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Joan Chen (陈冲)
Joan Chen (陈冲), born 1961 in Shanghai, is a Chinese-American actress and director known for Little Flower, Empress Wanrong in The Last Emperor, Twin Peaks, and directing Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl.
Joan Clarke
Joan Clarke, full name Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray (1917–1996), was an English mathematician who broke German naval Enigma codes at Bletchley Park during World War II.
Joan Collins
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins (born 1933) is a British actress, author, and producer, best known as Alexis Carrington on Dynasty, which made her an international star.
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (Lucille Fay LeSueur, born March 23; year disputed, 1904–1908), American film actress with an MGM career from 1925, Oscar winner for Mildred Pierce (1945), star of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, died May 10, 1977.
Joan Crawford filmography
Joan Crawford filmography: 121 cataloged titles (1925-1970) by the actress born Lucille Fay LeSueur, covering MGM flapper films, her 18-year MGM contract, the Oscar-winning Mildred Pierce, Warners film noirs, and Baby Jane.
Joan Cusack
Joan Mary Cusack (born 1962) is an American character actress, sister of John Cusack, twice Oscar-nominated for Working Girl and In & Out, the voice of Jessie in Toy Story, and an Emmy winner for Shameless.
Joan Didion
Joan Didion (1934–2021), American writer of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It As It Lays, and The Year of Magical Thinking; New Journalism figure, 2005 National Book Award winner, wife of John Gregory Dunne.
Joan Donoghue
Joan E. Donoghue, American lawyer and arbitrator, was a judge of the International Court of Justice 2010–2024 and its President 2021–2024, the second woman in that post and the first American woman on the bench.
Joan Dryden
Joan Dryden, British runner for Ilford Athletic Club in the early 1950s; with Muriel Critchley and Phyllis Green she set the women's 3x880yd/3x800m relay world record (7:00.6, 1952; 6:49.0, 1953) and won the 1952 Southern Inter-County cross-country title.
Joan E. Strassmann
Joan E. Strassmann is an American evolutionary biologist who studies the evolution of cooperation and conflict, first in social wasps and since 1998 in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.
Joan Enric Vives i Sicília
Joan Enric Vives i Sicília, born in Barcelona in 1949, was Bishop of Urgell from 2003 to 2025 and, by that see, Episcopal Co-Prince of Andorra.
Joan Ferguson (Wentworth)
Joan Ferguson, nicknamed The Freak, is the fictional main antagonist of the Australian prison drama Wentworth, played by Pamela Rabe; a reimagining of Maggie Kirkpatrick's Prisoner character, she is Governor, inmate, escapee, and amnesiac returnee.
Joan Folkes
Joan P. Folkes, born 1927, is a biochemist who worked on bacterial protein synthesis and antibiotic action at Cambridge, nominated once for the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Joan Fontaine
Joan Fontaine (Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, 1917–2013), British-American actress; sister of Olivia de Havilland. Won the 1941 Best Actress Oscar for Hitchcock's Suspicion after Rebecca; the only siblings with lead acting Oscars.
Joan Gamper Trophy
Joan Gamper Trophy (Trofeu Joan Gamper): FC Barcelona's annual August pre-season friendly since 1966, honouring the club's 1899 founder; single match since 1997, Barcelona winners 47 of 60 editions, doubling as squad presentation.
Joan Ganz Cooney
Joan Ganz Cooney (born 1929) is an American television producer who created Sesame Street, co-founded Children's Television Workshop in 1968, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995.
Joan Goverman
Joan Goverman is an American immunologist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington known for T cell receptor transgenic mouse models of multiple sclerosis.
Joan Greenwood
Joan Greenwood (1921–1987), British actress with a husky plummy voice; star of Ealing comedies Kind Hearts and Coronets, Whisky Galore!, and The Man in the White Suit, plus stage roles from Hedda Gabler to The Chalk Garden.
Joan Hackett
Joan Hackett (Joan Ann Hackett), American actress of stage, film, and TV; Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee for Only When I Laugh (1981), star of The Group, Will Penny, and The Last of Sheila; birth year disputed (1934 vs 1942).
Joan Harrison
Joan Cynthia Harrison was a South African swimmer who won the 100-meter backstroke at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, the first South African swimmer to win Olympic gold.
Joan Hartley
Joan Hartley is an American Democratic politician serving in the Connecticut Senate from the 15th district, covering parts of Waterbury, Naugatuck, and Middlebury, after 16 years in the House.
Joan Heller Brown
Joan Heller Brown is an American pharmacologist at UC San Diego known for showing that CaMKII drives the transition from cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure.
Joan Hickson
Joan Hickson (1906-1998), English character actress and Tony Award winner, played Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the BBC series 1984-1992, adapting all 12 novels; Christie had endorsed her for the role in 1946.
Joan Huffman
Joan Huffman is an American Republican politician and former Harris County prosecutor and district judge who has served in the Texas Senate since 2008, chairing its Finance Committee.
Joan I of Navarre
Joan I of Navarre (Jeanne/Juana, 1273–1305), first queen regnant of Navarre and countess of Champagne, married Philip IV of France; mother of three French kings and Isabella of France; founder of the College of Navarre.
Joan II of Navarre
Joan II of Navarre (Juana II, 1311/1312–1349), daughter of Louis X of France, was excluded from the French throne but reigned as queen of Navarre from 1328, jointly with Philip d'Évreux until 1343, then as widow.
Joan Is Awful
Joan Is Awful is the Black Mirror season 6 opener (Netflix, June 15, 2023, 56 min), written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Ally Pankiw, starring Annie Murphy and Salma Hayek Pinault in a nested AI-likeness satire of Streamberry and the Quamputer.
Joan Jett
Joan Jett (Joan Marie Larkin), American rock singer and guitarist, Runaways member and Blackhearts frontwoman; 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' spent seven weeks at #1 in 1982; co-founded Blackheart Records with Kenny Laguna; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2015.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: American rock band formed 1979 by ex-Runaway Joan Jett with Kenny Laguna; founders of Blackheart Records; known for "I Love Rock 'n Roll" (7 weeks at Billboard number 1, 1982) and 2015 Rock Hall induction.
Joan K. Austin
Joan Kessner Austin is an American epilepsy nursing scientist and Indiana University distinguished professor emerita who studied epilepsy in children, led the American Epilepsy Society in 2005, and joined the National Academy of Medicine in 2000.