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John Danaher (martial artist)
John Danaher (born 1967) is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Renzo Gracie and influential grappling coach who moved from the Renzo Gracie Academy to Austin, Texas.
John Danesh
John Danesh is a physician and epidemiologist who has been Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Cambridge since 2001, working on the causes and prediction of cardiovascular disease.
John Danforth
John C. (Jack) Danforth, born 1936, is a former Republican US senator from Missouri (1976–95), Missouri attorney general, Episcopal priest, Waco special counsel, Sudan envoy, and US Ambassador to the UN.
John Darnielle
John Darnielle, American singer-songwriter and novelist, founder and sole constant member of the Mountain Goats since 1991; author of Wolf in White Van, a 2014 National Book Award long-listee.
John Darwin disappearance case
The John Darwin disappearance case was a British fraud in which John Darwin faked his death canoeing in 2002, collected about £228,000, and was exposed in 2007.
John Davenport Siddeley
John Davenport Siddeley (1866–1953) was an English motor-industry manager and aircraft manufacturer who built Siddeley-Deasy in Coventry into a major war contractor and led Armstrong Siddeley.
John David Carpten
John David Carpten is an American cancer geneticist, director of City of Hope's Comprehensive Cancer Center, known for discovering the first hereditary prostate cancer gene, HOXB13.
John David Jackson
John David Jackson (1925–2016) was a Canadian-born theoretical physicist who worked in particle, nuclear, and atomic physics at UC Berkeley, best known for the graduate textbook Classical Electrodynamics.
John David Kubiatowicz
John David Kubiatowicz is an American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, known for the Alewife multiprocessor, OceanStore, and Tapestry, and a 2000 PECASE award.
John David Rhodes
John David Rhodes, born in 1943, is a British microwave engineer, emeritus professor at the University of Leeds, and founder of Filtronic plc, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993.
John David Washington
John David Washington (born 1984) is an American actor and former football player, son of Denzel Washington; star of Ballers, BlacKkKlansman, Tenet, and The Piano Lesson on stage and screen.
John Davidson (entertainer)
John Davidson (born 1941, Pittsburgh) is the American singer-actor-TV host of That's Incredible! and Hollywood Squares, distinct from the NHL goaltender John Davidson and the Scottish Tourette campaigner of the same name.
John Davies (Intel executive)
John Davies is a retired Intel vice president best known for leading the World Ahead Program and for his 2022 election to the National Academy of Engineering.
John Davis
John Davis was an American heavyweight weightlifter who won Olympic gold medals at London 1948 and Helsinki 1952 and was undefeated internationally from 1938 to 1953.
John Davis (producer)
John Andrew Davis (born 1954, Denver) is an American film producer, founder of Davis Entertainment (1984), producer of Predator, The Firm, I, Robot, Game Night, Jungle Cruise, Prey, and TV's The Blacklist; over 100 projects grossing more than $5 billion.
John Day (Louisiana politician)
John Day is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District in the 2026 election, challenging incumbent Clay Higgins.
John Day Dam
John Day Dam is a federal hydroelectric and navigation dam on the Columbia River near Rufus, Oregon, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and completed in 1971.
John de Brito
John de Brito (அருளானந்தர், Arulanandar) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary in the Madurai mission of southern India, beheaded at Oriyur in 1693 and canonized in 1947.
John de Britto
John de Britto (അരുൾ ആനന്ദർ, Arul Anandar) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary of the Madurai mission in southern India, martyred at Oriyur in 1693 and canonized in 1947.
John de Lancie
John de Lancie (born 1948, Philadelphia), also John Sherwood de Lancie Jr., American actor known as Q in Star Trek: TNG, DS9, Voyager, Picard and Strange New Worlds; also Eugene Bradford on Days of Our Lives, Donald Margolis on Breaking Bad, and the voice of Discord in My Little Pony.
John de Lugo
John de Lugo (Juan de Lugo y Quiroga) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian who taught at the Collegio Romano and was made a cardinal in 1643.
John de Pineda
John de Pineda (Juan de Pineda) was a Spanish Jesuit Scripture scholar and Inquisition consultor, born in Seville around 1558, best known for his thirteen-book commentary on Job.
John Deacon
John Deacon (born 1951, Leicester) is the English bassist and songwriter who joined Queen in 1971 as its fourth member, wrote "Another One Bites the Dust," "You're My Best Friend," and "I Want to Break Free," built the Deacy Amp, and retired from music in 1997.
John Deakin
John Deakin (1912–1972) was an English photographer best known for uncompromising portraits of the 1950s Soho bohemian set and for photographs on which Francis Bacon based several major paintings.
John Dean
John Dean (born 1938) was White House Counsel to Richard Nixon, 1970-1973, and the star witness of the 1973 Senate Watergate hearings, later corroborated by Nixon's tapes; he pleaded guilty to obstruction and became an author.
John Deanfield
John Deanfield is a British cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology at University College London and director of NICOR, known for landmark studies on smoking, endothelial function, and cardiovascular prevention.
John Debney
John Debney (born 1956, Glendale, California) is an American film and TV composer, son of Disney producer Louis Debney, known for The Passion of the Christ (Oscar-nominated), Elf, Hocus Pocus, Cutthroat Island, and The Jungle Book (2016), with three Emmy wins.
John Dee
John Dee (1527–1608/9), English mathematician, astrologer, and adviser to Elizabeth I; Mortlake library of thousands of books; angel conversations with Edward Kelley; Euclid preface and Monas Hieroglyphica.
John Deere
John Deere, the brand of Deere & Company, is an American manufacturer of agricultural, construction, and forestry equipment based in Moline, Illinois, founded by blacksmith John Deere in 1837.
John Deere (inventor)
John Deere (1804–1886) was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who developed a self-scouring steel plow at Grand Detour, Illinois, in 1837 and founded Deere & Company.