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John Arthur Jacobs
John Arthur Jacobs (1916–2003) was a British geophysicist who studied the Earth's core and geomagnetic field, and won the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal in 2002.
John Ashbery
John Ashbery (1927–2017) was an American poet of the New York School whose collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror won three major awards in 1976.
John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft (born 1942) is an American Republican politician, 79th U.S. Attorney General (2001–2005) under George W. Bush, earlier Missouri governor and senator who lost the 2000 Senate race to the deceased Mel Carnahan.
John Asher
John Asher (John Mallory Asher, born 1971) is an American actor-director known as Gary Wallace in Weird Science and for directing Kounterfeit, Dirty Love, Somebody Marry Me, and A Boy Called Po.
John Ashton (actor)
John David Ashton (1948–2024), American character actor from Springfield, Massachusetts; played Sergeant John Taggart in Beverly Hills Cop (1984, 1987, 2024) and Marvin Dorfler in Midnight Run; died of cancer in Fort Collins, Colorado.
John Aspinall (zoo owner)
John Victor Aspinall (1926–2000), English gambling-club owner and zoo founder; ran the Clermont Club and Aspinall Curzon, financed Howletts and Port Lympne parks in Kent, and founded the Aspinall Foundation for rewilding.
John Aspinwall Roosevelt
John Aspinwall Roosevelt, also known as John A. Roosevelt, was an American stockbroker and the sixth and last child of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
John Astin
John Astin (born March 30, 1930, Baltimore) is the American actor who played Gomez Addams in The Addams Family (1964-66), an Oscar-nominated short-film maker, adoptive father of Sean Astin, and the series' last surviving cast member.
John Auer
John Auer (1875–1948) was an American pharmacologist and physiologist who first described Auer rods in leukemia cells in 1906 and, with Samuel Meltzer, developed intratracheal insufflation anesthesia.
John August Anderson
John August Anderson (1876–1959) was an American astrophysicist and spectroscopist known for ruling diffraction gratings, solar spectroscopy at Mount Wilson, and the Palomar telescope's optics.
John Austin (legal philosopher)
John Austin (1790–1859), English jurist and first professor of jurisprudence at University of London, author of The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), founder of analytical jurisprudence and the command theory of legal positivism, later famously criticized by H.L.A. Hart.
John Avlon
John Avlon (born 1973), American journalist, author, and former Giuliani speechwriter; Daily Beast editor-in-chief 2013-2018, CNN senior political analyst, author of Independent Nation and Washington's Farewell, 2024 Democratic nominee for New York's 1st congressional district.
John Azzariti
John Azzariti is an American anesthesiologist and Republican politician serving in the New Jersey General Assembly from the 39th district since 2024, after serving as a Saddle River councilman.
John B. Anderson
John B. Anderson (1922-2017), Illinois Republican congressman 1961-1981 and House Republican Conference chairman, ran an independent 1980 presidential campaign, peaking at 21-26% in polls before finishing with 6.6% of the vote.
John B. Bell
John B. Bell is an American applied mathematician at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for numerical methods for partial differential equations and adaptive mesh refinement, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
John B. Buse
John B. Buse is an American endocrinologist at the UNC School of Medicine who chaired the LEADER trial, which showed liraglutide reduced cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetes.
John B. Calhoun
John B. Calhoun (1917–1995), American ethologist at NIMH known for rodent overcrowding experiments, the 'behavioral sink', and Universe 25, a mouse utopia that peaked at 2,200 mice and collapsed to zero by 1973.
John B. Clark
John B. Clark, also known as John Bates Clark, was an American neoclassical economist at Columbia University, best known for the marginal productivity theory of distribution in The Distribution of Wealth (1899).
John B. Cobb
John B. Cobb, Jr. (1925–2024) was an American process theologian who co-founded the Center for Process Studies at Claremont and wrote more than 50 books on theology and ecology.
John B. Dixon
John B. Dixon is an Australian physician-researcher in obesity and bariatric medicine who headed clinical obesity research at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne from 2008 to 2020.
John B. Fenn
John B. Fenn, also known as John Fenn, was an American chemist who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing electrospray ionization, which made proteins measurable by mass spectrometry.
John B. Glen
John B. (Iain) Glen is a British veterinarian and pharmacologist who discovered and developed propofol, the most widely used anesthetic, earning the 2018 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award.
John B. Goodenough
John Bannister Goodenough (1922–2023) was an American physicist and materials scientist who developed the lithium cobalt oxide cathode enabling the lithium-ion battery, winning the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
John B. Gordon
John Brown Gordon (1832–1904), Confederate lieutenant-level general from Georgia with no prior military training; later U.S. senator (1873–80, 1891–97), Georgia governor (1886–90), and first commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans.
John B. Hibbs
John B. Hibbs, Jr. is an American physician-scientist at the University of Utah known for discovering in 1987 that cytokine-activated macrophages synthesize nitric oxide from L-arginine.
John B. Hogenesch
John B. Hogenesch (born 1967) is a Dutch-born American chronobiologist who directs the Center for Circadian Medicine at Cincinnati Children's and is known for discovering BMAL1, the master regulator of the mammalian clock.
John B. Larson
John B. Larson, born 1948, is an American Democrat and U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 1st district since 1999, after serving as Connecticut Senate President Pro Tempore.
John B. Little (radiation biologist)
John B. Little (1929–2020) was an American radiation biologist and environmental health scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health whose 1992 experiment launched the radiation bystander-effect field.
John B. MacChesney
John B. MacChesney (1929–2021) was an American materials scientist at Bell Laboratories who invented the MCVD process for manufacturing optical fibers, and won the 1999 Charles Stark Draper Prize.
John B. Nalbandian
John B. Nalbandian, born John Baylor Nalbandian in 1969, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2018, appointed by President Trump.