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John C. Calhoun (scientist)

John C. Calhoun was an American petroleum engineer who spent most of his career at Texas A&M University and wrote the influential 1976 textbook Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering.

John C. Cambier

John C. Cambier is an American immunologist at the University of Colorado known for defining B cell receptor signaling and inhibitory checkpoint receptors, and for first cloning STING.

John C. Cassel

John C. Cassel (1921–1976) was a South African-born epidemiologist, a pioneer of social epidemiology who led the University of North Carolina's epidemiology department from 1958.

John C. Chambers

John C. Chambers is a genetic epidemiologist, Professor at Imperial College London and President's Chair at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, known for the 2016 BMI methylation study.

John C. Coughenour

John C. Coughenour, born 1941, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Washington since 2006.

John C. Crittenden

John C. Crittenden is an environmental engineer who led Georgia Tech's Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems from 2009 to 2022 and won the 2015 Clarke Prize.

John C. Crowell

John C. Crowell (1917–2015) was an American geologist and National Academy of Sciences member who worked out the displacement history of the San Andreas fault system.

John C. Devereux

John C. Devereux, born John Corish Devereux, was an Irish-born merchant and banker in Utica, New York, who became the city's first elected mayor in 1840.

John C. Doyle

John C. Doyle is a control theorist at Caltech, emeritus since 2025, known for the 1989 state-space H-infinity solution and for applying robustness theory to biology and large networks.

John C. Egan

John Clarence "Bucky" Egan (1915–1961), USAAF/USAF colonel, service number O-399510, commanded the 418th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group; Munster raid POW; Korea B-26 commander; died on active duty.

John C. Fletcher

John C. Fletcher, also known as John Fletcher, was an American bioethicist and former Episcopal priest who pioneered bioethics and led the NIH Clinical Center's Bioethics Program from 1977 to 1987.

John C. Frémont

John C. Frémont (1813–1890), "The Pathfinder," American explorer, Topographical Engineer, first Republican presidential nominee (1856), Union major general whose 1861 Missouri emancipation proclamation Lincoln revoked, and Arizona Territory governor.

John C. Gerhart

John C. Gerhart, born 1936, is an American developmental biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for work on Xenopus axis formation and deuterostome origins.

John C. Geyer

John C. Geyer was an American sanitary and environmental engineer at Johns Hopkins University who co-authored the profession's first modern textbook, Water Supply and Waste-Water Disposal.

John C. Gore

John C. Gore is a British-born medical imaging scientist at Vanderbilt University who develops MRI methods and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011.

John C. Harsanyi

John C. Harsanyi (János Harsányi) was a Hungarian-American economist at UC Berkeley who shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Nash and Reinhard Selten.

John C. Hinderaker

John Charles Hinderaker, born 1968, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Arizona since 2020, appointed by President Trump.

John C. Hobbins

John C. Hobbins is an American maternal-fetal medicine physician at the University of Colorado known for pioneering the clinical use of ultrasound in obstetrics and prenatal diagnosis.

John C. Howell

John C. Howell, also known as John Charles Howell, is an American quantum optician and physics professor at Chapman University known for entangled-photon EPR experiments.

John C. Kendrew

John Cowdery Kendrew was a British biochemist and X-ray crystallographer who determined the first three-dimensional structure of a protein, myoglobin, and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

John C. Liebeskind

John C. Liebeskind (1935–1997) was an American research psychologist at UCLA who pioneered the study of pain relief in the brain and showed that unmanaged pain can suppress the immune system.

John C. Lilly

John C. Lilly (1915–2001), American neurophysiologist who invented the isolation tank in 1954 at NIMH, pioneered dolphin communication research, and wrote Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer.

John C. Long

John C. Long is a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the first there to focus solely on hematopathology, the diagnosis of blood and lymphoid diseases.

John C. Malone

John C. Malone, born John Carl Malone in 1941, is an American cable executive who built TCI into the largest US cable operator and later chaired Liberty Media.

John C. Mather

John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist at NASA Goddard who shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for measuring the cosmic microwave background from the COBE satellite.

John C. Maxwell

John C. Maxwell is an American leadership author, speaker, and coach who wrote The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and founded the EQUIP nonprofit and Maxwell Leadership.

John C. Mazziotta

John C. Mazziotta is an American neurologist and brain imaging researcher who has been Vice Chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and CEO of UCLA Health since 2015.

John C. McGinley

John C. McGinley (born 1959) is an American actor known as Dr. Perry Cox on Scrubs (2001–2010, 2026 ABC revival) and for Oliver Stone films Platoon, Wall Street, and Any Given Sunday, plus Seven, The Rock, Office Space, and Rooster.

John C. Miller

John C. Miller (John Chester Miller, 1907–1991) was an American historian of the American Revolution; Harvard-trained under Samuel Eliot Morison, taught at Bryn Mawr and Stanford, held the Edgar E. Robinson professorship, and wrote Sam Adams, Origins of the American Revolution, and The Wolf by the Ears.

John C. P. Goldberg

John C. P. Goldberg, American legal scholar, Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; with Benjamin Zipursky co-developed civil recourse theory and co-authored Recognizing Wrongs (2020), a leading account of tort law as wrongs and redress.