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John Call Dalton
John Call Dalton (1825–1889) was an American physiologist and medical educator, the first person in the United States to devote his career entirely to physiology.
John Callahan (actor)
John Kevin Callahan (1953–2020), American soap opera actor born in Brooklyn, best known as Edmund Grey on All My Children (1992–2005); also Falcon Crest, Santa Barbara, Days of Our Lives; ex-husband of Eva LaRue; distinct from the cartoonist John Callahan.
John Callahan (cartoonist)
John Michael Callahan (1951-2010), American Portland cartoonist, quadriplegic from a 1972 car crash, known for black-humor disability cartoons in 200+ newspapers, the autobiography Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, and the animated series Pelswick and Quads.
John Calvin
John Calvin, also known as Jean Cauvin, was a French theologian and reformer who led the Reformed branch of the Protestant Reformation and organized the church of Geneva.
John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell, American actor, writer, and director born 1963 in El Paso, Texas; creator and star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch (1998 stage, 2001 film), director of Shortbus and Rabbit Hole, and 2015 Special Tony winner.
John Campbell (YouTuber)
John Lorimer Campbell, English retired nurse educator and YouTuber whose COVID-19 channel drew millions of viewers; later widely fact-checked for misleading vaccine claims by Full Fact, Science Feedback, and FactCheck.org.
John Campbell Brown
John Campbell Brown (1947–2019) was a British solar physicist who held Glasgow's Regius Professorship of Astronomy and served as the 10th Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705–1782), Scottish soldier and peer; raised Highlanders in the 1745 rising and was British commander-in-chief in North America 1756–1757, recalled after the failed Louisbourg expedition.
John Candy
John Candy (1950–1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor, a Second City Toronto and SCTV star known for Johnny LaRue and Yosh Shmenge, who headlined Splash, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, and Cool Runnings before dying at 43.
John Candy: I Like Me
John Candy: I Like Me is a 2025 Prime Video documentary directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds about comedian John Candy, premiering at TIFF 2025 and titled after his Planes, Trains and Automobiles line.
John Cannan
John David Guise Cannan (1954–2024), British murderer and rapist jailed in 1989 for killing Shirley Banks; officially named by Scotland Yard in 2002 as the only prime suspect in the 1986 Suzy Lamplugh disappearance, never charged, died at HMP Full Sutton.
John Canny
John Canny is an Australian-born computer scientist and professor at UC Berkeley, best known for the Canny edge detector, a standard image-processing algorithm published in 1986.
John Cantlie
John Cantlie, British freelance photojournalist for The Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph, kidnapped twice in Syria, held by Islamic State from November 2012, forced into propaganda videos 2014–2016, missing since Mosul, presumed dead.
John Capreolus
John Capreolus (Jean Capréolus, c. 1380–1444) was a French Dominican theologian called "Prince of Thomists", who wrote the Defensiones, the earliest comprehensive defense of Thomas Aquinas.
John Carbon
John Carbon is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara known for isolating the first centromere of any organism, from budding yeast, in 1980.
John Cardoza
John Cardoza (born 1994, Massachusetts) is an American musical theater actor, Boston Conservatory BFA 2016, known as Younger Noah in Broadway's The Notebook, and for Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Karate Kid, and Heathers; distinct from an older film actor of the same name.
John Cardy
John Cardy is a British theoretical physicist, long at Oxford, known for the Cardy formula, boundary conformal field theory, and the a-theorem, and a 2024 Breakthrough Prize laureate.
John Carew
John Alieu Carew (born 1979, Lørenskog) is a Norwegian former striker, 1.95 m, who played for Valencia, Lyon, and Aston Villa, won 91 Norway caps with 24 goals, and was the first black player to represent Norway.
John Carlos
John Wesley Carlos (born 1945, Harlem, New York) is an American sprinter who won 200 m bronze at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and raised a black-gloved fist on the podium with Tommie Smith, co-founding the Olympic Project for Human Rights.
John Carlstrom
John Carlstrom (born 1957) is an American experimental astrophysicist at the University of Chicago who leads the South Pole Telescope, measuring the cosmic microwave background.
John Carmack
John D. Carmack II, known as John Carmack, is an American programmer who co-founded id Software in 1991, creating the engines behind Doom and Quake, and later served as Oculus CTO.
John Carney (Delaware politician)
John Carney, full name John Charles Carney Jr., is an American Democratic politician who served as the 74th governor of Delaware from 2017 to 2025 before becoming mayor of Wilmington in 2025.
John Carney (director)
John Carney, Irish film director, screenwriter, and composer, ex-bassist of The Frames; known for the naturalistic musicals Once (2007), Begin Again, Sing Street, Modern Love, Flora and Son, and Power Ballad.
John Carpenter
John Carpenter (born 1948, Bowling Green, Kentucky) is the American director-composer of Halloween, The Thing, Escape from New York, and They Live; since The Ward (2010) he has worked mainly as a musician.
John Carpenter (game show contestant)
John Carpenter, IRS agent from Hamden, Connecticut, first $1 million winner on the U.S. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (November 19, 1999), answered Richard Nixon on Laugh-In question, used no lifelines except a call to his father.
John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is a co-op FPS zombie horde shooter by Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment, released March 12, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, using the Swarm Engine and vehicles inspired by Mudrunner.
John Carradine
John Carradine (Richmond Reed Carradine, 1906-1988), American character actor of Stagecoach and The Grapes of Wrath, father of David, Keith, and Robert Carradine, prolific in horror films, never a star.
John Carreyrou
John Carreyrou is an American investigative journalist and two-time Pulitzer winner who exposed the Theranos fraud in The Wall Street Journal starting October 2015 and recounted it in his 2018 book Bad Blood.
John Carroll
John Carroll (1735–1815) was an American Catholic priest who became the first Catholic bishop in the United States and, in 1808, the first Archbishop of Baltimore.
John Carroll Lynch
John Carroll Lynch, born 1963 in Boulder, Colorado, is an American character actor known for Norm Gunderson in Fargo and Twisty the Clown in American Horror Story.