All articles starting with J

John Boyer (plant physiologist)

John S. Boyer is an American plant physiologist known for research on how water status controls plant growth and crop productivity, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1990.

John Boyne

John Boyne is an Irish novelist who has published 22 works in more than 30 years. He is most famous for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

John Bradford Mooney Jr.

J. Bradford Mooney Jr. is a retired US Navy rear admiral and ocean engineer who piloted Trieste II in the 1963 Thresher search and coordinated the 1966 Palomares recovery.

John Bradley (English actor)

John Bradley (John Bradley West, born 1988) is an English actor from Wythenshawe, Manchester, known for Samwell Tarly in Game of Thrones, and for Moonfall, Marry Me, and 3 Body Problem.

John Bradshaw (1602-1659), English lawyer and judge, president of the High Court of Justice that tried and sentenced Charles I; first president of the Council of State, later an opponent of Cromwell; posthumously attainted and hanged in effigy at Tyburn.

John Bramhall

John Bramhall (1594–1663) was a Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh who rebuilt the church's finances, defended royalism in print, and debated Thomas Hobbes on free will.

Sep 27, 2026

John Braun

John Braun is an American Republican politician and Minority Leader of the Washington State Senate, representing the 20th Legislative District since 2012 and running for Congress in 2026.

John Brennan (CIA officer)

John Owen Brennan (born 1955), American retired intelligence officer; CIA Director 2013-2017 under Obama, earlier TTIC and NCTC head and White House counterterrorism adviser; later investigated over the 2016 Russia assessment.

John Breslow

John Avrum Breslow, US Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus from September 2026; Nebraska businessman, Linweld owner, and State Auditor 1991-1999; first non-career political appointee to the Cyprus post.

John Bretland Farmer

John Bretland Farmer (1865–1944) was a British botanist who showed that chromosome reduction precedes fertilization in liverworts and, with J. E. S. Moore, identified common features of reduction division in animals and plants.

John Bridgewater

John Bridgewater (John A. Bridgewater) is a British medical oncologist and Clinical Professor at the UCL Cancer Institute, known for the ABC-02 and BILCAP trials defining biliary tract cancer treatment.

John Briggs (structural biologist)

John A. G. Briggs is a British structural biologist who uses cryo-electron tomography to determine protein structures inside intact HIV-1 and influenza A particles, and directs a department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

John Brigham Ward

John Brigham Ward (1928–2016) was a British-born New Zealand entomologist who specialized in caddisfly taxonomy and worked for many years as a research associate of Canterbury Museum, Christchurch.

John Briscoe (environmental engineer)

John Briscoe (1948–2014) was a South African-born environmental engineer and World Bank water specialist who led its 2003 Water Resources Sector Strategy and won the 2014 Stockholm Water Prize.

Sep 27, 2026

John Brittas

John Brittas is an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and a longtime journalist who has been a Rajya Sabha member from Kerala since 2021.

John Britton (respiratory physician)

John Richard Britton, born 1955, is a British respiratory physician and epidemiologist at the University of Nottingham who founded the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies.

John Brognard

John Brognard is an American cancer pharmacologist who studies kinase signaling networks in lung, head and neck, and breast cancers, winning a Presidential Early Career Award in 2017.

John Brooks (soccer, born 1993)

John Anthony Brooks (born 1993, Berlin) is a German-American center back, Hertha BSC academy product, who scored the 86th-minute winner vs Ghana at the 2014 World Cup, moved to Wolfsburg for a record $20.4M, and earned 45 USMNT caps.

John Brooks Slaughter

John Brooks Slaughter (1934–2023) was an American electrical engineer who became the first African American director of the National Science Foundation, serving from 1980 to 1982.

John Broome (writer)

John Broome, born Irving Broome, was an American comic book writer best known for scripting DC Comics' Silver Age Flash and Green Lantern stories and co-creating Hal Jordan.

John Brown (abolitionist)

John Brown (1800-1859), American abolitionist of Bleeding Kansas and the Pottawatomie Massacre, led the failed October 16, 1859 raid on the Harpers Ferry armory; convicted of treason and hanged, he became a Civil War catalyst.

John Brown (Rhode Island politician)

John Brown (1736-1803), Providence merchant and Federalist U.S. Representative from Rhode Island (1799-1801), Gaspee raider, Brown University founder and treasurer, and first American prosecuted in federal court for illegal slave trading.

John Brown (servant)

John Brown (1826–1883), Scottish gillie from Crathie near Balmoral, Queen Victoria's personal servant and Queen's Highland Servant; her closest attendant after Albert's death, subject of 'Mrs Brown' rumours, died at Windsor 1883.

John Brown (wide receiver)

John "Smokey" Brown, born 1990, NFL wide receiver from Pittsburg State drafted 91st overall in 2014 by Arizona; 103 games, 321 catches, 4,790 yards, 32 TDs; 1,000-yard seasons in 2015 and 2019 with the Bills.

John Brown's Body

John Brown's Body (original title "John Brown's Song") is a Union Civil War marching song, sung to William Steffe's "Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us", originating as Fort Warren soldier humor and the source of Julia Ward Howe's 1861 "Battle Hymn of the Republic".