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John D. Lantos
John D. Lantos, also known as John Lantos, is an American pediatrician and bioethicist who moved to Kansas City in 2009 to create and direct the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center.
John D. Lee
John Doyle Lee (1812-1877), Mormon leader and militia major, only person executed for the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre; founder of Lees Ferry, Arizona; excommunicated 1870, reinstated 1961.
John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald (John Dann MacDonald, 1916–1986), American suspense writer, creator of the 21-book Travis McGee series and The Executioners (filmed as Cape Fear); 78 books, over 75 million copies, National Book Award 1980.
John D. Mackenzie
John D. Mackenzie was a materials scientist at UCLA who trained in London, pioneered glass and ceramics processing, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
John D. Mathews
John D. Mathews is an Australian physician-epidemiologist known for his 1967 transmission model for kuru and as founding director of the Menzies School of Health Research.
John D. McConnell
John D. McConnell is an American urological surgeon-scientist who served as the inaugural CEO of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center from 2008 to 2017 and studied prostate disease.
John D. McDonald
John D. McDonald is an American electric power engineer, a pioneer of grid automation and smart grid development elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
John D. McKinney
John D. McKinney is a microbiologist and professor at EPFL in Lausanne known for showing that the enzyme isocitrate lyase lets tuberculosis bacteria persist in the host.
John D. Michenfelder
John D. Michenfelder, born in 1931, is an American anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic who researched anesthetics' effects on cerebral metabolism and brain protection.
John D. Minna
John D. Minna is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher who directs the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research at UT Southwestern in Dallas.
John D. O'Brien
John D. O'Brien was an American electrical engineer and USC professor known for photonic-crystal nanocavity lasers and the 1998 PECASE award; he died in 2017.
John D. Parker
John D. Parker is a Canadian cardiologist and cardiovascular clinical pharmacologist, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Toronto, known for research on nitrate therapy and nitrate tolerance.
John D. Pettigrew
John D. Pettigrew, known as Jack Pettigrew, was an Australian physiologist and neuroscientist who first showed that neurons in the striate cortex detect binocular disparity, the basis of depth perception.
John D. Rainey
John D. Rainey, born 1945, is a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of Texas, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.
John D. Roberts
John D. Roberts (1918–2016) was an American physical organic chemist at Caltech who used carbon-14 tracers and NMR spectroscopy to work out how organic reactions proceed.
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) was an American industrialist who built Standard Oil into the dominant US oil refiner, was forced to dissolve it in 1911, and gave away over $500 million.
John D. Rockefeller III
John D. Rockefeller III (John Davison Rockefeller 3rd, 1906–1978) was an American philanthropist who founded the Population Council and the Asia Society and was Lincoln Center's first president.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874–1960) was an American financier and philanthropist who gave an estimated $537 million to charity, including $56 million to restore Colonial Williamsburg.
John D. Russell
John D. Russell, also known as John David Russell, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma since 2024.
John D. Schuetz
John D. Schuetz is an American pharmacologist and oncology researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for work on ABC transporters in chemotherapy response.
John D. Scott
John D. Scott is an American biochemist at the University of Washington known for defining A-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs), which organize cell signaling in space and time.
John D. Shaughnessy
John D. Shaughnessy is an American molecular biologist and multiple myeloma researcher who is a professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Myeloma Center.
John D. Stobo
John D. Stobo, known as Jack Stobo, is an American physician-scientist in immunology and rheumatology who led academic medicine at Johns Hopkins and the University of Texas Medical Branch.
John D. Storey
John D. Storey is a statistician and genomicist, professor at Princeton University, known for the q-value and direct approach to false discovery rates in multiple testing.
John D. York
John D. York, also published as J.D. York, is a biochemist who studies inositol phosphate signaling and became chair of biochemistry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902), English Catholic historian, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, planner of the Cambridge Modern History, author of the dictum that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Dall
John Dall (John Dall Thompson, 1920-1971) was an American stage and film actor, Oscar-nominated for his debut The Corn Is Green (1945), best known as Brandon in Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and the lead of Gun Crazy (1950).
John Dalton
John Dalton (1766–1844) was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist who introduced atomic theory into chemistry, published the first table of atomic weights, and first described color blindness.
John Daly (golfer)
John Patrick Daly (born 1966), American golfer, two-time major champion: 1991 PGA Championship won as ninth alternate at Crooked Stick and 1995 Open at St Andrews; famed for leading PGA Tour driving distance 11 of 12 years.
John Damoose
John Damoose is an American politician and Republican member of the Michigan Senate, representing the 37th district covering Northern Michigan and the eastern Upper Peninsula.