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John Dodson (fighter)
John Dodson (born 1984), "The Magician", American MMA and bare-knuckle fighter from Albuquerque; TUF 14 winner, two-time UFC flyweight title challenger vs Demetrious Johnson, first BKFC flyweight champion.
John Doe
John Doe is a placeholder name used in court cases and for unidentified men in medical, coroner, and police settings; its female equivalent is Jane Doe.
John Doe (musician)
John Doe (musician), stage name of John Nommensen Duchac (born 1953), American singer-bassist and poet, co-founder of L.A. punk band X (1977) with Exene Cervenka, also of the Knitters; solo from 1990's Meet John Doe; distinguished from other namesakes.
John Doebley
John F. Doebley is an American plant geneticist and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for identifying teosinte, a weedy Mexican grass, as corn's wild ancestor.
John Doerr
John Doerr is an American venture capitalist and chairman of Kleiner Perkins known for early investments in Google, Amazon, Netscape, and Intuit, and for popularizing OKRs.
John Dolmayan (Ջոն Դոլմայան)
John Dolmayan (Ջոն Դոլմայան), born 1973 in Lebanon, is the Armenian-American drummer of System of a Down (joined 1995), also of Scars on Broadway and the covers project These Grey Men.
John Doman
John Doman (born 1945, Philadelphia) is an American character actor, Marine Vietnam veteran, and former advertising executive who began acting at 46, known for William Rawls in The Wire, Pope Alexander VI in Borgia, and Carmine Falcone in Gotham.
John Dominic Crossan
John Dominic Crossan (born 1934) is an Irish-born American theologian and former Catholic priest, Professor Emeritus at DePaul University and a leading Jesus Seminar scholar.
John Donahoe
John Donahoe is an American business executive who was president and CEO of Nike from January 2020 to October 2024, after leading Bain & Company, eBay, and ServiceNow.
John Donne
John Donne (1572–1631), English metaphysical poet and Anglican Dean of St Paul's, known for conceits like the compass comparison, his secret marriage to Anne, and his 20th-century reputation revival.
John Doran (venture capitalist)
John Doran, born 1978, is an Irish venture capital investor at TCV who led investments in Revolut, Klarna, and Mollie and became the firm's co-managing partner in 2022.
John Dorsey (American football)
John Dorsey (born 1961, Leonardtown, MD), NFL executive; former Packers linebacker; GM of Kansas City Chiefs 2013-17 (drafted Patrick Mahomes) and Cleveland Browns 2018-19; Detroit Lions senior personnel executive since 2021.
John Dory
John Dory (Zeus faber, St Peter's fish, kuparu) is a compressed, spot-marked demersal fish of family Zeidae found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific temperate waters, fished commercially and listed IUCN Data Deficient.
John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos (1896-1970), American modernist novelist of Manhattan Transfer (1925) and the U.S.A. trilogy (1930-1936), known for Newsreel, Camera Eye, and biography collage techniques.
John Dougall (mathematician)
John Dougall (1867–1960) was a Scottish mathematician, born in Kippen and trained at Glasgow, remembered for Dougall's theorem on hypergeometric series, prize-winning elasticity work, and mathematical publishing.
John Dougery
John Dougery is an American venture capitalist who co-founded and leads Inventus Capital Partners, an early-stage firm investing across the United States and India with offices in Menlo Park and Bengaluru.
John Douglas
John Douglas (John William Henry Tyler Douglas, 1882-1930), English boxer and cricketer; won 1908 Olympic middleweight boxing gold, captained England cricket 18 times, drowned in the Kattegat aboard the SS Oberon; distinct from the Guyanese boxer and NZ sailor of the same name.
John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (1844–1900), Scottish peer and patron of boxing whose name attaches to the 1867 Queensberry Rules, and who was acquitted of libeling Oscar Wilde in 1895, the trial that led to Wilde's imprisonment.
John Dove Isaacs
John Dove Isaacs III (1913–1980) was an American oceanographer and engineer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for deep-sea moorings, the Isaacs-Kidd midwater trawl, and wave-powered machines.
John Dowland
John Dowland (c. 1563–1626), English Renaissance composer and lutenist, famous for melancholic lute songs (ayres) such as "Flow My Tears" and the pavan set Lachrimae (1604); court lutenist to James I from 1612.
John Doyle (control theorist)
John Comstock Doyle is a Caltech control theorist, emeritus as of 2025, known for the structured singular value, H-infinity control, and highly optimized tolerance theory of robust-yet-fragile complex systems.
John Draper
John Thomas Draper, known as Captain Crunch or Crunchman, is an American programmer and former phone phreak famous for making free long-distance calls with a Cap'n Crunch cereal-box whistle.
John Drew Barrymore
John Drew Barrymore (1932–2004), also known as John Barrymore Jr., was an American actor, son of John Barrymore and Dolores Costello and father of Drew Barrymore, whose sporadic film career included While the City Sleeps and High School Confidential.
John Drew Jr.
John Drew Jr. (1853–1927), American stage actor, son of John Drew and Louisa Lane Drew; leading man in Augustin Daly's company with Ada Rehan, then a Charles Frohman star, uncle of the Barrymores.
John Drew Sr.
John Drew Sr. (1827–1862), Irish-born American stage actor and Philadelphia theater manager, husband of Louisa Lane Drew, father of John Drew Jr., and grandfather of the Barrymores; not the NBA player or pastor John Drew Sheard Sr.
John Dryden
John Dryden (1631–1700), English Restoration poet, playwright, critic, and translator; first poet laureate (1668), author of Absalom and Achitophel, All for Love, and the Virgil translation, called the father of English criticism by Johnson.
John du Pont
John Eleuthère du Pont (1938–2010), du Pont chemical-fortune heir, ornithologist and founder of the Delaware Museum of Natural History, sponsored wrestling at Foxcatcher Farm, killed Dave Schultz in 1996, and died in prison.
John Ducey
John Ducey (John Joseph Ducey, born 1969, Endwell, New York) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer; Harvard-educated, known as Tom Lucas on Disney's Jonas, Ford Lowell on Oh Grow Up, and writer of streaming films like I Believe in Santa.
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504–1553), English soldier and statesman, son of the executed Edmund Dudley; Viscount Lisle, Earl of Warwick, and Lord President who led Edward VI's government 1549–1553; executed after the failed bid to make Jane Grey queen.
John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick
John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick (c.1527–1554), eldest son of the Duke of Northumberland; Edwardian courtier, Knight of the Bath, master of the horse; attainted over the Jane Grey plot, pardoned, died ten days after leaving the Tower.