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John Eliot
John Eliot (1604–1690) was a Puritan minister at Roxbury, Massachusetts, called the "Apostle to the Indians," who translated the Bible into Massachusett and organized converts into fourteen praying towns.
John Elkann
John Elkann, also known as Jaki Elkann, is an Italian businessman who leads the Agnelli family holdings as CEO of Exor and Executive Chairman of Stellantis and Ferrari.
John Elleson
John Elleson is an American politician and pastor, the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Illinois's 9th district in 2026, facing Democrat Daniel Biss.
John Elliott (British historian)
John Elliott, full name Sir John Huxtable Elliott (1930–2022), was a British historian of early modern Spain and its empire, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford from 1990 to 1997.
John Ellis (theoretical physicist)
John Ellis (Jonathan Richard Ellis, born 1946) is a British theoretical particle physicist who pioneered Higgs and supersymmetry phenomenology, led CERN's Theory Division, and joined King's College London in 2010.
John Ellison
John Ellison is an American Republican politician from Elko, Nevada, who served in the Nevada Assembly from 2011 to 2022 before winning a State Senate seat in 2024.
John Elway
John Elway (born 1960), Hall of Fame quarterback for the Denver Broncos 1983-98, first overall pick in 1983, won Super Bowls XXXII and XXXIII, later Broncos executive.
John Emery
John Emery (1932–2022), Canadian bobsledder and plastic surgeon; with brother Vic, Peter Kirby, and Doug Anakin won four-man bobsleigh gold at Innsbruck 1964, Canada's only gold there.
John Emory
John Emory (1789–1835) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1832 and killed in a carriage accident in 1835; Emory University and Emory and Henry College were named for him.
John Engler
John Engler is the 46th governor of Michigan, serving 1991 to 2003. He oversaw major reforms, including shifting school funding to sales tax and eliminating General Assistance.
John Ensign
John Eric Ensign (born 1958) is a Nevada Republican veterinarian and politician, U.S. representative 1995–1999 and senator 2001–2011, who resigned May 3, 2011 amid a Senate ethics scandal over an affair with Cynthia Hampton and lobbying violations involving Doug Hampton.
John Entwistle
John Alec Entwistle (1944–2002) was an English bass guitarist, original member of The Who from 1964 until his death, known for lead-style playing that redefined the electric bass in rock.
John Erskine (educator)
John Erskine (1879–1951), Columbia professor of English and Juilliard's first president, created the 1920 General Honors course, the first American great-books course and ancestor of Columbia's Literature Humanities.
John Eu-Li Wong
John Eu-Li Wong is a Singapore medical oncologist-haematologist and academic leader at the National University of Singapore, who was dean of its medical school from 2003 to 2011.
John Eugene Kunzler
John Eugene Kunzler was an American metallurgist and materials scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories, known for the 1961 discovery that niobium-tin remains superconducting in very high magnetic fields.
John Eustace
John Mark Eustace (born 1979) is an English football manager and former midfielder, Derby County head coach since February 2025, previously managing Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, and Kidderminster Harriers.
John Evan
John Evan (born John Spencer Evans, 1948) is an English progressive rock keyboardist, best known as pianist and organist of Jethro Tull from 1970 to 1980, including on Aqualung.
John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais (1829–1896), English painter and cofounder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848; painted Ophelia, Isabella, and Christ in the House of His Parents; later RA President and baronet.
John Evershed
John Evershed (1864–1956) was an English astronomer who discovered the Evershed effect, the radial outflow of gases from sunspot centers, in 1909 while directing the Kodaikanal Observatory in India.
John Ewing Jr.
John W. Ewing Jr. (born 1961) is the 52nd mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, sworn in June 9, 2025 as the city's first elected Black mayor. Former Omaha Police deputy chief and 18-year Douglas County Treasurer, he defeated three-term incumbent Jean Stothert in May 2025.
John Exley, Jr.
John Onins Exley, Jr. (1867-1938), American rower for Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club; stroke of the eights that won Olympic gold at Paris 1900 and St. Louis 1904, nicknamed the Iron Man.
John F. Ahearne
John F. Ahearne (1934–2019) was an American physicist who chaired the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission after the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and became a leading figure in nuclear safety policy.
John F. Allen
John F. Allen, also known as John Frank Allen, was a Canadian physicist who discovered superfluidity in liquid helium-4 in 1937 and the fountain effect weeks later.
John F. Atkins
John F. Atkins (John Fuller Atkins), born 1944, is an Irish molecular geneticist at University College Cork known for establishing recoding, the reprogramming of genetic decoding by mRNA signals.
John F. Bassett
John F. Bassett (1939–1986), Canadian tennis player and sports entrepreneur; owner of the WFL Memphis Southmen, WHA Toronto Toros, and USFL Tampa Bay Bandits; father of Carling Bassett.
John F. Berry
John F. Berry is an American inorganic chemist and Lester R. McNall Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on metal–metal multiple bonds and high-valent iron.
John F. Boyle Jr.
John F. Boyle Jr., also called Jack Boyle (1943-2026), was a Mansfield, Ohio osteopathic physician convicted in 1990 of murdering his wife Noreen and abusing her corpse; her body was buried under the basement of his Erie, Pennsylvania house.
John F. Brady
John F. Brady, born 1954, is an American fluid mechanician and rheologist, the Chevron Professor at Caltech known for Stokesian dynamics and the swim pressure of active matter.
John F. Campbell (general)
John F. Campbell, also known as John Francis Campbell, is a retired United States Army four-star general who commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan from 2014 to 2016.
John F. Cashen
John F. Cashen is an American electrical engineer, nicknamed "Dr. Stealth," who led low-observables work at Northrop and was chiefly responsible for the B-2 bomber's ability to elude enemy radar.