Minnesota Timberwolves from Cedevita Olimpija; started basketball in 2021 after soccer.
Joan Birman
Joan Birman (born 1927) is an American mathematician at Barnard College, Columbia University, known for her work on braid groups, mapping class groups, and knot theory.
Joan Blackman
Joan Blackman (Joan May Blackman, 1938-2026) was an American actress best known as Elvis Presley's leading lady in Blue Hawaii (1961, Maile Duval) and Kid Galahad (1962, Rose Grogan), and as Marian Fowler in Peyton Place; born in San Francisco, died in Santa Rosa, California.
Joan Blondell
Joan Blondell (Rose Joan Blondell, 1906–1979), American actress of vaudeville origins and Broadway's Penny Arcade, a Warner Bros. pre-Code staple in 40 films by 1935, later an Oscar- and Tony-nominated character actress.
Joan Boocock Lee
Joan Boocock Lee (1922–2017), English-born hat model and voice actress, wife of Stan Lee from December 5, 1947 until her death; voiced roles in Marvel's Fantastic Four and Spider-Man cartoons, wrote The Pleasure Palace (1987).
Joan Brossa
Joan Brossa (Joan Brossa i Cuervo, 1919–1998) was a Catalan poet, playwright, and visual poet from Barcelona and a founder of the avant-garde group Dau al Set.
Joan Brugge
Joan S. Brugge is an American cancer cell biologist at Harvard Medical School known for isolating the Src protein and for work on entosis and breast tissue models.
Joan C. Marini
Joan C. Marini is a medical geneticist who leads the bone and extracellular matrix section at NIH's NICHD, known for discovering recessive osteogenesis imperfecta genes.
Joan C. Williams
Joan C. Williams is a law professor at UC Law San Francisco who founded the Center for WorkLife Law and is known for concepts like the maternal wall.
Joan Capdevila
Joan Capdevila Méndez (born 1978, Tàrrega) is a Spanish retired left-back, Euro 2008 and 2010 World Cup winner with Spain (60 caps), who played for Espanyol, Atlético Madrid, Deportivo, Villarreal, and Benfica.