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John Abrams (molecular biologist)
John M. Abrams is a molecular biologist and Professor of Cell Biology at UT Southwestern in Dallas, known for identifying the Drosophila cell death gene reaper.
John Adam Fleming
John Adam Fleming (1877–1956) was an American geophysicist who directed the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism from 1935 to 1946 and led the World Magnetic Survey.
John Adams
John Adams (October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, diplomat, first vice president, and second president of the United States (1797-1801), known for the Treaty of Paris, the Quasi-War, the XYZ Affair, and the Alien and Sedition Acts.
John Adams (British accelerator physicist)
John Bertram Adams (1920–1984) was a British accelerator physicist who directed the construction of CERN's Proton Synchrotron and Super Proton Synchrotron and twice served as the laboratory's Director-General.
John Adams (composer)
John Coolidge Adams (born 1947, Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American composer and conductor, not the presidents or John Luther Adams. Known for minimalism, Nixon in China, Harmonielehre, Doctor Atomic, Pulitzer-winning On the Transmigration of Souls, 2019 Erasmus Prize.
John Adams (miniseries)
John Adams is HBO's 2008 seven-part miniseries, also called John Adams (2008), based on David McCullough's Pulitzer-winning biography, starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, directed by Tom Hooper, and winning a record 13 Emmys.
John Adams (mutineer)
John Adams, alias Alexander Smith, was the last surviving mutineer of HMS Bounty (1789), sole male survivor on Pitcairn Island after 1800, its patriarch and teacher, discovered in 1808, died 1829; Adamstown is named for him.
John Adams Dix
John Adams Dix (1798–1879), New York senator, Buchanan's Treasury secretary in 1861, Union major general commanding Maryland, Fortress Monroe, and the East, later minister to France and New York governor.
John Adams Morgan
John Adams Morgan (1930–2025), American investment banker and grandson of J. P. Morgan, won Olympic gold in the Three-Person Keelboat (6 Metre) aboard Llanoria at Helsinki 1952 and co-founded Morgan Joseph LLC.
John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) was an English poet and cultural historian, author of the seven-volume Renaissance in Italy and a pioneer in the study of homosexuality.
John Addison Fordyce
John Addison Fordyce (1858–1925) was an American dermatologist and syphilologist, professor at Bellevue and Columbia, who gave his name to Fordyce spots, the Fordyce lesion, and Fox–Fordyce disease.
John Adolphus Dahlgren
John Adolphus Dahlgren (1809–1870) was a United States Navy admiral who designed the Dahlgren cannon, the standard guns of the Union Navy in the Civil War.
John Agar
John Agar was an American film and television actor who began in John Ford's 1940s cavalry Westerns before becoming known for 1950s science fiction films.
John Ainsworth Davis
John Ainsworth-Davis (John Creyghton Ainsworth-Davis, 1895-1976), Welsh sprinter and surgeon; won 4x400m relay gold for Britain at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, fifth in the 400m final, later a urological surgeon.
John Aitken (meteorologist)
John Aitken (died 1919) was a Scottish meteorologist and former marine engineer who showed in 1880 that fogs and clouds form on airborne dust particles, and built the first dust counter.
John Albers
John Albers is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Georgia State Senate from the 56th district and chairman of its Public Safety Committee.
John Albert Broadus
John Albert Broadus (died 1895) was an American Baptist theologian and homiletics professor who helped found the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and led it as president from 1889.
John Albert Gardner
John Albert Gardner III is a California murderer and registered sex offender who pleaded guilty in 2010 to raping and killing Amber Dubois and Chelsea King after serving five years for child molestation; his case prompted Chelsea's Law.
John Albrechtson
John Robert Albrechtson (1936–1985), Swedish sailor and 1976 Montreal Olympic gold medallist in the Tempest class with Ingvar Hansson on Virrvarr; also 1966 Star world champion as Paul Elvstrøm's crew.
John Alden
John Alden (c. 1599–1687), Mayflower cooper and Mayflower Compact signer, married Priscilla Mullins, served Plymouth Colony as assistant, treasurer, and acting governor, and inspired Longfellow's 1858 courtship poem.
John Alderton
John Alderton (born 27 November 1940, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire) is an English retired actor known for Please Sir!, Upstairs, Downstairs, Thomas and Sarah, Wodehouse Playhouse, Little Miss, and voicing Fireman Sam; husband of the late Pauline Collins.
John Aldridge
John Aldridge (born 1958, Liverpool), 'Aldo', striker for Newport, Oxford, Liverpool, Real Sociedad and Tranmere; 474 career goals, Ireland's 69-cap forward, later Tranmere player-manager.
John Alexander Dowie
John Alexander Dowie (1847–1907), Scottish-born faith healer and Congregational minister, founded the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion and built Zion City, Illinois, a theocratic planned community, before his 1906 deposition.
John Alexander Moore
John Alexander Moore (1915–2002) was an American evolutionary biologist and embryologist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1963, known for frog hybridization experiments.
John Alexander Simpson
John Alexander Simpson (1916–2000) was an American physicist at the University of Chicago who built the particle detectors that made the first cosmic-ray measurements at Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
John Alf Lennart Agren
John Alf Lennart Ågren is a Swedish materials scientist and KTH professor emeritus known for computational modeling of phase transformations in steels and the Thermo-Calc and DICTRA software.
John Alfred Valentine Butler
John Alfred Valentine Butler (1899–1977) was a British physical chemist whose 1924 kinetic theory of electrode potentials underlies the Butler–Volmer equation; he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
John Alite
John Alite, former Gambino crime family enforcer nicknamed "the Calculator," cooperating witness against John Gotti Jr. at the 2009 deadlocked trial, later Englishtown, New Jersey councilman arrested in 2026 on extortion and loansharking charges.
John Allen Chau
John Allen Chau was a 26-year-old American evangelical missionary killed by the Sentinelese people of North Sentinel Island in November 2018, after paying fishermen to take him there.
John Allen Muhammad
John Allen Muhammad, born John Allen Williams, was a Gulf War veteran who with Lee Boyd Malvo carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing ten; convicted in Virginia and Maryland, executed in 2009.