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John F. Reid
John F. Reid is an American agricultural engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for agricultural automation.
John F. Stanton
John F. Stanton (1961–2025) was an American quantum chemist, William R. Kenan Professor at the University of Florida, known for coupled-cluster theory and the CFOUR quantum chemistry package.
John F. Tisdale
John F. Tisdale, also known as John Tisdale, is an American physician-scientist who chief of the Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch at NIH, developing cures for sickle cell disease.
John Fahey (musician)
John Fahey (1939-2001), American fingerstyle guitarist and composer, founder of Takoma Records, pioneer of American Primitive guitar blending blues, classical, and raga influences; debut album Blind Joe Death (1959).
John Falstaff
Sir John Falstaff is Shakespeare's comic knight, appearing in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor and mentioned in Henry V. Originally named Oldcastle, he inspired Verdi's opera and the word "Falstaffian."
John Fanta
John Fanta, American sportscaster, NBC Sports play-by-play broadcaster and reporter since August 2025; formerly FOX Sports national college basketball broadcaster 2018-2025 and BIG EAST Digital Network host; Seton Hall graduate, Cleveland native.
John Farnham
John Farnham AO (born 1949), also known as Johnny Farnham, is a British-born Australian singer; five-time King of Pop, 1987 Australian of the Year, whose 1986 album Whispering Jack and song You're the Voice made him an Australian icon.
John Farquhar Fulton
John Farquhar Fulton (1899–1960) was an American neurophysiologist and historian of medicine who built the first primate physiology laboratory in the United States at Yale, co-founded the Journal of Neurosurgery, and co-founded Yale's medical-historical library.
John Farrow
John Farrow, in full John Villiers Farrow (1904–1963), was an Australian-born Hollywood director of film noir who shared the 1956 Oscar for Around the World in Eighty Days.
John Fashanu
John Fashanu, born 1962 in London, is a British TV presenter and former centre-forward; Wimbledon FA Cup winner 1988, two England caps 1989, Gladiators co-host 1992-96 and 1999.
John Feldmann
John Feldmann, American musician, producer, songwriter, and A&R executive; frontman of ska punk band Goldfinger (formed 1994); produced Blink-182's California and over 34 million record sales; runs Big Noise.
John Fenning
John Reginald Keith Fenning (1885–1955), British rower of Leander Club; won 1908 Olympic gold in coxless pairs with Gordon Thomson and silver in coxless fours, later a London Hospital doctor.
John Ferolito
John Ferolito is an American beverage entrepreneur who co-founded AriZona Iced Tea with Don Vultaggio in 1992 and was bought out for about $1 billion in 2015.
John Ferris
John Edward Ferris (1949-2020), American swimmer, 1968 Mexico City Olympic bronze medalist in the 200 m butterfly and 200 m individual medley, and 1967 world record-holder in the 200 m butterfly (2:06.0).
John Fetterman
John Fetterman, Democratic U.S. senator from Pennsylvania since January 2023; former Braddock mayor (2006–2019) and state lieutenant governor (2019–2023); 2022 stroke survivor known for low party-unity voting and 2026 estrangement from Democrats.
John Fiedler
John Donald Fiedler (1925-2005), American character actor: Juror No. 2 in 12 Angry Men, Vinnie in The Odd Couple, Mr. Peterson on The Bob Newhart Show, and the voice of Disney's Piglet from 1968 to 2005.
John Field Richards
John Field-Richards was a British motorboat racer, born in 1878, who won two Olympic gold medals at the 1908 London Games, one of only three athletes to hold two motorboating golds.
John Figueroa
John Joseph Maria Figueroa (1920–1999) was a Jamaican poet, broadcaster, and anthologist, the first West Indian to hold a professorship at the University of the West Indies.
John Fillmore Hayford
John Fillmore Hayford (1868–1925) was an American civil engineer and geodesist who established isostasy as a working tool of geodesy and computed the Hayford spheroid, adopted internationally in 1924.
John Findley Wallace
John Findley Wallace, known as John F. Wallace, was an American civil engineer and the first Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal, serving from 1904 to 1905.
John Finley Yardley
John Finley Yardley (1925–2001) was an American aeronautical engineer who managed the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft for McDonnell Aircraft and led NASA's space shuttle development.
John Finney
John L. Finney is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at University College London whose research centers on water, ices, liquids, and random packing, begun as J. D. Bernal's assistant at Birkbeck College in 1965.
John Finnis
John Finnis, Australian legal philosopher and Hart student at Oxford and Notre Dame, author of Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980), founder of New Natural Law Theory built on basic goods and practical reasonableness.
John Fisher
John Fisher, also known as Saint John Fisher, was an English cardinal and Bishop of Rochester beheaded by Henry VIII in 1535 and canonized in 1935.
John Fisher (social media personality)
John Fisher (born 1973), known as Big John or the Boshfather, is an English food and boxing influencer from Romford, distinct from boxer Johnny Fisher (his son) and the Jimmy Dean song Big Bad John; famous for Chinese takeaway reviews and the catchphrase "Bosh".
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (Jackie Fisher, 1841-1920), British admiral of the fleet and First Sea Lord 1904-1910 and 1914-1915, reformer behind HMS Dreadnought, fleet redistribution, and Selborne officer-training scheme.
John Fitzgerald (businessman)
John Fitzgerald was named by Cantor Fitzgerald's own corporate history as co-founder, with Bernard Gerald Cantor, of the New York bond brokerage founded in 1945.
John Flanagan
John Flanagan (1868–1938), Irish-born hammer thrower for the USA, won Olympic gold in 1900, 1904, and 1908, set 16+ hammer world records, and finished at 56.18 m in 1909.
John Flaxman
John Flaxman (1755–1826) was a British neoclassical sculptor, the leading one in late eighteenth-century Britain, who designed for Wedgwood's jasperware and became famous across Europe for his pure outline illustrations of Homer and Dante.
John Fleck (footballer)
John Alexander Fleck is a Scottish central midfielder born in Glasgow in 1991 who played for Rangers, Coventry City, and Sheffield United, winning the 2016/17 League One title.