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John Bird Sumner
John Bird Sumner (1780–1862) was an English Anglican bishop and evangelical clergyman, Bishop of Chester from 1828 and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1848 until his death.
John Bishop
John Bishop is an English comedian, presenter, and actor and ex-pharmaceutical salesman who began stand-up at 35, broke through via RTÉ's The Panel and an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination, and inspired Bradley Cooper's film Is This Thing On?.
John Bisi
John Bisi is an American cancer scientist who co-founded Incyclix Bio in 2020 and serves as its Senior Vice President of Research and Development in Durham, North Carolina.
John Bittrolff
John Bittrolff, Manorville carpenter convicted 2017 of the 1993-1994 murders of Rita Tangredi and Colleen McNamee, identified via familial DNA; appeals cite new DNA excluding him at the McNamee scene.
John Blackthorne
John Blackthorne (the Anjin) is the English pilot protagonist of James Clavell's 1975 novel Shōgun, based on William Adams; played by Richard Chamberlain in 1980 and Cosmo Jarvis in FX's 2024 series.
John Blenis
John Blenis is an American cancer cell biologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for defining the Ras–ERK and PI3K/mTOR pathways that control cell growth and metabolism.
John Blume
John Augustus Blume (1909–2002) was an American earthquake engineer called the father of earthquake engineering; his firm shaped seismic design of Diablo Canyon and Stanford's Linear Accelerator.
John Bluthal
John Bluthal (Isaac Bluthal, 1929-2018), Polish-born Australian-British comedy actor; starred as tailor Manny Cohen in Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, voiced Fireball XL5's Commander Zero, and played Frank Pickle in The Vicar of Dibley.
John Blyth Barrymore
John Blyth Barrymore (John Barrymore III), born 1954, is an American actor, son of John Drew Barrymore and Cara Williams, half-brother of Drew Barrymore; best known as Zeke in Kung Fu (1975), later an acting coach and software developer.
John Bodkin Adams
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983), Eastbourne general practitioner, tried and acquitted of murder at the 1957 Old Bailey trial over elderly patients' deaths; case established the double effect doctrine in English law.
John Boehner
John Boehner, 53rd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (January 2011-October 2015), Ohio Republican congressman 1991-2015, key figure in the 2011 Budget Control Act and 2013 shutdown, resigned under Freedom Caucus pressure and later wrote the memoir On the House.
John Boles
John Keith Boles (1888–1952), American Army colonel and sport shooter; won 1924 Paris Olympic gold in 100m running deer single shot and team bronze, plus nine World Shooting Championship medals (5 gold). Not the actor or baseball manager of the same name.
John Bolling
John Bolling (1676–1729), Virginia planter and House of Burgesses member for Henrico County, great-grandson of Pocahontas through Jane Rolfe; married Mary Kennon, lived at Cobbs, and ancestor of the Red Bolling descendants including Edith Wilson.
John Bollinger
John Bollinger is an American financial analyst and president of Bollinger Capital Management, best known for creating Bollinger Bands, the volatility-based trading bands he developed in the early 1980s.
John Bolton
John Bolton (born 1948), American diplomat and Trump's national security adviser 2018–2019, later U.N. representative; pleaded guilty June 26, 2026, to retaining national defense information, resolving an 18-count Espionage Act indictment with a $2.25 million fine.
John Bongaarts
John Bongaarts, born 1945, is a Dutch and American demographer and Distinguished Scholar at the Population Council in New York, known for the proximate determinants of fertility framework.
John Bonham
John Bonham (1948-1980), nicknamed Bonzo, was the English drummer of Led Zeppelin from 1968 to 1980, known for triplet kick patterns, a single bass pedal, huge Ludwig drums, and the Glyn Johns-recorded sound; his death ended the band.
John Boorman
John Boorman (born 1933, Shepperton) is a British film director of Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, Hope and Glory, and The General; twice Cannes Best Director winner, five-time Oscar nominee, and longtime County Wicklow, Ireland resident.
John Boozman
John Boozman (born 1950) is Arkansas's senior U.S. Senator, a Republican optometrist and rancher who served in the House 2001–2011, won the Senate seat in 2010, and chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee in the 119th Congress.
John Borlase Warren
Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet (1753–1822), was a British admiral, politician, and diplomat who defeated a French expedition to Ireland in 1798 and commanded North American stations in the War of 1812.
John Bosco
John Bosco, known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Catholic priest who worked among the poor boys of Turin, founded the Salesian Society, and was canonized in 1934.
John Bostock
John Bostock, born 1992 in Camberwell, is an English left-footed central midfielder, youngest-ever player for Crystal Palace and Tottenham, formerly of Lens, OH Leuven, and 13 clubs; not the NRL players Jack or Indie Bostock.
John Bound
John Bound is an American labor economist at the University of Michigan known for research on disability insurance, wage inequality, and econometrics, winner of the 2025 Jacob Mincer Award.
John Bowden
John Bowden (born 1956, Lower Hutt) is a New Zealand distance runner and coach: 1986 Commonwealth Games 10,000 m ninth-placer, 4 x mile relay world-best team member, later Athletics NZ selector, Paralympics NZ coach performance manager, and Tauranga-based coach.
John Bower
John F. Bower is an organic chemist working on metal-catalyzed asymmetric catalysis, known for aza-Heck reactions and stereodefined amino acid synthesis, and Regius Professor of Chemistry at Liverpool since 2020.
John Bowes-Lyon
John Bowes-Lyon (1886–1930), Hon. John Herbert Bowes-Lyon, brother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, father of Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, the hidden Earlswood cousins; distinct from the 10th Earl and other namesakes.
John Bowlby
John Bowlby (1907–1990), British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at the Tavistock Clinic, founded attachment theory; wrote the 1951 WHO report Maternal Care and Mental Health and the Attachment–Separation–Loss trilogy.
John Boyd (actor)
John Boyd (born 1981, New York City) is an American actor and son of Guy Boyd; plays Special Agent Stuart Scola on CBS's FBI after Arlo Glass on 24 and James Aubrey on Bones, with film credits Argo and Peppermint.
John Boyd (military strategist)
John Boyd (1927–1997), US Air Force colonel and Korean War F-86 pilot, developed energy-maneuverability theory that shaped the F-15 and F-16 and the OODA decision loop that influenced US Army and Marine Corps maneuver warfare doctrine.
John Boyega
John Boyega (John Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega), British-Nigerian actor born 1992 in Peckham, London; broke out as Moses in Attack the Block (2011), played Finn in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, won the 2016 BAFTA EE Rising Star Award, and starred in Breaking, The Woman King, and They Cloned Tyrone.