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Jocelyn Delecour
Jocelyn Delecour (born 2 January 1935, Tourcoing) is a French sprinter, Olympic 4x100 m relay bronze medalist at Tokyo 1964 and Mexico City 1968, 1966 European relay champion, and eight-time French sprint champion.
Jocelyn Field Thorpe
Jocelyn Field Thorpe (1872–1940) was an English organic chemist, professor at Imperial College London from 1914, who discovered the Thorpe reaction and, with Christopher Ingold, the Thorpe–Ingold effect.
Jocelyn Flores
Jocelyn Flores is a 2017 song by XXXTentacion from his debut album 17, named for a 16-year-old who died by suicide while visiting him in Florida; it samples Shiloh Dynasty via Potsu, peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100, and is multi-platinum.
Jocelyn Hudon
Jocelyn Hudon (born 1994) is a Canadian actress from Toronto, a former ballerina at the National Ballet School, known for When Hope Calls as Grace Bennett and as paramedic Lyla Novak on Chicago Fire.
Jocelyn Wildenstein
Jocelyn Wildenstein, born Jocelyne Périsset, Swiss-born New York socialite nicknamed Catwoman for extreme plastic surgery; $2.5 billion 1999 divorce from Alec Wildenstein, 2018 bankruptcy, died Paris December 31, 2024.
Jocelyne Bloch
Jocelyne Bloch is a Swiss neurosurgeon who leads neurosurgery at Lausanne University Hospital and co-directs .NeuroRestore, developing spinal cord implants that let paralyzed people walk.
Jocelyne Lamoureux Davidson
Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson, born 1989 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, is a retired American ice hockey forward, twin of Monique Lamoureux, three-time Olympian with 2018 gold and 2010/2014 silvers, scorer of the 2018 shootout-winning goal.
Jocelyne Larocque
Jocelyne Larocque, Canadian ice hockey defenceman from Ste. Anne, Manitoba; two Olympic golds (2014, 2022) and two silvers (2018, 2026); first Indigenous woman to win Olympic hockey gold for Canada.
Jochebed (יוֹכֶבֶד)
Jochebed (Hebrew יוֹכֶבֶד, Yocheved) is a biblical figure, daughter of Levi, wife of Amram, and mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, who hid her infant son in a basket on the Nile.
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke, born 1959, is a German physical oceanographer and climate modeler who directs the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology's Department of Climate Variability in Hamburg.
Jochem Uytdehaage
Jochem Uytdehaage, Dutch long-track speed skater (born 1976, Utrecht), double Olympic champion at Salt Lake City 2002 in 5,000 m and 10,000 m with world records, first under 13 minutes on the 10,000 m, plus 1,500 m silver; later founded Sporttop.
Jochen Autschbach
Jochen Autschbach is a theoretical and computational chemist who is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, known for density functional theory calculations of NMR parameters and chiroptical properties of heavy-element compounds.
Jochen Babock
Jochen Babock (born 1953, Erfurt), East German bobsledder, ASK Vorwärts Oberhof pusher; four-man gold at 1976 Innsbruck with Nehmer, Germeshausen, Lehmann; 1979 European champion; later Munich Olympic Training Center coach.
Jochen Bachfeld
Jochen Bachfeld (1952-2026), East German amateur boxer from Schwerin, Olympic welterweight gold medalist at Montreal 1976, also boxed featherweight at Munich 1972 and won two GDR titles.
Jochen Blumberger
Jochen Blumberger is a chemical physicist and Professor of Chemical Physics at University College London, known for molecular simulation of charge transport in organic semiconductors and electron transfer in proteins.
Jochen Engert
Jochen Engert is a German entrepreneur who co-founded FlixBus in Munich in 2011 with André Schwämmlein and Daniel Krauss, building it into a global mobility group.
Jochen Feldmann
Jochen Feldmann (born 1961 in Olpe, Germany) is a German physicist, professor at LMU Munich since 1995, known for nanocrystal photophysics, quantum-dot LEDs, and the nano-ear sensor.
Jochen Flasbarth
Jochen Flasbarth is a German politician of the SPD who has served as State Secretary at the Federal Environment Ministry since 2025, after leading NABU and the Federal Environment Agency.
Jochen Guck
Jochen Guck (1973–2025) was a German biophysicist known for the optical stretcher and real-time deformability cytometry, and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.
Jochen Hampe
Jochen Hampe, born 1967 in Dresden, is a German physician-scientist and professor of gastroenterology at TU Dresden, known for the 2001 discovery of NOD2 as a Crohn's disease gene.
Jochen J. Brocks
Jochen J. Brocks, also published as Jochen Brocks, is a German-trained Australian geobiologist and professor at the Australian National University who studies molecular fossils in Precambrian rocks.
Jochen K. Lennerz
Jochen K. Lennerz is a German-trained molecular pathologist who directed Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Integrated Diagnostics, argued for oversight of laboratory-developed tests, and by 2026 worked at Natera.
Jochen Mannhart
Jochen Mannhart (born 1960) is a German condensed matter physicist who works on oxide interfaces and high-temperature superconductivity, and directs a department at the Max Planck Institute of Solid State Research in Stuttgart.
Jochen Pietzsch
Jochen Pietzsch (born 1963, Halle/Saale), East German doubles luger with Jörg Hoffmann: 1984 Sarajevo bronze, 1988 Calgary Olympic gold, world titles 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990 team.
Jochen Reiser
Jochen Reiser is a German-born physician-scientist and nephrologist who has served as president of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston since 2023, known for identifying suPAR as a circulating factor in kidney disease.
Jochen Rindt
Jochen Rindt (Karl Jochen Rindt), 1942–1970, Austrian-licensed Formula One driver for Cooper, Brabham, and Lotus; 1965 Le Mans winner; 1970 World Champion, the sport's only posthumous champion, killed at Monza.
Jochen Rink
Jochen C. Rink, born 1976, is a developmental biologist directing the Department of Tissue Dynamics and Regeneration at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen.
Jochen Schumann
Jochen Schümann (born 1954) is a German sailor who won three Olympic gold medals between 1976 and 2000 and the America's Cup twice with Alinghi.
Jochen Zimmer
Jochen Zimmer is a structural biologist and HHMI Investigator at the University of Virginia who determines the structures of membrane machines that build and transport sugar polymers like cellulose.
Jochi
Jochi (Tuši, ca. 1184–1227), eldest son of Chinggis Khan and Börte, ancestor of the Golden Horde khans; his disputed paternity cost him the succession, and his appanage became the Jochid Ulus.