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Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville State University (Jax State, JSU), public university in Jacksonville, Alabama, founded 1883 as a state normal school; 10,433 students Fall 2026, five colleges, Gamecocks athletics in Conference USA.
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida: consolidated city-county on the St. Johns River, Florida's most populous city proper (1,017,689 est. 2025) and largest US city by land area after the 1968 Duval County merger; Navy, JAXPORT, Jaguars stadium deal.
Jacksonville, North Carolina
Jacksonville, North Carolina: county seat of Onslow County and home of Camp Lejeune and MCAS New River. Population 72,723 (2020 census); incorporated 1842, named for Andrew Jackson; council-manager government since 1953.
Jackup rig
A jackup rig is a mobile offshore drilling unit towed to a site with its legs raised, then jacked down to the seafloor for shallow-water drilling.
Jacky Cheung (张学友)
Jacky Cheung (张学友), born 1961, Hong Kong singer and actor nicknamed God of Songs, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop; 1984 amateur singing contest winner whose 1993 album 吻别 sold over 4 million copies.
Jacky Ickx
Jacky Ickx (born 1945, Brussels) is a Belgian racing driver, six-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner (1969-1982), F1 runner-up in 1969 and 1970, 1979 Can-Am champion, and 1983 Paris-Dakar winner.
Jacky Rosen
Jacky Rosen (Jacklyn Sheryl Rosen, born 1957) is the Democratic U.S. Senator from Nevada since 2019, a former computer programmer and synagogue president, reelected in 2024 over Sam Brown.
Jackyl
Jackyl is an American hard rock band formed in 1991 in Kennesaw, Georgia, led by chainsaw-wielding frontman Jesse James Dupree. Its 1992 Geffen debut went platinum on "Down on Me" (Hot 100 No. 10) and "The Lumberjack," and the band holds Guinness records for 100 shows in 50 days and 21 shows in 24 hours.
Jaclyn Hill
Jaclyn Hill (born 1990), American beauty YouTuber and makeup artist since 2010; founded Jaclyn Cosmetics in 2019, whose lipstick launch scandal preceded the brand's 2023 closure under Forma Brands.
Jaclyn Jose
Jaclyn Jose (Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck, 1963-2024) was a Filipino actress and Cannes 2016 Best Actress winner for Ma' Rosa, the first Filipino and Southeast Asian so honored, known for her 'no acting' style.
Jaclyn Linetsky
Jaclyn Michelle Linetsky (1986-2003), Canadian actress from Montreal, the English voice of Caillou and Megan O'Connor on 15/Love, who died at 17 in a highway collision en route to that show's set.
Jaclyn Smith
Jaclyn Smith, born Jacquelyn Ellen Smith, is an American actress best known as Kelly Garrett on Charlie's Angels, the only Angel to stay all five seasons.
Jaclyn Stapp
Jaclyn Stapp (born Jaclyn Nesheiwat, 1980), American beauty queen, Miss New York USA 2004 and Mrs. Florida America 2008; CHARM Foundation founder and, since February 2024, director of Miss Florida USA and Miss Florida Teen USA; wife of Creed singer Scott Stapp.
Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius, born John Francis Anthony Pastorius III (1951–1987), was an American jazz-fusion electric bassist and composer renowned for his fretless Fender Jazz Bass, his Weather Report work, and albums like Word of Mouth.
Jacob (Lost)
Jacob (Lost): fictional character on ABC's Lost, the ageless protector of the Island, played by Mark Pellegrino. Twin brother of the Man in Black, born of Claudia per "Across the Sea", killed by Ben in The Incident, succeeded by Jack and Hurley.
Jacob (name)
Jacob (Hebrew Yaʿaqov, יַעֲקֹב) is a masculine given name from the biblical patriarch, son of Isaac. Likely from theophoric "El protects"; same name as James; US #1 boys' name 1999–2012, #43 in 2025.
Jacob (יַעֲקֹב)
Jacob (Hebrew: Ya'aqov), also called Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch in Genesis, son of Isaac and Rebekah and father of the twelve sons who become the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
Jacob & Co
Jacob & Co is an American luxury jewelry and watch house founded in New York in 1986 by designer Jacob Arabo, known for elaborate timepieces such as the Astronomia.
Jacob A. Brody
Jacob A. Brody (1931–2014) was an American epidemiologist known for his ALS and parkinsonism-dementia studies on Guam and for founding the National Institute on Aging's epidemiology program.
Jacob Alon
Jacob Alon is a Scottish singer-songwriter from Dunfermline, Fife, whose debut album In Limerence (2025) was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and won them BRITs Critics' Choice and two Ivor Novello Awards in 2026.
Jacob and Esau
Jacob and Esau, also called Yaqub and Esau, are the twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah in the Book of Genesis, whose rivalry over the birthright and blessing made them the ancestors of Israel and Edom.
Jacob Anderson
Jacob Anderson (born 1990), also known as Raleigh Ritchie, is a British actor and musician: Grey Worm in Game of Thrones and Louis de Pointe du Lac in AMC's Interview with the Vampire.
Jacob Arabo
Jacob Arabo (Yakov Arabov, born 1965, Tashkent) is the Uzbekistan-born founder of Jacob & Co., known as Jacob the Jeweler, who built a hip-hop-driven jewelry empire and moved into high-complication diamond-set watches like the Five Time Zone and Astronomia.
Jacob Artist
Jacob Artist (born 1992), also known as Jake Puckerman on Glee, is an American actor, singer, and dancer from Buffalo, New York, who declined Juilliard, joined Glee in season 4 (36 episodes), then appeared in Quantico and films like After the Dark.
Jacob Avigdor
Jacob Avigdor (1794–1874) was a Talmudist who served as Hakham Bashi, Chief Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople, before becoming the community's rav ha-kolel.
Jacob B. Khurgin
Jacob B. Khurgin, also published as J. B. Khurgin, is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Johns Hopkins University, known for work on optics, plasmonics, and nonlinear optical materials.
Jacob Batalon
Jacob Batalon (born 1996, Honolulu) is a Filipino-American actor known as Ned Leeds in five MCU Spider-Man films, star of Syfy's Reginald the Vampire, and returning in Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026).
Jacob Bekenstein
Jacob Bekenstein (1947–2015) was a Mexican-born Israeli theoretical physicist who proposed in his 1972 Princeton thesis that black holes carry entropy proportional to their event-horizon area, founding black hole thermodynamics.
Jacob Bernoulli
Jacob Bernoulli, also known as Jacques Bernoulli, was a Swiss mathematician from Basel who founded mathematical probability, proving the law of large numbers in Ars Conjectandi.
Jacob Beskow
Jacob Beskow (Knut Jakob Beskow; 1876–1928) was a Swedish chemical engineer, inventor, and Right-wing politician who served twice as Minister for Finance, in 1921 and 1923–1924.