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John Bell (Tennessee politician)
John Bell (1796/1797–1869), Tennessee Whig leader, was Speaker of the U.S. House, briefly Secretary of War under Harrison, a U.S. Senator (1847–1859), and the Constitutional Union Party's presidential nominee in 1860, carrying three states.
John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood (1831–1879), Confederate lieutenant general and temporary full general, led the Texas Brigade, lost an arm at Gettysburg and a leg at Chickamauga, and commanded the Army of Tennessee in the failed Atlanta and Franklin-Nashville campaigns.
John Belushi
John Belushi (1949-1982), American comedian and actor, original Saturday Night Live cast member, star of Animal House and The Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd; died March 5, 1982, of a cocaine-heroin overdose at the Chateau Marmont.
John Bendor-Samuel
John Theodore Bendor-Samuel (1929–2011) was a British linguist who founded the UK branches of Wycliffe Bible Translators and SIL, and led SIL's work across Africa.
John Benjamin Hickey
John Benjamin Hickey (born 1963, Plano, Texas) is an American stage, film, and television actor; Tony winner for Felix Turner in The Normal Heart (2011), Emmy-nominated for The Big C, and director of Broadway's Plaza Suite revival.
John Benjamin Murphy
John Benjamin Murphy (1857–1916) was an American surgeon in Chicago known for the Murphy button and Murphy's sign, and a founder of the American College of Surgeons.
John Bennett
John Dale Bennett (born 1930, Grand Forks, North Dakota) is an American long jumper, 1956 Melbourne Olympic silver medalist (7.68 m behind Greg Bell), two-time NCAA champion for Marquette, and 1955 Pan American Games relay gold medalist.
John Bennett (racing driver)
John Bennett (born 2003) is a British racing driver in the FIA Formula 2 Championship with Trident in 2026; first driver to graduate directly from GB3 to F2, with a maiden F2 sprint win at Spielberg in 2026. Not the American endurance racer Jon Bennett.
John Bennett Perry
John Bennett Perry (born 1941) is an American actor and singer, the Old Spice "sailor" of 1970s-80s commercials, with roles in 240-Robert, Falcon Crest, and Fools Rush In, and father of actor Matthew Perry.
John Bennett Ramsey
John Bennett Ramsey, American computer executive and father of JonBenét Ramsey, found her body in their Boulder home in 1996, was a main investigation target, then exonerated by DNA in 2008.
John Beradino
John Beradino (born John Berardino, 1917-1996), American MLB infielder for the Browns, Indians, and Pirates (1939-1952, 1948 World Series) who became Dr. Steve Hardy on General Hospital for 33 years.
John Berchmans
John Berchmans (Jan Berchmans) was a Jesuit scholastic from Diest, Brabant, who died in Rome in 1621 at age 22 and was canonized a saint in 1888.
John Bercow
John Bercow, British politician, 157th Speaker of the House of Commons 2009-2019, Conservative MP for Buckingham, known for Brexit-era rulings, 2021 Labour defection, and 2022 bullying findings.
John Beresford
John Beresford (1866-1944), 5th Baron Decies, British army officer and polo player who won 1900 Olympic polo gold with Foxhunters Hurlingham; also the name of a 1966-born English footballer and rower Jack Beresford.
John Berger
John Berger (1926–2017), British writer, painter, and Marxist art critic; author of Ways of Seeing (1972 BBC series and book) and Booker Prize-winning novel G.; collaborator of photographer Jean Mohr; settled in Quincy, French Alps.
John Bergeron
John Bergeron is a Canadian cell biologist at McGill University known for discovering the calnexin cycle and pioneering organellar proteomics, and appointed to the Order of Canada.
John Berman
John Berman (born 1972, Carlisle, Massachusetts) is an Emmy-winning CNN anchor co-anchoring CNN News Central weekdays 9am-12pm ET; formerly ABC News (17 years) and co-anchor of New Day and Early Start.
John Bernecker
John Bernecker (1984-2017) was an American stunt performer with over 90 credits who died falling about 22 feet from a balcony while rehearsing a Walking Dead fight scene; his family won an $8.6 million verdict.
John Berryman
John Berryman, born John Allyn Smith, Jr., was an American confessional poet whose 385-poem sequence The Dream Songs won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
John Berton
John Berton is a venture capital investor who co-founded Georgian in Toronto in 2008 with Justin LaFayette and Simon Chong, leading its investor relations and capital formation.
John Bessler
John D. Bessler is an American law professor at the University of Baltimore and Georgetown, author of 12 books on the death penalty, Eighth Amendment, and Beccaria, arguing executions are torture under international law.
John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984), English poet, broadcaster, and conservationist, UK Poet Laureate 1972–1984; author of Collected Poems (1958), which sold over 100,000 copies, and champion of Victorian architecture.
John Bevere
John Bevere is an American charismatic Christian author, speaker, and minister who co-founded Messenger International with his wife Lisa in 1990, best known for The Bait of Satan.
John Biby
John Edward Biby Jr. (1912–2002), American sailor and Douglas Aircraft executive; won 1932 Los Angeles Olympics 8-metre class gold aboard Owen Churchill's Angelita; also known as John Biby.
John Biddle
John Biddle (1615–1662) was an English lay theologian who denied the Trinity from Scripture, was repeatedly imprisoned and exiled, and is remembered as the father of English Unitarianism.
John Billingsley
John Billingsley (born 1960, Media, Pennsylvania) is an American character actor, also known as John A. Billingsley, who played Dr. Phlox in all 98 episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005), with later roles in True Blood, The Nine, and Pam & Tommy, and charity work with the Hollywood Food Coalition.
John Bindon
John Bindon (1943-1993), nicknamed Biffo, was a British actor and bodyguard typecast as London gangland heavies in Poor Cow, Performance, Get Carter and Quadrophenia, and bodyguard for Led Zeppelin.
John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan, Lucky Lucan), British aristocrat and gambler who vanished in 1974 after nanny Sandra Rivett's murder; named killer at the 1975 inquest, declared dead 1999, death certificate 2016, body never found.
John Birch (missionary)
John Birch (1918–1945), American Baptist missionary to China and OSS intelligence officer, killed by Communist troops near Xuzhou on August 25, 1945; namesake of Robert Welch's 1958 John Birch Society, which he never joined.
John Birch Society
The John Birch Society (JBS), founded by Robert Welch on December 9, 1958, in Indianapolis, is an American anti-communist membership organization named for Captain John Birch, known for claims of communist infiltration of the U.S. government, including that Eisenhower was a communist agent.