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John Brzenk
John Brzenk (born 1964) is an American arm wrestler from Utah, widely called the greatest of all time by Guinness World Records, with 500+ titles, mastery of hook, top roll, and press, and the 1986 Over the Top truck win.
John Buccigross
John Buccigross is an ESPN sportscaster since 1996, host of NHL 2Night (1998-2004), Frozen Four play-by-play voice, SportsCenter anchor, creator of #Bucciovertimechallenge, and NHL 27 video game commentator.
John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940), Scottish novelist and Governor-General of Canada; author of The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), the Richard Hannay thriller adapted by Hitchcock in 1935.
John Buchanan
John Buchanan is the name of several British and Australian sports figures, including an Olympic judoka, a 1908 Olympic gold-medal sailor, and Australia's record-setting cricket coach.
John Bucy
John H. Bucy III is an American Democratic politician and small business owner representing Texas House District 136, covering part of Williamson County, first elected in 2018.
John Buford
John Buford (1826-1863), Union cavalry general, commanded the 1st Cavalry Division whose dismounted delaying action at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 secured Union high ground; died of typhoid, promoted major general on his deathbed.
John Bull
John Bull is the national personification of the United Kingdom and especially England, created by John Arbuthnot in The History of John Bull (1712) and popularized in Punch cartoons as a stout farmer in a Union Jack waistcoat with a bulldog.
John Bull (locomotive)
The John Bull is an 1831 steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Camden and Amboy Railroad, now displayed at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
John Bunyan
John Bunyan (1628–1688), English Nonconformist tinker-turned-preacher jailed twelve years in Bedford, wrote about sixty books including The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Grace Abounding (1666), and The Holy War (1682).
John Burdon-Sanderson
John Burdon-Sanderson, also known as Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, was an English physiologist (1828–1905) who measured electrical changes in heart, muscle, and plants, and built British physiology at Oxford.
John Burgoyne
John Burgoyne, nicknamed "Gentleman Johnny," was a British general, politician, and playwright whose 1777 surrender at Saratoga helped bring France into the American Revolutionary War.
John Burn (clinical geneticist)
Sir John Burn, born 1952, is a British clinical geneticist at Newcastle University who led trials showing daily aspirin reduces cancer risk in Lynch syndrome.
John Burroughs School
John Burroughs School (JBS) is a coeducational, non-sectarian, college preparatory day school for grades 7-12 in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1923 and named for the naturalist John Burroughs; enrollment 660, tuition $39,810, campus 50+ acres plus Drey Land.
John Burzichelli
John J. Burzichelli is an American Democratic politician, a New Jersey state senator for the 3rd district elected in 2023 after 20 years in the General Assembly.
John Bush (singer)
John Bush is an American heavy-metal singer known for his work with Armored Saint and Anthrax. He helped establish Armored Saint in Los Angeles in 1982, joined Anthrax in 1992, and later.
John Butler (musician)
John Butler (John Charles Wiltshire-Butler, born 1975, Torrance, California) is an Australian roots-rock guitarist and leader of the John Butler Trio, known for Sunrise Over Sea, open-tuned slide fingerstyle, Jarrah Records, and the Four Seasons solo project.
John Buttrick
John Buttrick is a venture capitalist and former corporate lawyer who has been a partner at Union Square Ventures since 2010, focusing on financial services investing.
John Byner
John Byner, born John Thomas Biener, is an American comedian and impressionist known for his impressions and for voicing the Ant and the Aardvark cartoons.
John Byrne (comics)
John Byrne (comics creator), born 1950 in England, Canadian-raised writer-artist of Uncanny X-Men with Claremont, Fantastic Four, and DC's 1986 Man of Steel Superman relaunch; returned in 2026 with X-Men: Elsewhen.
John Byrne (playwright)
John Byrne (1940–2023), Scottish playwright, painter, and designer from Paisley; creator of The Slab Boys trilogy and BBC series Tutti Frutti; won Evening Standard and Olivier awards.
John C. Angus
John C. Angus is a Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University known for low-pressure vapor synthesis of diamond and for explaining hydrogen-terminated diamond's surface conductivity.
John C. Avise
John C. Avise, also known as J. C. Avise, is an American evolutionary geneticist, founder of phylogeography, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991.
John C. Ayres
John C. Ayres, M.D., was an American epidemiologist with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health who published on tularemia, encephalitis, and rickettsialpox from 1948 to 1951.
John C. Bogle
John C. Bogle, known as Jack Bogle, was an American investor who founded the Vanguard Group in 1975 and created the first index mutual fund for individual investors.
John C. Boothroyd
John C. Boothroyd is a parasitologist and emeritus Stanford professor whose work established trans splicing in trypanosomes and the clonal population structure of Toxoplasma gondii.
John C. Branner
John C. Branner, full name John Casper Branner, was an American geologist of Arkansas and Brazil who became Stanford University's first professor of geology and second president.
John C. Breckinridge
John C. Breckinridge (1821–1875), Kentucky statesman, 14th and youngest U.S. vice president under Buchanan, 1860 Southern Democratic presidential candidate, later Confederate major general and the Confederacy's last secretary of war.
John C. Burnett
John C. Burnett is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, director of its Cardiorenal Research Laboratory, known for establishing natriuretic peptides as heart-failure biomarkers.
John C. Byrd
John C. Byrd is an American physician-scientist in hematologic malignancies who directs UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and led development of the leukemia drugs ibrutinib and acalabrutinib.
John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun (1782–1850), seventh U.S. vice president and South Carolina senator, resigned the vice presidency in 1832, devised nullification and the concurrent majority, and defended slavery as a 'positive good.'