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Joanne Emerson
Joanne Emerson is an American scientist who studies soil viruses and their bacterial hosts at the University of California, Davis, and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Joanne Froggatt
Joanne Froggatt (born 1980) is an English actress known for Anna Bates in Downton Abbey, winner of a 2015 Golden Globe and the 2010 BIFA Most Promising Newcomer for In Our Name, a three-time Emmy nominee also seen in Liar, Dark Angel, and MobLand.
Joanne Herring
Joanne King Herring (born 1929), Houston socialite, TV host, and honorary consul for Pakistan, lobbied with Charlie Wilson to fund Afghan mujahideen against the Soviets; portrayed by Julia Roberts in Charlie Wilson's War.
Joanne Jackson
Joanne (Jo) Jackson, born 1986 in Northallerton, English freestyle swimmer; 400m freestyle bronze at Beijing 2008, 400m free world record holder in 2009 (4:00.66 long course, 3:54.92 short course), three Olympiads, retired 2012.
Joanne Kahlenberg
Joanne Michelle Kahlenberg is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of Michigan Medical School known for studies of cutaneous lupus, psoriasis, and keratinocytes as immune cells called cytokinocytes.
Joanne Kurtzberg
Joanne Kurtzberg is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Duke University who pioneered unrelated-donor umbilical cord blood transplantation, performing the world's first such transplant in 1993.
JoAnne L. Flynn
JoAnne L. Flynn is an American tuberculosis immunologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for the macaque tuberculosis model and PET-CT imaging of granulomas.
Joanne Lees
Joanne Lees is the British survivor of the 2001 Stuart Highway attack in which Peter Falconio was murdered by Bradley John Murdoch; she escaped, was the key trial witness, and wrote No Turning Back (2006).
Joanne Linville
Joanne Linville (Beverly Joanne Linville, 1928-2021), American character actress; first female Romulan commander in Star Trek's 'The Enterprise Incident' (1968), romanced Spock; Twilight Zone, Scorpio; co-founded Stella Adler Academy.
Joanne Lynn
Joanne Lynn (born 1951) is an American physician and health-services researcher who has spent her career measuring and reforming care for seriously ill and frail elderly Americans.
Joanne McNally
Joanne McNally (born 1983, County Roscommon, raised Dublin) is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, and co-host of the My Therapist Ghosted Me podcast with Vogue Williams, first Irish comedian to sell out Dublin's 3Arena.
Joanne Nail
Joanne Nail (Joanne Elizabeth Nail), American former actress born 1947 in Spokane, Washington; known for Switchblade Sisters (1975), The Gumball Rally (1976), The Visitor (1979), and Full Moon High (1981), plus Broadway roles in Scratch and Lysistrata.
Joanne Oil and Gas Field
Joanne is an oil and gas field in the UK Central North Sea, discovered in 1981 and produced since 1997 through a subsea tieback to the Judy platform.
Joanne R. Lupton
Joanne R. Lupton (1944–2020) was an American nutrition scientist at Texas A&M University whose research on dietary fiber and colon cancer shaped the 2001 definition of dietary fiber.
Joanne Robertson (artist)
Joanne Robertson (born 1979, Manchester) is a British painter, musician, and poet based in Glasgow, known for Dean Blunt collaborations (The Redeemer, Black Metal 2), solo albums Blue Car and Blurrr, and exhibitions at Company Gallery and Edouard Montassut.
Joanne Rogers
Joanne Rogers (Sara Joanne Byrd, 1928-2021), American concert pianist, widow of Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; Rollins College graduate, Rogers-Morrison piano duo with Jeannine Morrison, namesake of Queen Sara Saturday, steward of his legacy.
Joanne Shofner
Joanne Shofner is an American politician, a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 11 since 2025, after unseating six-term incumbent Travis Clardy in the 2024 primary.
Joanne Simpson
Joanne Simpson was an American tropical meteorologist, the first woman to earn a doctorate in meteorology, who co-proposed the hot tower hypothesis and led NASA's TRMM satellite mission.
JoAnne Stubbe
JoAnne Stubbe is an American chemist and biochemist, the Novartis Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus at MIT, known for establishing how radical intermediates drive enzyme catalysis in ribonucleotide reductases.
Joanne Whalley
Joanne Whalley (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer), English actress of Edge of Darkness, The Singing Detective, Scandal, Willow's Sorsha, and 1994's Scarlett O'Hara; born in Manchester, ex-wife of Val Kilmer.
Joanne Woodward
Joanne Woodward (born 1930, Thomasville, Georgia) is an American actress who won the 1958 Best Actress Oscar for The Three Faces of Eve, earned four Oscar nominations and three Emmys, and was Paul Newman's wife for 50 years.
Joanne World Tour
The Joanne World Tour was Lady Gaga's fifth headlining tour (2017-2018), supporting the album Joanne; opened in Vancouver, grossed about $95 million, and ended with 10 cancelled European dates due to fibromyalgia.
Joannicios I
Joannicios I (Ἰωαννίκιος Α), formerly Metropolitan of Sozopolis, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1524 until his deposition in 1525, when Sultan Suleiman I restored Jeremias I.
Joannicios III
Joannicios III (Greek Ιωαννίκιος Γ΄; Serbian Јоаникије III), born around 1700, was Patriarch of Peć from 1739 to 1746 and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1761 to 1763.
Joannicius II
Joannicius II, surname Lindios, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople four times between 1646 and 1656; arrested over the Patriarchate's debts in 1654, he abdicated in 1656 and died on Kea in 1659 or early 1660.
Joanot Martorell
Joanot Martorell (c. 1410–1465 or 1468) was a Valencian knight and Catalan-language writer whose chivalric romance Tirant lo Blanc, begun in 1460, is a major novel of 15th-century European literature.
João A.C. Lima
João A.C. Lima (Joao Lima) is a Brazilian-born cardiologist and professor at Johns Hopkins who led the CORE-64 coronary CT angiography trial and pioneered MRI measurement of infarct size.
João Afonso (footballer, born 2007)
João Afonso, fully João de Oliveira Afonso, is a Portuguese goalkeeper born in 2007 who made his Primeira Liga debut for Santa Clara in May 2026 and joined FC Porto.
João Almino
João Almino (born 1950) is a Brazilian novelist, essayist, and career diplomat from Mossoró, best known for the Brasília Quintet and elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras in 2017.
João Bernardo Vieira
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira (1939–2009), Bissau-Guinean military officer and PAIGC commander, president of Guinea-Bissau 1980–1999 and 2005–2009; took power in the 1980 coup, was overthrown in 1999, re-elected in 2005, and assassinated in 2009.