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John Allen Nelson
John Allen Nelson (born 1959) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer: Warren Lockridge on Santa Barbara, John D. Cort on Baywatch, Walt Cummings on 24, and the title role in the film Hunk; also the Wine Guy on Friends.
John Aloysius Maguire
John Aloysius Maguire (1851–1920) was a Scottish Catholic priest and the second Archbishop of Glasgow from 1902 until his death, leading the campaigns over Catholic schooling that culminated in the Education (Scotland) Act 1918.
John Altman (actor)
John Altman (born 1952, Reading, Berkshire) is an English actor best known as villain Nick Cotton in BBC's EastEnders (1985–2015, 281 episodes); also Birth of the Beatles, Chicago stage tours, musician Johnny Altman; distinct from the composer John Altman.
John Altobelli
John Edward Altobelli was an American college baseball coach who led Orange Coast College to four state titles and died in the 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash.
John Altschuler
John Altschuler (born 1963, Carbondale, Illinois) is an American TV producer and writer, co-creator of HBO's Silicon Valley with Mike Judge and Dave Krinsky, longtime King of the Hill executive producer, and five-time Emmy nominee.
John Amaechi
John Uzoma Ekwugha Amaechi OBE (born 1970, Boston) is a British organisational psychologist and former NBA forward-center who played for Cleveland, Orlando, and Utah, was the first Englishman to start an NBA game, and in 2007 became the first NBA player to come out publicly.
John Ambrose Fleming
John Ambrose Fleming was a British electrical engineer who invented the thermionic valve, the first vacuum tube, and designed the transmitter for the first transatlantic radio signal.
John Amery
John Amery (1912–1945), British fascist son of cabinet minister Leo Amery, made Nazi broadcasts from Berlin, founded the British Free Corps Waffen-SS unit, pleaded guilty to eight treason counts, and was hanged at Wandsworth Prison in 1945.
John Amos
John Amos (John Allen Amos Jr., 1939–2024), American actor known as James Evans Sr. on Good Times and the adult Kunta Kinte in Roots; Emmy-nominated 1977; also The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The West Wing, Coming to America.
John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komenský, 1592–1670) was a Moravian theologian, philosopher, and bishop of the Unity of the Brethren, exiled over forty years and credited as a founder of modern pedagogy.
John and Lorena Bobbitt
John and Lorena Bobbitt: married couple at the center of the 1993 Manassas, Virginia case in which Lorena severed John's penis; he was acquitted of marital sexual assault, she of malicious wounding by insanity.
John and the Hole
John and the Hole is a 2021 American psychological thriller, Pascual Sisto's directorial debut, written by Nicolás Giacobone from his short story El Pozo, in which 13-year-old John traps his family in a bunker; premiered at Sundance 2021, released by IFC Films.
John Anderson (actor)
John Robert Anderson (1922–1992), American character actor of Psycho, The Twilight Zone, MacGyver, and Star Trek: TNG; over 500 TV roles, westerns, and Lincoln and Landis portrayals.
John Anderson (olympedia 61171)
John Edward Anderson (born 24 July 1939, Sydney), Olympedia athlete 61171, Australian sailor, twin of Tom Anderson; won Star class gold with David Forbes at Munich 1972 and placed 11th in Solings at Montreal 1976.
John Anderson (olympedia 78038)
John Franklin Anderson (1907-1948), American discus thrower, Olympedia athlete 78038: fifth at Amsterdam 1928, discus gold with Olympic record at Los Angeles 1932; Cornell athlete, film star, died in Alaska aged 41.
John André
John André (1750-1780), British adjutant general and spymaster under Sir Henry Clinton, negotiated Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point; captured near Tarrytown with Arnold's papers, he was hanged as a spy at Tappan on 2 October 1780.
John Andretti
John Andretti (John Andrew Andretti) was an American racing driver from the Andretti family who won in Indy cars and NASCAR and died of colon cancer in 2020.
John Andrew Pospisilik
John Andrew Pospisilik (born 1976, Vancouver) is a Canadian epigeneticist who chairs the Department of Epigenetics at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, since 2018.
John Angelo (investor)
John Angelo was an American investor who co-founded the New York distressed-debt manager Angelo, Gordon & Co. in 1988, leading it as it grew to $26 billion in assets.
John Aniston (Γιάννης Αναστασάκης)
John Aniston (Γιάννης Αναστασάκης, born Yannis Anastassakis, 1933–2022) was a Greek-born American actor who played Victor Kiriakis on Days of Our Lives from July 19, 1985 until his death, and was the father of Jennifer Aniston.
John Anthony Allan
John Anthony Allan, known as Tony Allan, was a British geographer who pioneered the concept of virtual water, the water used to produce traded food, winning the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize.
John Anthony Osborn
John Anthony Osborn was a chemist who, as a doctoral student of Geoffrey Wilkinson at Imperial College London, was first author of the 1966 paper announcing Wilkinson's catalyst.
John Anthony Walker
John Anthony Walker Jr. (1937–2014), U.S. Navy chief warrant officer, spied for the KGB from 1967 to 1985, leading a family spy ring (Whitworth, Arthur, Michael Walker) that sold naval cryptographic secrets.
John Antoon II
John Antoon II (born 1946) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Middle District of Florida since 2013.
John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot (1667–1735) was a Scottish physician, mathematician, and satirist who served as physician to Queen Anne, created John Bull as the standard personification of England in 1712, and wrote the first significance test in statistics.
John Archibald Campbell
John Archibald Campbell (1811–1889), U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1853–1861 from Alabama, concurred in Dred Scott, resigned to become Confederate assistant secretary of war, and later argued the Slaughterhouse Cases.
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist at Princeton University who popularized the term "black hole" and co-authored the 1939 paper explaining nuclear fission with Niels Bohr.
John Arlott
John Arlott (Leslie Thomas John Arlott, 1914-1991), English BBC cricket commentator 1946-1980, Guardian correspondent, poet, and OBE, famed for the Bradman 1948 call and Hampshire burr.
John Arne Riise
John Arne Riise, Norwegian left-back born 1980 in Molde; Liverpool 2001-2008 (348 apps, 31 goals), 2005 Champions League winner; Norway's record international with 110 caps; later Roma, Fulham, APOEL; retired 2016.
John Arnold (chemist)
John Arnold is a synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, whose laboratory was known for actinide chemistry with thorium and uranium.