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Jofra Archer
Jofra Chioke Archer, born 1995 in Barbados, is an English fast bowler who starred in England's 2019 Cricket World Cup win, bowling the final's Super Over.
Jofre Torrents
Jofre Torrents (Jofre Torrents Salvat, born 2007, La Selva del Camp) is a Spanish left-back, a La Masia graduate who debuted for Barcelona in 2025/26 under Hansi Flick and transferred to Ajax in August 2026.
Jog Falls (ಜೋಗ ಜಲಪಾತ)
Jog Falls (ಜೋಗ ಜಲಪಾತ), also Gerusoppa Falls or Jogada Gundi, is a 253 m plunge waterfall of the Sharavathi River in Shivamogga, Karnataka, with four cascades (Raja, Roarer, Rocket, Rani), regulated by the Linganamakki Dam.
Jōgan
Jōgan (貞観) was a Japanese era name of the early Heian period, from 859 to 877 under Emperor Seiwa; it names the Jōgan period in art history.
Jōgan earthquake
The Jōgan earthquake (貞観地震) was a great earthquake and tsunami that struck Mutsu Province in northern Japan on 9 July 869, drowning roughly 1,000 people on the Sendai plain.
Jōgan eruption of Mount Fuji
The Jōgan eruption (貞観噴火) of Mount Fuji was a fissure eruption on the volcano's northwest flank from 864 into 866, producing the large Aokigahara lava flows.
Jōgan famine
The Jōgan famine (貞観の飢饉) was a series of famines that struck provinces across Japan during the Jōgan era (859–876) of Emperor Seiwa's reign, recorded in the Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku.
Jogaram Patel
Jogaram Patel is an Indian politician, a BJP minister in the Rajasthan government holding parliamentary affairs, law, and justice portfolios, inducted into the cabinet in December 2023 under Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma.
Jögel
Jögel is a Russian sports equipment and apparel brand founded in 2015 by Artur Movsesyan, and since 2023 the technical sponsor of all Russian national football teams, the first domestic brand to hold that status.
Jogen Chowdhury
Jogen Chowdhury (যোগেন চৌধুরী) is an Indian figurative painter born in 1939 in what is now Bangladesh, known for cross-hatched ink and pastel works and awarded the Padma Bhushan.
Jogen Mohan
Jogen Mohan is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician representing Assam in the Rajya Sabha for the 2026–2032 term, after serving as a minister in the Assam government.
Jogendra Chandra Bardhan
Jogendra Chandra Bardhan (1896–1964) was an Indian organic chemist at the University of Calcutta, co-creator of the Bardhan–Sengupta phenanthrene synthesis, a standard named reaction first published in 1932.
Jogendra Nath Mandal (যোগেন্দ্রনাথ মন্ডল)
Jogendra Nath Mandal (যোগেন্দ্রনাথ মন্ডল), 1904–1968, Bengali Namasudra Dalit leader, Bengal AISCF head, Pakistan's first Law and Labour Minister and Constituent Assembly president; resigned 1950 and returned to India.
Jogesh Pati
Jogesh Pati is a theoretical physicist who, with Abdus Salam, proposed in 1973 that quarks and leptons are unified, the Pati–Salam model of grand unification.
Jogging
Jogging: slow, steady running for fitness, 7.1–14.5 km/h. Invented as mass exercise by Arthur Lydiard's 1961 Auckland Joggers' Club; spread to America by Bill Bowerman's 1967 book Jogging; 8 million US road racers by 2005.
Jogi (ಜೋಗಿ)
Jogi (ಜೋಗಿ) is a 2005 Kannada action drama directed by Prem, starring Shivarajkumar as Madesha, a village youth drawn into Bangalore's underworld; a record-setting 2005 Kannada box-office hit with Gurukiran's music.
Joginder Paul
Joginder Paul (Urdu: جوگندر پال, 1925–2016) was an Indian Urdu fiction writer and essayist known for short stories and micro-fiction, and for the Partition novella Khwabrau (Sleepwalkers).
Joginder Sharma (जोगिंदर शर्मा)
Joginder Sharma (जोगिंदर शर्मा), former Indian medium pacer from Rohtak who bowled the decisive final over of the 2007 T20 World Cup final, dismissing Misbah-ul-Haq; later a DSP in Haryana Police.
Jognakhera
Jognakhera is a Copper Age archaeological site on the north-west bank of the ancient Saraswati in Kurukshetra district, Haryana, excavated in 2003-04, where copper-smelting furnaces and slag were found with Harappan potsherds.
Jogye Chongnim at Songgwangsa
Jogye Chongnim at Songgwangsa (조계총림) is the head training complex of Korea's Jogye Order, at Songgwangsa temple in Suncheon, founded by the monk Chinul in 1200.
Jogye Order
The Jogye Order (조계종) is the largest Buddhist order in South Korea, representing Korean Seon Buddhism and operating more than 3,000 temples with about 12,000 monastics.
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Sir Johannes (Joh) Bjelke-Petersen (1911–2005), New Zealand-born Kingaroy peanut farmer, was Queensland's longest-serving premier (1968–1987), led the renamed National Party, abolished death duties, banned street marches, and fell after the Fitzgerald Inquiry and a hung-jury perjury trial.
Joh Makini
Joh Makini, born John Simon Mseke in 1980, is a Tanzanian hip hop rapper from Arusha who broke through with "Chochote Popote" (2006) and founded the label Makini Music.
Johan A. Martens
Johan A. Martens is a Belgian chemist at KU Leuven known for work on zeolites and nanoporous materials in catalysis, adsorption, and molecular separation, and founder of five spin-off companies.
Johan Åkerman
Johan Åkerman is a Swedish experimental physicist and University of Gothenburg professor known for spintronics work on spin Hall nano-oscillators and magnetic droplet solitons, and founder of NanOsc Instruments.
Johan Anker
Johan August Anker (1871–1940), Norwegian engineer and yacht designer, two Olympic sailing golds (1912 Magda IX, 1928 Norna), founder of Anker & Jensen, creator of the Dragon class and the Scandinavian S-rule.
Johan Åqvist
Johan Åqvist is a Swedish professor of theoretical chemistry at Uppsala University, known for empirical valence bond simulations of enzyme reactions and studies of ion channels.
Johan Arvid Hedvall
Johan Arvid Hedvall (1888–1974) was a Swedish chemist at Chalmers who showed that solids react below their melting points, giving his name to the Hedvall effect.
Johan Askling
Johan Askling is a Swedish physician and epidemiologist who is professor of rheumatology at Karolinska Institutet, studying cancer risks in inflammatory disease and drug safety.
Johan Auwerx
Johan Auwerx, born 1958, is a Belgian biologist and professor at EPFL in Switzerland, holding the Nestlé Chair in Energy Metabolism and studying mitochondria, NAD+, sirtuins, and longevity.