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John Carroll University
John Carroll University is a private Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, a Cleveland suburb, founded in 1886 as St. Ignatius College and renamed in 1923 for Archbishop John Carroll, founder of Georgetown.
John Carson (Colorado politician)
John Carson is an American Republican politician who represents Colorado's 30th Senate district, serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and previously directed HUD's Rocky Mountain region.
John Carter (ER)
Noah Wyle portrayed John Truman Carter III, a fictional doctor in the NBC series ER. He grew from a third-year student into a confident and skilled attending physician.
John Carter (film)
John Carter (2012) is Andrew Stanton's Disney sci-fi film adapting Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars, starring Taylor Kitsch; it earned about $284 million worldwide against a $250-307 million budget, causing a $200 million loss.
John Carter (Texas politician)
John R. Carter, born in 1941, is an American Republican politician and former Williamson County district judge who has represented Texas's 31st congressional district in the U.S. House since 2003.
John Carter Cash
John Carter Cash, only child of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, is an American Grammy-winning record producer, singer-songwriter, and author who runs Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and produced the posthumous albums Out Among the Stars and Songwriter.
John Carter of Mars
John Carter of Mars is the hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs's science fiction series, beginning with A Princess of Mars in 1912 and spanning eleven books.
John Casablancas
John Casablancas (1942–2013) was an American modeling agent who founded Elite Model Management in Paris. He is primarily credited with creating the influential "supermodel" concept.
John Cassaday
John Cassaday (Johnny Mac Cassaday, 1971–2024), American comic book artist, writer, and TV director; co-creator of Planetary with Warren Ellis, artist of Astonishing X-Men, Captain America, Star Wars; three straight Eisner Awards 2004–2006.
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes (1929-1989), American actor and independent filmmaker, husband of Gena Rowlands. Director of Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, and Love Streams, pioneer of American independent cinema.
John Cassian
John Cassian (c. 360 – c. 435) was a monk and ascetic writer who brought Egyptian monasticism to the West through the Institutes and Conferences, written at Marseille.
John Castle
John Castle is an American private equity investor who co-founded the New York merchant bank Castle Harlan in 1987 and is regarded as a pioneer of the private equity limited partnership.
John Catsimatidis
John Catsimatidis (born 1948, Nisyros, Greece) is a Greek American billionaire who owns Gristedes supermarkets, United Refining, and Red Apple Media's 77 WABC; 2013 NYC mayoral candidate and Cats Roundtable radio host.
John Caudwell
John Caudwell, full name John David Caudwell, is a British billionaire who built the Caudwell Group and Phones 4u, selling it in 2006 for £1.46 billion.
John Cazale
John Cazale (John Holland Cazale, 1935 to 1978) was an American character actor who appeared in five films, each nominated for Best Picture, and played Fredo Corleone in The Godfather films.
John Cena
John Cena (born 1977, West Newbury, Massachusetts) is a retired WWE wrestler and actor, record 17-time world champion, Make-A-Wish granter of 600+ wishes, and star of Peacemaker and F9.
John Chae
John Chae is a physician-scientist in physical medicine and rehabilitation who leads academic affairs at MetroHealth in Cleveland and studies electrical stimulation for post-stroke limb function and pain.
John Chalker
John T. Chalker is a condensed matter theoretical physicist at the University of Oxford, known for the 1988 Chalker–Coddington network model describing the integer quantum Hall plateau transition.
John Challis
John Challis (1942–2021), English character actor best known as Boycie in Only Fools and Horses and The Green Green Grass; also Benidorm, Z Cars, Doctor Who, and Boycie in Belgrade.
John Chalmers (neuroscientist)
John Chalmers, born 1937, is an Australian medical researcher at the George Institute known for work on the brain's control of blood pressure and the INTERACT and ENCHANTED stroke trials.
John Chamberlain (sculptor)
John Angus Chamberlain (1927–2011), American sculptor and filmmaker of crushed-car-part assemblages; Shortstop (1958), Black Mountain College, Guggenheim retrospectives 1971 and 2012, three-dimensional Abstract Expressionism.
John Chancellor
John William Chancellor (1927–1996), American television journalist, NBC News reporter, NBC Nightly News anchor 1970–1982, senior commentator to 1993, Voice of America director 1965–1967, famous for his 1964 convention arrest sign-off.
John Chandos
Sir John Chandos was an English knight, one of the most celebrated commanders of the Hundred Years War, serving the Black Prince from 1339 until his death in 1370.
John Chaney (basketball, born 1932)
John Chaney (1932-2021), Hall of Fame college basketball coach. Won the 1978 NCAA Division II title at Cheyney State (225-59), then won a Temple-record 516 games over 24 seasons with 17 NCAA bids and his famed match-up zone defense.
John Chant
John Chant is a molecular biologist who studies cell polarity in budding yeast, known for his 1991 Cell paper identifying the BUD1–BUD4 genes for bud-site selection.
John Chapman Frye
John Chapman Frye (1912–1982) was an American geologist, state geologist of Kansas and chief of the Illinois State Geological Survey from 1954 to 1974, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1971.
John Chappell
John Michael Arthur Chappell (1940–2018) was a New Zealand-born Australian geoscientist at the Australian National University, called the father of Quaternary research in Australia for his sea-level work.
John Chaput
John C. Chaput is an American chemical biologist and professor at UC Irvine whose laboratory engineers polymerases for xeno-nucleic acids and evolved the TNA-synthesizing enzyme 10-92.
John Charles
John Charles (William John Charles, 1931–2004), Welsh footballer, the Gentle Giant; Leeds United and Juventus centre-half and centre-forward, 93 goals in 155 Serie A games, three Scudetti, 38 Wales caps, 1958 World Cup.
John Charles Daly
John Charles Daly, born John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly, was a South African-born American broadcast journalist who reported Pearl Harbor, anchored ABC's evening news, and hosted What's My Line? for 17 years.