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Johannes von Geissel
Johannes von Geissel (1796–1864) was a German Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Speyer and then Archbishop of Cologne, becoming the see's first cardinal in 1850.
Johannes von Kries
Johannes von Kries (1853–1928) was a German physiological psychologist who held the Freiburg physiology chair from 1880 and is known for the duplicity theory of vision and the Spielraum theory of probability.
Johannes von Kuhn
Johannes von Kuhn, also known as Johannes Evangelist von Kuhn, was a German Catholic theologian (1806–1887) who held chairs at Gießen and Tübingen and wrote the Katholische Dogmatik.
Johannes Walther
Johannes Walther (1860–1937) was a German geologist and paleontologist who formulated Walther's Law of correlation of facies, founded modern sediment research and biogeology, and served as president of the Leopoldina academy from 1924 to 1931.
Johannes Wislicenus
Johannes Adolf Wislicenus (1835–1902) was a German chemist and founder of stereochemistry who first synthesized lactic acid in 1862 and later led the chemical institute at Leipzig.
Johannes Zuber
Johannes Zuber, born 1974 in Dresden, is an Austrian-based molecular biologist and Senior Group Leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, studying cancer dependencies through functional genomics.
Johannesburg
Johannesburg, also called Joburg, eGoli, or City of Gold, is South Africa's largest city and Gauteng capital, founded in 1886 on the Witwatersrand gold reef; it is the country's financial hub but faces severe water, infrastructure, and governance crises.
Johannesburg Park Station
Johannesburg Park Station, commonly called Park Station, is the principal railway station of Johannesburg, South Africa, serving Metrorail commuter, Shosholoza Meyl long-distance, and Gautrain services.
Johannesburg water supply system
The Johannesburg water supply system is the bulk infrastructure delivering water to Johannesburg and Gauteng, anchored on the Vaal River and run by Rand Water, established in 1903.
Johannine Comma
The Johannine Comma, also called the Comma Johanneum, is a Trinitarian interpolation in 1 John 5:7–8 found in few late Greek manuscripts and absent from the earliest Greek text.
Johannite
Johannite is a rare, radioactive copper uranyl sulfate mineral forming bright green crystals in oxidized uranium deposits, first found in 1819 at Jáchymov, Czech Republic.
Johanson-Blizzard syndrome
Johanson-Blizzard syndrome (JBS), a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by UBR1 mutations, features exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, nasal alar hypoplasia, hearing loss, dental anomalies, and variable intellectual disability.
Johari Abdul
Johari Abdul is a Malaysian politician serving as Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat, Malaysia's lower house, after nearly 15 years as MP for Sungai Petani and three terms as chief whip.
Johari window
The Johari window, also called the JoHarry Window, is a psychological model of interpersonal awareness with four panes, devised by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in 1955.
Jōhei–Tengyō Rebellion
The Jōhei–Tengyō Rebellion (承平天慶の乱) was a pair of mid-10th-century revolts against Japan's Heian court by Taira no Masakado and Fujiwara no Sumitomo, both crushed by 941.
John "Rambo" Stevens
John "Rambo" Stevens, English music producer and manager, longtime manager, bodyguard, and best friend of John Lydon; produced PiL albums and Sex Pistols/PiL documentaries; died 11 December 2023 of aortic heart dissection.
John (given name)
John, from Hebrew Yoḥanan (Yahweh is gracious) via Greek Ioannes and Latin Iohannes, is a masculine given name spread by John the Baptist and the Evangelist; once a fifth of English boys, now declining (US peak 1947, E&W peak 1914).
John (ジョン) (musician)
john (ジョン) is a Japanese Vocaloid producer who debuted in April 2019, mainly using Hatsune Miku; his song Shunran passed 10 million views. As TOOBOE (とおぼえ), his solo singer-songwriter project since 2020, he did the Chainsaw Man ending Tablet and the When Hikaru Died ending Anata wa Kaibutsu.
John 1:1
John 1:1 is the opening verse of the Gospel of John, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
John 3:16
John 3:16, which begins "For God so loved the world," is a verse in the Gospel of John, the most-searched Bible verse and printed on In-N-Out Burger cups.
John 5 (guitarist)
John 5, born John William Lowery (1970, Grosse Pointe, Michigan), is an American guitarist for Mötley Crüe, formerly Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie, and an instrumental solo artist with eleven albums and Fender signature Telecasters.
John A. Assad
John A. Assad is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies how the brain represents visual information, economic value, and decisions to move; he is Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.
John A. Bailey
John A. Bailey is an American energy investor and partner at Yorktown Partners, a private equity firm, where he sits on boards including Carbon Energy and Solar Proponent.
John A. Bargh
John A. Bargh, also known as John Bargh, is an American social psychologist at Yale who studies unconscious influences on judgment and behavior, including priming.
John A. Baron
John A. Baron is an American physician and clinical epidemiologist known for randomized chemoprevention trials in colorectal cancer prevention, including the Calcium Polyp Prevention Study, and professor emeritus at Dartmouth.
John A. Benson Jr.
John A. Benson Jr. (1921–2025) was an American gastroenterologist who led gastroenterology at OHSU and served 16 years as the first president of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
John A. Bevan
John A. Bevan (1930–2007) was a British-born vascular pharmacologist known for work on vascular tone, adrenergic mechanisms, and the cerebral circulation, and as a pioneer of vascular pharmacology.
John A. Bittl
John A. Bittl is an American interventional cardiologist trained at Johns Hopkins and Harvard, known for the 1995 Hirulog Angioplasty Study comparing bivalirudin with heparin.
John A. Bogovic
John A. Bogovic is a computer scientist and image-analysis researcher at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for work on the adult fruit fly brain connectome and OpenOrganelle.
John A. Branda
John A. Branda is an American clinical pathologist and clinical microbiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for improving serologic testing for early Lyme disease.