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John Charles Fields
John Charles Fields (1863–1932) was a Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto who organized the 1924 International Congress of Mathematicians and established the Fields Medal.
John Charles Vassberg
John Charles Vassberg is an American aerodynamicist, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025, who led Boeing aerodynamics for decades and now designs JetZero's blended wing body Z4.
John Charles Walker
John Charles Walker (1893–1994) was an American plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who first demonstrated that disease resistance in plants has a chemical basis.
John Charnley
Sir John Charnley (1911–1982) was an English orthopedic surgeon who devised low-friction arthroplasty at Wrightington Hospital, the first total hip replacement to give consistently predictable results.
John Cheever
John Cheever (1912–1982), American short story writer and novelist, the 'Chekhov of the suburbs'; author of The Wapshot Chronicle, 'The Swimmer', and the Pulitzer-winning The Stories of John Cheever.
John Cherry (Michigan politician)
John Cherry is an American Democratic politician serving in the Michigan Senate for the 27th district since 2023, chairing the Senate Labor Committee and previously serving in the Michigan House.
John Chilembwe
John Chilembwe was a Baptist pastor in Nyasaland (now Malawi) who founded the Providence Industrial Mission and led an uprising against colonial rule in 1915.
John Chipman (metallurgist)
John Chipman (1897–1983) was an American metallurgist and physical chemist who brought thermodynamics into industrial steelmaking, led MIT's Department of Metallurgy, and headed the Manhattan Project's metallurgy section in Chicago.
John Chisum
John Simpson Chisum was an American cattleman known as the Cattle King of the Pecos, who ran the largest open-range cattle operation in the American West.
John Cho
John Cho (조요한, born 1972, Seoul) is a Korean American actor, Berkeley English graduate, star of Harold & Kumar, Sulu in Star Trek (2009), and Searching (2018), living in Los Angeles.
John Chowning
John Chowning, born 1934, is an American composer and Stanford professor who discovered FM synthesis in 1967; Stanford licensed it to Yamaha, earning over $20 million and powering the DX7.
John Christensen
John Christensen: name of several Olympians, chiefly a New Zealand field hockey inside right (born 1948, Christchurch) who won gold at Montreal 1976 after three Games; also a Danish 1936 swimmer and a Swedish 1980 modern pentathlete.
John Christie (serial killer)
John Reginald Halliday Christie, English serial killer of at least six women at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, 1943–1953; his testimony helped hang Timothy Evans, later pardoned.
John Christodoulou
John Christodoulou, also known as Yiannakis Theophani Christodoulou, is a Cyprus-born British property billionaire based in Monaco who founded and owns the Yianis Group, a London property company centered on Canary Wharf.
John Christopher Mauro
John Christopher Mauro is an American glass scientist at Penn State who co-invented Gorilla Glass at Corning and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
John Christopher Morris
John Christopher Morris is a storage engineer who joined Seagate in 1996, holds 32 hard-drive patents, and has been its Chief Technology Officer since November 2018.
John Chrysostom (Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος)
John Chrysostom (Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος), "the golden-mouthed," was a celebrated preacher of Antioch who became Archbishop of Constantinople in 398, was twice exiled, and died in 407.
John Church (Australian oceanographer)
John Church, born 1951, is an Australian oceanographer known for measuring and explaining global sea-level rise during a long career at CSIRO and later UNSW.
John Church Hamilton
John Church Hamilton (1792–1882), fourth son of Alexander Hamilton, was an American historian who edited his father's seven-volume Works and wrote the seven-volume Life of Alexander Hamilton.
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722), English general and Captain-General of allied forces in the War of the Spanish Succession; victor of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenaarde, and Malplaquet; ancestor of the Spencer-Churchill dukes.
John Cioffi
John Cioffi is an American electrical engineer, Stanford professor emeritus, known as "the father of DSL" for the discrete multitone research that became the 1993 US standard.
John Clare
John Clare (13 July 1793 to 1864), the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet, was an English Romantic-era poet and naturalist of rural life, author of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820), who spent his last decades in asylums.
John Clark (Ryanverse character)
John Clark (born John Terence Kelly) is Tom Clancy's CIA paramilitary operative in the Ryanverse novels, lead of Without Remorse (1993) and Rainbow Six (1998), "Ryan's dark side," played on screen by Willem Dafoe, Liev Schreiber, and Michael B. Jordan.
John Clarke (physicist)
John Clarke, born 1942, is a British-born condensed matter physicist at UC Berkeley known for pioneering SQUIDs and for one third of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.
John Clarke (satirist)
John Morrison Clarke (1948–2017), New Zealand-born satirist and comedian; creator of farmer Fred Dagg, half of Clarke and Dawe mock interviews, co-creator of The Games; moved to Australia in 1977.
John Clarkson Jay
John Clarkson Jay (1808–1891) was an American physician and conchologist whose shell collection, the largest private one in 19th-century America, founded the American Museum of Natural History's malacology collection.
John Clauser
John F. Clauser, born 1942 in Pasadena, California, is an American physicist who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments with entangled photons that violated Bell inequalities.
John Clawson
John Richard Clawson (1944-2018), American basketball player, University of Michigan, 1968 Olympic gold medalist, Oakland Oaks ABA champion 1969; distinct from Jack Smyth and other namesakes.
John Clay Walker
John Clay Walker (1948–1985) was a Minnesota journalist and aspiring novelist, a Marine Vietnam veteran, tortured and murdered in Guadalajara in January 1985 by Rafael Caro Quintero's Guadalajara Cartel after being mistaken for a DEA agent, alongside Alberto Radelat.
John Clayton (sportswriter)
John Clayton (1954-2022), 'The Professor,' American NFL sportswriter and ESPN insider (1995-2017), Pittsburgh Press and Tacoma News Tribune beat reporter, 2007 Dick McCann/Bill Nunn Award winner, Seattle radio host.