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John C. Pemberton
John Clifford Pemberton (1814–1881), Philadelphia-born West Pointer and Confederate lieutenant general, commanded the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana and surrendered Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863.
John C. Phelan
John C. Phelan, American businessman and founder of Rugger Management LLC, served as 79th US Secretary of the Navy from March 2025 until his April 2026 removal; prioritized readiness, shipbuilding, and warfighter culture.
John C. Pickup
John C. Pickup is a British physician-scientist, Emeritus Professor of Diabetes and Metabolism at King's College London, known for introducing insulin pump therapy in the late 1970s.
John C. Platt
John C. Platt is a computer scientist known for the SMO algorithm and Platt scaling, with a research career at Synaptics, Microsoft Research, and Google.
John C. Polanyi
John C. Polanyi, also known as John Polanyi, is a Canadian chemist at the University of Toronto who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for infrared chemiluminescence.
John C. Porfilio
John C. Porfilio, born 1934, is an inactive senior judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by Reagan; he earlier served as a Colorado district judge.
John C. Raaen Jr.
John C. Raaen Jr., born John Carpenter Raaen Jr., is a retired Army major general who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and commanded US Army Armament Command.
John C. Reilly
John C. Reilly (John Christopher Reilly, born 1965) is an American actor from Chicago known for Paul Thomas Anderson films Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia; Oscar-nominated for Chicago; comedy roles with Will Ferrell; voices Wreck-It Ralph.
John C. Reilly filmography
John C. Reilly filmography: screen credits of the Chicago-born American actor (born 1965), from Casualties of War (1989) and Paul Thomas Anderson dramas to Chicago, Walk Hard, Wreck-It Ralph, and Stan & Ollie.
John C. Rothwell
John C. Rothwell is a British neurophysiologist at the UCL Institute of Neurology known for research on motor control, movement disorders, and transcranial magnetic stimulation.
John C. Schimenti
John C. Schimenti is a molecular geneticist, the James Law Professor of Genetics at Cornell University since 2004, known for identifying mouse genes governing meiosis, recombination, and fertility.
John C. Sheehan
John C. Sheehan (1915–1992) was an American organic chemist at MIT who in 1957 achieved the first total synthesis of a natural penicillin, penicillin V.
John C. Sinclair
John C. Sinclair, known as Jack Sinclair, was a Canadian neonatologist who ran some of the first randomized trials in newborn medicine and founded McMaster's neonatal unit.
John C. Slater
John Clarke Slater (1900–1976) was an American theoretical physicist who led MIT's physics department for two decades and created the Slater determinant, Slater-type orbitals, and the Xα method.
John C. Stennis
John C. Stennis (1901–1995), Mississippi Democrat and US senator 1947–1989, the state's longest-serving senator; Armed Services Committee chairman 1969–1980, segregationist early career, later president pro tempore.
John C. Tully
John C. Tully is a theoretical chemist and Professor Emeritus at Yale University who created surface hopping, the standard method for simulating chemical reactions with electronic transitions.
John C. Wall
John C. Wall is an American mechanical engineer who was Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Cummins, the diesel engine manufacturer, from 2000 until 2015.
John C. Wallace
John C. Wallace, born 1928, is an American judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the longest-serving federal circuit judge in US history.
John C. Williams
John C. Williams is an American economist and the 11th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since 2018, previously leading the San Francisco Fed.
John C. Woods
John Clarence Woods (1911-1950) was the US Army master sergeant from Wichita, Kansas, who hanged ten Nazi leaders at Nuremberg on October 16, 1946, and seven Japanese war criminals in Tokyo in 1948; his claimed 347-execution career and the botched short-drop hangings remain disputed.
John C.C. Fan
John C.C. Fan is a Chinese-born American materials scientist who founded Kopin Corporation, a maker of microdisplays, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.
John Cabello
John Cabello is an American Republican politician and former police officer who has served in the Illinois House of Representatives since 2012, representing the 90th district and serving as Assistant House Minority Leader.
John Cabot
John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto, Zuan Chabotto), Venetian-born Italian navigator sailing for Henry VII of England from Bristol; his 1497 voyage made the first known European landfall in North America since the Norse, and his 1498 expedition vanished.
John Cadbury
John Cadbury (1801–1889) was an English Quaker grocer and tea dealer who founded the cocoa business that became Cadbury, opening his first Birmingham shop in 1824.
John Cage
John Cage (1912–1992) was an American avant-garde composer, philosopher, and visual artist, pioneer of chance operations, indeterminacy, and the prepared piano; best known for the silent piece 4'33" and his lifelong collaboration with Merce Cunningham.
John Cairncross
John Cairncross (1913-1995), British civil servant and Soviet agent code-named Liszt, the Cambridge ring's 'fifth man', named in 1990; penetrated the Treasury, Hankey's office, Bletchley Park Hut 3, and MI6.
John Cairns
John Cairns (1818–1892) was a Scottish United Presbyterian minister and theologian, minister at Berwick-on-Tweed for thirty-one years and later principal of his denomination's theological college in Edinburgh.
John Cairns Jr.
John Cairns Jr. (1923–2017) was an American ecotoxicologist at Virginia Tech, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991, who wrote about 1,750 publications.
John Cale
John Cale (born 1942, Garnant, Wales) is a Welsh musician, Velvet Underground co-founder, solo artist, and producer of Nico, the Stooges, and Patti Smith's Horses.
John Calipari
John Calipari (born 1959) is a Hall of Fame college basketball coach, Arkansas head coach since 2024, formerly Kentucky (2012 NCAA title), Memphis, and UMass; six Final Fours, 900-plus wins, 65 NBA draftees.