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John Currie
John Currie (John Fletcher Currie), Canadian cross-country skier of the Ottawa Ski Club who finished 40th in the men's 18 km at the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics; later a gold-mine engineer and Beechwood Cemetery manager; distinct from figure skater John Curry.
John Curry
John Curry (1949–1994), English figure skater; 1976 Innsbruck Olympic, European, and World champion; first British man to win Olympic skating gold; founded the John Curry Theatre of Skating, fusing skating with ballet.
John Curtin
John Curtin (1885–1945), Australia's 14th prime minister and member for Fremantle, led the country through World War II from October 1941, turned to America, defied Churchill over troop deployment, and died in office in July 1945.
John Curtis
John Curtis, also known as John R. Curtis, is an American Republican politician who has served as a U.S. senator from Utah since 2025, succeeding Mitt Romney.
John Curtius
John Curtius is a venture capital investor who led Tiger Global's software and B2B investing from 2017 to 2022, making over 250 investments, before founding Cedar Investment Management.
John Cusack
John Cusack (born 1966, Evanston, Illinois), American actor, producer, and screenwriter; rose in 1980s teen films (Say Anything), peaked with Grosse Pointe Blank, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, later shifted to writing, including the 2026 graphic novel Momo.
John D. Aitchison
John D. Aitchison is a Canadian-trained molecular cell biologist and systems biologist, co-director of the Center for Global Infectious Disease Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute.
John D. Anderson
John D. Anderson is an American aerospace engineer at the University of Maryland and the Smithsonian, known for hypersonic gas dynamics and textbooks like Introduction to Flight.
John D. Axtell
John D. Axtell (1934–2000) was an American plant geneticist and sorghum breeder at Purdue University, known for improving sorghum's nutritional quality and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982.
John D. Bagdade
John D. Bagdade is an American endocrinologist at the University of Washington known for New England Journal of Medicine papers on lipid metabolism in diabetes and uremia.
John D. Baldeschwieler
John D. Baldeschwieler, born 1933 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is an American chemist and emeritus Caltech professor known for spectroscopic methods, entrepreneurship, and the 2000 National Medal of Science.
John D. Barrow
John D. Barrow, also known as John David Barrow, was a British cosmologist and Cambridge professor who won the 2006 Templeton Prize for popularizing science.
John D. Bates
John D. Bates, born 1946, is an American jurist and senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001.
John D. Baxter
John D. Baxter (1940–2011) was an American endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, best known for cloning the first human growth hormone gene and pioneering work on nuclear hormone receptors.
John D. Birkmeyer
John D. Birkmeyer is an American general surgeon and health services researcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2006 and Chief Clinical Officer of Sound Physicians.
John D. Black
John D. Black (1883–1960) was an American agricultural economist who held the Henry Lee chair at Harvard from 1927 to 1959 and helped write the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933.
John D. Bredehoeft
John D. Bredehoeft (1933–2023) was an American groundwater hydrologist who spent 32 years at the U.S. Geological Survey, pioneering digital simulation of groundwater flow and contaminant transport.
John D. Caplan
John D. Caplan (circa 1926–1998) was an American chemical engineer who led General Motors Research Laboratories from 1969 and spearheaded drastic cuts in vehicle emissions in the 1960s and 1970s.
John D. Clemens
John D. Clemens is an American infectious disease epidemiologist whose Bangladesh field trials established oral cholera vaccines; he was founding Director General of the International Vaccine Institute and developed Shanchol.
John D. Corbett
John D. Corbett (1926–2013) was an American inorganic chemist, Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory scientist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.
John D. Crawford
John D. Crawford (1920–2005) was an American pediatric endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who led its pediatric endocrine program for decades and was among the first to treat children with human growth hormone.
John D. E. Gabrieli
John D. E. Gabrieli, also known as John Gabrieli, is an American cognitive neuroscientist at MIT known for brain-imaging studies of memory, dyslexia, and psychiatric disease.
John D. Ferry
John D. Ferry (1912–2002) was a Canadian-born American polymer chemist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Williams-Landel-Ferry equation and viscoelasticity research.
John D. Grabenstein
John D. Grabenstein is an American vaccinologist, pharmacist, and epidemiologist who directed the Military Vaccine Agency, led medical affairs at Merck Vaccines, and won the 2020 Remington Honor Medal.
John D. Hainsworth
John D. Hainsworth is an American medical oncologist in Nashville who co-founded the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in 1993 and directs clinical research at Sarah Cannon Cancer Center.
John D. Helmann
John D. Helmann is an American microbiologist and professor at Cornell University since 1990, known for work on metalloregulation and peroxide sensing in Bacillus subtilis, including the PerR mechanism.
John D. Hoffman
John D. Hoffman (1922–2004) was an American polymer physicist who co-developed the Lauritzen–Hoffman theory of polymer crystallization, a standard model, during a career at the National Bureau of Standards.
John D. Joannopoulos
John D. Joannopoulos (1947–2025) was an MIT condensed-matter theoretical physicist who helped create photonic crystals, materials that control light the way semiconductors control electrons, and co-founded six startups.
John D. Keith
John D. Keith (1908–1989) was a Canadian pediatric cardiologist at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children whose studies of congenital heart disease won the Gairdner International Award.
John D. Kraus
John D. Kraus (1910–2004) was an American radio astronomer and electrical engineer at Ohio State University who invented the helical antenna and built the Big Ear radio telescope.