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Joan Kroc
Joan Kroc (1928-2003), widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, was an American philanthropist whose bequests included $1.5 billion to the Salvation Army for Kroc Centers and $225 million to NPR.
Joan L. Larsen
Joan L. Larsen is an American jurist serving as a judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2017, appointed by President Trump after serving on the Michigan Supreme Court.
Joan L. Luby
Joan L. Luby is a child psychiatrist at Washington University School of Medicine whose research established that depression can be diagnosed in children as young as 3.
Joan Laporta
Joan Laporta i Estruch (born 1962, Barcelona) is a lawyer and president of FC Barcelona, serving 2003–2010 and again from 2021; re-elected in March 2026 with 68.18% for a fourth term running to 2031.
Joan Lefkow
Joan Humphrey Lefkow, born 1944, is a senior U.S. district judge in Chicago (N.D. Ill.), formerly magistrate and bankruptcy judge, known for the 2005 murders of her husband and mother by litigant Bart Ross and her judicial security advocacy.
Joan Leslie
Joan Leslie (Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel, 1925–2015), American actress of Hollywood's Golden Age; star of High Sierra, Sergeant York, and Yankee Doodle Dandy who sued Warner Bros. in 1946.
Joan Llaneras
Joan Llaneras (Joan Llaneras Rosselló), Spanish track cyclist born 1969 in Porreres, Mallorca; two-time Olympic points race champion (Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008) with four Olympic medals and seven world titles in the points race and Madison.
Joan Lovely
Joan Lovely is an American Democratic politician and Assistant Majority Leader of the Massachusetts Senate, representing the Second Essex District since 2013 after 15 years on the Salem City Council.
Joan Lunden
Joan Lunden, born Joan Elise Blunden in 1950, is the American journalist who co-hosted ABC's Good Morning America 1980-1997, the longest-running female early-morning host, later a health and caregiving advocate and memoirist.
Joan M. Azrack
Joan M. Azrack, also known as Joan Marie Azrack, is an American judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York since 2014.
Joan M. O’Brien
Joan M. O'Brien is an American ophthalmologist and geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the genetics of eye disease, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.
Joan M. Teno
Joan M. Teno is an American physician and health services researcher in palliative and end-of-life care, known for the SUPPORT study and the Family Evaluation of Hospice Care survey.
Joan Manuel Serrat
Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa (born 1943, Barcelona) is a Catalan singer-songwriter of the Nova Cançó and Setze Jutges, famous for Mediterráneo (1971), his 1968 Eurovision refusal to sing in Spanish, 1975 exile in Mexico, and 2022 retirement.
Joan Massagué
Joan Massagué is a Spanish-born cancer biologist known for defining the TGF-β signaling pathway and the molecular basis of cancer metastasis, and director of the Sloan Kettering Institute since 2014.
Joan McCracken
Joan McCracken (1917–1961), Philadelphia-trained ballerina and Broadway star; as Sylvie 'The Girl Who Falls Down' in Oklahoma! (1943) she became Broadway's highest paid ensemble dancer, married Bob Fosse, and retired in 1954 with heart disease.
Joan Mccusker
Joan McCusker, born 1965 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, is a Canadian curler, second on the Sandra Schmirler rink that won three Canadian and world titles (1993, 1994, 1997) and 1998 Nagano Olympic gold, later a CBC curling analyst.
Joan Mir
Joan Mir Mayrata is a Spanish motorcycle racer, born in 1997 in Palma de Mallorca, who won the 2020 MotoGP World Championship with Suzuki after taking the 2017 Moto3 title.
Joan Miró
Joan Miró (1893–1983), Spanish Catalan painter and sculptor of Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca; Surrealist-affiliated inventor of a personal sign language in painting, ceramics, and tapestry, creator of The Farm and the Constellations, and founder of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (1975).
Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) was an American abstract painter of the second Abstract Expressionist generation, known for large gestural oil paintings, who left 1950s New York acclaim for France.
Joan N. Ericksen
Joan N. Ericksen, born 1954, is a United States district judge for the District of Minnesota since 2002, appointed by George W. Bush, and a former Minnesota Supreme Court justice.
Joan O'Brien
Joan O'Brien (Joan Marie O'Brien, 1936-2025), American actress and singer; MGM contract player known for Operation Petticoat and It Happened at the World's Fair with Elvis Presley; died May 5, 2025, in San Antonio.
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc, 1412–1431), French peasant visionary and the Maid of Orléans, led French victories in the Hundred Years' War, crowned Charles VII, was burned for heresy at Rouen in 1431, rehabilitated in 1456, canonized 1920.
Joan of Arc (band)
Joan of Arc was an American indie rock band from Chicago, formed in 1995 after Cap'n Jazz broke up, with Tim Kinsella as its sole constant member.
Joan of Arc Battalion
Joan of Arc Battalion was the nickname of the Australian 48th Battalion AIF, a WWI infantry unit, punning on Maid of Orleans as "Made of all-Leanes" after commander Raymond Leane's family; not related to the Russian Women's Battalion of Death or YPJ.
Joan of Arcadia
Joan of Arcadia is an American fantasy family drama series (CBS, 2003–2005, 45 episodes) created by Barbara Hall, in which God appears to teenager Joan Girardi as ordinary strangers and gives her tasks; it starred Amber Tamblyn, Joe Mantegna, and Mary Steenburgen.
Joan of Kent
Joan of Kent (1328–1385), the Fair Maid of Kent, secretly married Thomas Holland in 1340, had a bigamous marriage to the earl of Salisbury annulled in 1349, married the Black Prince in 1361, and was mother of Richard II.
Joan Osborne
Joan Osborne (Joan Elizabeth Osborne, born 1962, Anchorage, Kentucky) is an American singer-songwriter whose 1995 album Relish and hit "One of Us" brought five Grammy nominations; later work spans blues, soul, and Bob Dylan songbook albums.
Joan Pennington
Joan Pennington, American swimmer from Franklin, Tennessee; 1978 World champion in the 100m butterfly (1:00.20 CR), 1980 U.S. Olympic Team member (boycotted), Texas Longhorn, Broderick Award winner.
Joan Pirie
Joan Pirie, American quarter-miler of the Angels Track Club, ran the lead-off leg on the 3:47.8 women's 4x440 yard relay world record at Dayton, 6 July 1969, and won Oregon indoor 440y titles in 1971 and 1972.
Joan Plowright
Dame Joan Ann Plowright, Lady Olivier (1929–2025), English stage and screen actress, Royal Court founder member, Tony and double Golden Globe winner, and Laurence Olivier's widow.