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John Cleese
John Cleese (born 1939) is a British comedian, actor, and writer, a founding member of Monty Python, co-creator and star of Fawlty Towers, star of A Fish Called Wanda, and co-founder of the Video Arts training-film company.
John Clem
John Lincoln Clem (born Klem, 1851–1937), the 'Drummer Boy of Chickamauga' and 'Johnny Shiloh,' a Union Civil War drummer boy who shot a Confederate colonel at Chickamauga, became the Army's youngest NCO, and retired a major general in 1916.
John Climacus (Ἰωάννης τῆς Κλίμακος)
John Climacus (Ἰωάννης τῆς Κλίμακος), also called John of Sinai, was an abbot at Mount Sinai who wrote the ascetic treatise The Ladder of Divine Ascent.
John Clive Ward
John Clive Ward (1924–2000) was a British theoretical physicist who proved the 1950 Ward identity, a foundation of renormalization theory, and co-developed electroweak theory with Abdus Salam.
John Coale
John Coale, American lawyer and Trump's special envoy to Belarus (from March 2025 deputy Ukraine envoy), negotiated releases of hundreds of Belarusian political prisoners for sanctions relief; formerly Bhopal and Big Tobacco litigator, husband of Greta Van Susteren.
John Cobb (racing driver)
John Rhodes Cobb (1899-1952), English racing driver and fur broker, three-time world land speed record holder at Bonneville (350.2, 369.74, 394.19 mph), Brooklands lap record holder, killed 1952 on Loch Ness in the jet boat Crusader.
John Cochran (Survivor contestant)
John Martin Cochran is an American TV writer and two-time Survivor contestant, winner of Survivor: Caramoan (2013) by unanimous 8-0-0 vote with zero votes against, after finishing 8th on South Pacific (2011); later a CBS sitcom writer.
John Cockcroft
John Cockcroft, also known as Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, was a British nuclear physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for splitting the atom and directed Britain's Harwell atomic research establishment.
John Cocke (computer scientist)
John Cocke was an American computer scientist at IBM who pioneered RISC architecture and optimizing compilers, earning the 1987 A.M. Turing Award and the National Medal of Science.
John Coffee
John Coffee (1772–1833), Alabama general and surveyor, not the Georgia congressman John Coffee (1782–1836): Jackson's cavalry commander at Tallushatchee and Horseshoe Bend, Alabama's first surveyor general, and co-founder of Florence.
John Cohlan
John Cohlan is an American business executive who co-founded Margaritaville Holdings with singer Jimmy Buffett in 1997 and leads the brand across restaurants, resorts, and a cruise line.
John Coleman Moore
John Coleman Moore (1923–2016) was an American algebraic topologist who spent his career at Princeton University and is known for the Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence and the Milnor–Moore theorem.
John Colet
John Colet was an English priest and Christian humanist who served as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral from 1505 and founded St Paul's School, endowed with his whole fortune.
John Colhoun (plant pathologist)
John Colhoun (1913–2002) was a Northern Irish cryptogamist and plant pathologist who held the Barker Chair of Cryptogamic Botany at the University of Manchester from 1960 to 1980.
John Colicos
John Colicos (1928–2000), Canadian Shakespearean actor, played Commander Kor, the first Klingon in Star Trek, and Count Baltar in the original Battlestar Galactica, plus Mikkos Cassadine on General Hospital.
John Collins (basketball)
John Collins (born 1997) is an NBA forward-center from Wake Forest, drafted 19th in 2017 by Atlanta; Hawks, Jazz, Clippers, and since July 2026 the Detroit Pistons on a three-year, $51 million deal.
John Collison
John Collison is an Irish entrepreneur, born in 1990 in Limerick, who cofounded the online payments company Stripe with his brother Patrick and serves as its president.
John Colter
John Colter (c. 1774/1775–1812), Lewis and Clark private and early mountain man, first Euro-American to see Yellowstone's thermal features; famous for Colter's Hell and his 1808 naked escape from the Blackfeet.
John Coltrane
John Coltrane (1926–1967), American jazz saxophonist and composer, moved from hard bop with Miles Davis through modal jazz to free jazz, leading the classic quartet and recording Giant Steps and A Love Supreme.
John Coltrane discography
John Coltrane discography: the recorded catalog of saxophonist John Coltrane (1926–1967) across Prestige, Blue Note, Atlantic, and Impulse!, organized by session date, plus posthumous releases and 2026 centennial sets.
John Conlee
John Conlee (born 1946, Versailles, Kentucky) is an American country singer and Grand Ole Opry member known for "Rose Colored Glasses," seven Billboard No. 1 hits, 19 Top Ten singles, and Farm Aid farm advocacy.
John Connally
John Bowden Connally Jr. (1917-1993), 38th governor of Texas (1963-1969), Kennedy-era Navy Secretary, and Nixon's 61st Treasury Secretary; wounded in the JFK assassination, switched parties, acquitted in the milk-price trial.
John Connaughton
John Connaughton is an American private equity investor and Chair of Bain Capital, the Boston-based investment firm managing roughly $225 billion, which he joined in 1989.
John Connolly (FBI)
John J. Connolly Jr., retired FBI special agent of the Boston field office, handler of informants Whitey Bulger and Stephen Flemmi; convicted 2002 of racketeering and obstruction and 2008 in Florida of second-degree murder; compassionate release 2021.
John Connor
John Connor is the fictional savior and Resistance leader at the center of the Terminator franchise, son of Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese, hunted by Skynet across timelines and killed off in Terminator: Dark Fate.
John Connors
John Connors is an American venture capitalist, a managing partner at Ignition Partners in Bellevue, Washington, known for Splunk and for his earlier career as Microsoft's chief financial officer.
John Conroy
Sir John Conroy, 1st Baronet (1786-1854), Anglo-Irish courtier and Royal Artillery captain, comptroller of the Duchess of Kent and co-architect of the Kensington System controlling young Queen Victoria; dismissed at her 1837 accession.
John Constable
John Constable (1776–1837), English landscape painter of the Suffolk Stour Valley, known for The Hay Wain, his Hampstead cloud studies of 1820–23, and his rivalry with Turner.
John Constantine
John Constantine, the Hellblazer, is DC Comics' British working-class occult detective and con man, created by Alan Moore, Bissette, and Totleben in Swamp Thing #37 (1985), star of the 300-issue Vertigo series Hellblazer and adaptations starring Keanu Reeves and Matt Ryan.
John Conyers
John Conyers Jr. (1929–2019), Detroit Democrat in the U.S. House 1965–2017; longest-serving African American member of Congress, co-founder of the 1971 Congressional Black Caucus, author of the MLK holiday bill, resigned in 2017 amid harassment allegations.