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John B. Ohlrogge
John B. Ohlrogge, also known as John Ohlrogge, was an American plant biochemist at Michigan State University who studied plant lipid metabolism and engineered oil crops.
John B. Owens
John B. Owens, also known as John Byron Owens, is an American jurist serving as a Ninth Circuit federal appeals judge since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
John B. Robbins
John B. Robbins (1932–2019) was an American physician-scientist in microbiology and immunology who developed the polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine principle, enabling Hib vaccines that nearly eliminated childhood bacterial meningitis.
John B. Stetson
John Batterson Stetson (1830–1906) was a New Jersey-born hatmaker who founded the John B. Stetson Company in Philadelphia in 1865 and marketed the "Boss of the Plains" cowboy hat.
John B. Taylor
John B. Taylor is an American economist at Stanford University, best known as the creator of the Taylor rule, a standard benchmark for central bank interest rate policy.
John B. Wachtman Jr.
John B. Wachtman Jr., known as Jack Wachtman, was an American ceramic materials scientist at the National Bureau of Standards and founding director of Rutgers' Center for Ceramic Research.
John B. Wallingford
John B. Wallingford is a developmental biologist and professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, known for work on planar cell polarity and birth defects.
John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson (1878–1958), American psychologist, launched behaviorism with his 1913 "behaviorist manifesto," ran the Little Albert conditioning study, was dismissed from Johns Hopkins in 1920, and later led advertising research at J. Walter Thompson.
John B. Weller
John B. Weller (1812–1875) was an American Jacksonian Democrat from Ohio who served in the House, as US senator and Governor of California, and as Minister to Mexico.
John B. West
John B. West (John Burnard West), born 1928 in Adelaide, is an Australian-born American respiratory physiologist at UC San Diego who led the first physiological measurements on Mount Everest's summit.
John B. Whitehead
John B. Whitehead (1872–1954) was an American electrical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, known for research on electrical insulation and for building its engineering school as first dean.
John B. Wong
John B. Wong is an American physician-scientist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, known for cost-effectiveness modeling of hepatitis B and service on the US Preventive Services Task Force.
John B. Zabriskie
John B. Zabriskie (1929–2017) was an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University who headed its Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology and showed that antibodies against group A streptococcus also attack heart tissue, explaining rheumatic fever.
John B.A.G. Haanen
John B.A.G. Haanen, also known as John B. Haanen, is a Dutch medical oncologist who leads immunotherapy at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and won the 2024 ESMO Lifetime Achievement Award.
John Bachar
John Bachar (1957–2009), American rock climber and Stonemasters legend, famous for free soloing Yosemite routes up to 5.13, the Bachar-Yerian, the $10,000 challenge, and the Bachar Ladder.
John Backus
John Backus was an American computer scientist at IBM who led the team that created FORTRAN, invented BNF, and received the 1977 Turing Award; he died in 2007.
John Badham
John Badham (born 1939, Luton, England) is the American director of Saturday Night Fever, Dracula, WarGames, Short Circuit, and Stakeout, a two-time Emmy nominee, author of two directing books, and a tenured film professor at Chapman University.
John Baird (Canadian politician)
John Baird (born 1969), Canadian Conservative politician; Ottawa West—Nepean MP 2006–2015 and Minister of Foreign Affairs 2011–2015 under Harper, previously Ontario cabinet minister, now corporate advisor.
John Baker, Baron Baker
John Baker, Baron Baker, born John Fleetwood Baker, was a British civil engineer who pioneered the plastic theory of structural design and advised the Ministry of Home Security in World War II.
John Balance
John Balance (Jhonn Balance, born Geoffrey Rushton, 1962–2004), English musician, occultist, and poet; co-founder and frontman of experimental group Coil with Peter Christopherson, active 1982–2004.
John Balcerzak
John Balcerzak is a former Milwaukee, Wisconsin, police officer fired in 1991 for returning a drugged 14-year-old boy to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and reinstated in 1994.
John Bale
John Bale, also known as Bishop Bale, was an English Carmelite friar who converted to Protestantism and became a polemicist, playwright, and briefly Bishop of Ossory (1495–1563).
John Balliol
John Balliol (c. 1250-1313) was king of Scotland 1292-1296, chosen by Edward I in the Great Cause arbitration over Robert Bruce, enthroned at Scone; renounced fealty in 1296, surrendered at Stracathro, and died exiled in France at Bailleul.
John Bally
John Bally is an astrophysicist and Professor Emeritus of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for research on star formation, protostellar outflows, and stellar feedback.
John Banner
John Banner (Johann Banner, 1910–1973), Austrian-born American actor and Jewish refugee who served in the U.S. Army, best known as bumbling Sergeant Schultz on Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971), famous for "I know nothing!"
John Banville
John Banville (born 1945, Wexford, Ireland) is an Irish novelist who won the 2005 Booker Prize for The Sea and wrote crime novels as Benjamin Black, including the Quirke series, retiring that pseudonym in 2020.
John Baptist de la Salle
John Baptist de la Salle (Jean-Baptiste de la Salle) was a French priest who founded the Brothers of the Christian Schools to run free schools for poor children.
John Baptist Purcell
John Baptist Purcell (1800–1883) was an Irish-born American Catholic prelate who served as bishop and then archbishop of Cincinnati for fifty years, growing the diocese into one of the largest Catholic centers in the United States.
John Baptist Tolomei
John Baptist Tolomei (Giovanni Battista Tolomei, 1653–1726) was an Italian Jesuit theologian, philosopher, and cardinal, created cardinal in 1712, who helped prepare the bull Unigenitus against Jansenism.
John Bardeen
John Bardeen was an American physicist, the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, for the transistor in 1956 and superconductivity theory in 1972.