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J. C. Seamus Davis
J. C. Seamus Davis is an Irish condensed-matter physicist from Skibbereen, County Cork, who builds scanning tunneling microscopes to visualize quantum matter and detected Cooper-pair density waves in superconductors.
J. Calvin Giddings
J. Calvin Giddings (1930–1996) was an American analytical chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah who invented field-flow fractionation and whose 1964 insight led to high-performance liquid chromatography.
J. Carl Pallais
J. Carl Pallais, also known as Juan Carl Pallais, is an American endocrinologist who co-directs the Center for Endocrine Genetics at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
J. Carrol Naish
J. Carrol Naish (Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish, 1896-1973), American character actor of Irish descent, appeared in about 200 films, earned Oscar nominations for Sahara and A Medal for Benny, and starred in Life with Luigi and The New Adventures of Charlie Chan.
J. Charles Jennette
J. Charles Jennette is an American nephropathologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose research defined how ANCA cause small-vessel vasculitis and glomerulonephritis.
J. Christian Gerdes
J. Christian Gerdes is a Stanford mechanical engineering professor known for autonomous race cars and as the first Chief Innovation Officer of the US Department of Transportation.
J. Christopher Clifford
J. Christopher Clifford is an American private equity investor who co-founded Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based middle-market buyout firm, in 1986 after a decade at Thomas H. Lee Partners.
J. Christopher Stevens
J. Christopher Stevens (1960–2012) was a U.S. career Foreign Service officer and Ambassador to Libya, killed in the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attack; namesake of the Stevens Initiative.
J. Christopher Taylor
J. Christopher Taylor is an American research ecologist at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science in Beaufort, North Carolina, known for mapping reef fish with underwater acoustics.
J. Clark Lagarias
J. Clark Lagarias is an American biochemist at UC Davis known for research on phytochrome light sensors, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
J. Claude Bennett
J. Claude Bennett (1933–2024) was an American immunologist and rheumatologist who helped explain antibody diversity and built the University of Alabama at Birmingham into a major research institution as its fourth president.
J. Cole
J. Cole, stage name of Jermaine Lamarr Cole (born 1985, Frankfurt, West Germany; raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina), is an American rapper and producer, first artist signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation, with consecutive Billboard 200 No. 1 albums, the Dreamville label, and the 2026 final album The Fall-Off.
J. Cole discography
J. Cole discography: seven studio albums (2011 Cole World to 2026 The Fall-Off), mixtapes The Come Up, The Warm Up, Friday Night Lights, Dreamville Revenge compilations, live album, and Grammy-winning singles.
J. Curry Street
Jabez Curry Street was an American experimental physicist at Harvard whose 1937 cosmic-ray measurement with E. C. Stevenson identified the muon; he chaired Harvard's physics department from 1955 to 1960.
J. D. Bernal
J. D. Bernal (1901–1971), 'Sage', Irish-born British X-ray crystallographer at Cambridge and Birkbeck College; pioneered protein crystallography with Crowfoot, modeled water structure with Fowler, mentored Nobel laureates Hodgkin, Perutz, Klug.
J. D. Breen
J. Daniel Breen (born 1950) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Tennessee since 2017.
J. D. Chakravarthy (నాగులపాటి శ్రీనివాస చక్రవర్తి)
J. D. Chakravarthy (Nagulapati Srinivasa Chakravarthy, నాగులపాటి శ్రీనివాస చక్రవర్తి), born 1970, is an Indian actor-director of Telugu and Hindi cinema, debuting in Shiva (1989) and known for Gulabi, Satya, and Money.
J. D. Ford
J. D. Ford is an American Democratic politician serving in the Indiana State Senate since 2018, and the 2026 Democratic nominee for the US House in Indiana's 5th district.
J. D. Gibbs
J.D. Gibbs (Jason Dean Gibbs, 1969-2019), co-founder, president, and co-chairman of Joe Gibbs Racing and eldest son of coach Joe Gibbs; made 13 NASCAR national series starts and led the team's expansion.
J. D. Martinez
J.D. Martinez (Julio Daniel Martinez, born 1987) is a former MLB designated hitter and outfielder; six-time All-Star, 2018 World Series champion with Boston, 331 career home runs, and a leading figure of the launch-angle hitting movement.
J. D. Pardo
J. D. Pardo (Jorge Daniel Pardo, born 1980, Panorama City, California) is an American actor, star of FX's Mayans M.C. as EZ Reyes, known for A Girl Like Me, Revolution, and F9.
J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger (Jerome David Salinger), 1919 to 2010, was an American writer whose novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951) sold more than 65 million copies.
J. D. Tippit
J. D. Tippit (1924-1963), Dallas police patrolman in Oak Cliff, killed by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963, about 45 minutes after the Kennedy assassination, at 10th Street and Patton Avenue.
J. D. Vance
J. D. Vance (born James Donald Bowman, 1984, Middletown, Ohio) is the U.S. vice president since 2025, author of Hillbilly Elegy, venture capitalist backed by Peter Thiel, and Ohio senator 2023–2025.
J. D. Williams
J. D. Williams, American actor (born 1978, Newark, New Jersey), birth name Darnell Williams; known for Kenny Wangler on Oz, Bodie Broadus on The Wire, Pootie Tang, Saints & Sinners, and BMF's J-Pusha.
J. Darius Bikoff
J. Darius Bikoff is an American beverage entrepreneur who founded Glacéau, creator of Vitaminwater and Smartwater, and sold the company to Coca-Cola for $4.1 billion in 2007.
J. David Hellums
J. David Hellums, also known as Jesse David Hellums (1929–2016), was an American chemical engineer at Rice University who pioneered bioengineering and studied how shear stress activates blood platelets.
J. David Lambeth
J. David Lambeth is a physician-scientist and Emory University professor credited as discoverer of the Nox enzymes, showing cells deliberately produce reactive oxygen for signaling.
J. David Lowell
J. David Lowell (James David Lowell; 1928–2020) was an American economic geologist from Tucson, Arizona, credited with more copper discoveries than anyone, including La Escondida in Chile.
J. David Neelin
J. David Neelin is a Canadian-American climate scientist and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UCLA, known for work on tropical climate dynamics and precipitation under global warming.