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John L. Hall
John L. Hall, known as Jan, is an American laser physicist at NIST and JILA who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser-based precision spectroscopy.
John L. Harper
John L. Harper (1925–2009) was a British plant ecologist who founded plant population biology, working at Bangor and elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978.
John L. Heilbron
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023) was an American historian of physical science and Berkeley vice chancellor who wrote The Sun in the Church and won the Sarton Medal.
John L. Hennessy
John L. Hennessy, also known as John Leroy Hennessy, is an American computer scientist who was Stanford University's 10th president from 2000 to 2016 and won the 2017 Turing Award.
John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper (1950–2024) was an Australian genetic epidemiologist and statistician at the University of Melbourne who led the Australian Twin Registry from 1990 to 2024.
John L. Kane, Jr.
John L. Kane, Jr. (born 1937) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Colorado since 1988, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1977.
John L. Kelley
John L. Kelley (1916–1999) was an American mathematician at UC Berkeley whose 1955 textbook General Topology became a standard graduate reference and whose appendix set out Kelley–Morse set theory.
John L. Lewis
John L. Lewis, born John Llewellyn Lewis, was an American labor leader who led the United Mine Workers from 1920 to 1960 and founded the CIO.
John L. Lumley
John L. Lumley (1930–2015) was an American fluid dynamicist, Willis H. Carrier Professor at Cornell University, who pioneered proper orthogonal decomposition of turbulent flows and coauthored A First Course in Turbulence.
John L. Manferdelli
John L. Manferdelli is a mathematician and cryptographer who led security development at Microsoft, Intel, Google, and VMware, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
John L. Margrave
John L. Margrave (1924–2003) was an American inorganic and fluorine chemist at Rice University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974, who pioneered direct fluorination.
John L. Markley
John L. Markley is an American biochemist and NMR spectroscopist, Steenbock Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who founded the National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison and BioMagResBank.
John L. Moll
John L. Moll (John Lewis Moll, 1921–2011) was an American electrical engineer known for the Ebers-Moll transistor model and the p-n-p-n switch theory behind the silicon controlled rectifier.
John L. Nelson
John L. Nelson (John Lewis Nelson, 1916–2001), Minneapolis jazz pianist and songwriter, leader of the Prince Rogers Trio and father of Prince; co-wrote Computer Blue, The Ladder, and Scandalous with his son.
John L. Sapp
John L. Sapp is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist and professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax who led the VANISH and VANISH2 trials establishing catheter ablation for ventricular tachycardia.
John L. Savage
John L. Savage was an American civil engineer who, as chief designing engineer of the US Bureau of Reclamation, supervised designs of Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams.
John L. Sever
John L. Sever (J. L. Sever) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who led NIH's Infectious Diseases Branch and set Rotary on its polio eradication campaign in 1979.
John L. Sinatra, Jr.
John L. Sinatra, Jr., also known as John Leonard Sinatra, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Buffalo since 2019.
John L. Spudich
John L. Spudich is an American biophysicist, Professor and Director of the Center for Membrane Biology at UTHealth Houston, whose laboratory's work on channelrhodopsins and anion channelrhodopsins underlies optogenetics.
John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan (1858–1918), the "Boston Strong Boy," was American heavyweight boxing champion 1882–1892, the last bare-knuckle champion (Kilrain, 1889, 75 rounds) and first gloved-era figure, losing to Corbett in 1892.
John L. Tonry
John L. Tonry is an American astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi known for dark energy research, the surface brightness fluctuation distance method, Pan-STARRS, and the ATLAS asteroid warning system.
John L. Wallace
John L. Wallace (John Lawrence Wallace) is a Canadian pharmacologist at the University of Calgary known for research on anti-inflammatory drug-induced stomach injury and hydrogen sulfide biology.
John L. Woolford
John L. Woolford Jr. is an American molecular biologist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has studied how eukaryotic ribosomes assemble in yeast since 1979.
John L. Ziegler
John L. Ziegler, born 1938, is an American oncologist and UCSF professor emeritus who developed curative chemotherapy for Burkitt's lymphoma in Uganda and won the 1972 Lasker Award.
John L.R. Rubenstein
John L.R. Rubenstein is a developmental neuroscientist and psychiatrist at UCSF, a National Academy of Sciences member and 2026 Gruber Neuroscience Prize winner for forebrain development research.
John L.S. Holloman Jr.
John Lawrence Sullivan "Mike" Holloman Jr. (1919–2002) was an American physician and civil-rights activist who founded the Medical Committee for Human Rights and led New York City's public hospitals.
John La Farge
John La Farge (1835–1910), American painter, muralist, and stained-glass pioneer of the American Renaissance; inventor-patentee of opalescent glass windows, Trinity Church Boston decorator, Tiffany's rival, and author of An Artist's Letters from Japan.
John Lackey
John Lackey (born 1978, Abilene, TX) is a former MLB right-handed pitcher for the Angels, Red Sox, Cardinals, and Cubs; three-time World Series champion (2002, 2013, 2016) and rookie Game 7 winner in 2002.
John Lahr
John Lahr (born 1941), American theater critic and biographer, son of Bert Lahr; longtime New Yorker senior drama critic, author of Prick Up Your Ears and the NBCC-winning Tennessee Williams biography, and first critic to win a Tony.
John Laird (California politician)
John Laird is an American Democratic politician representing California's 17th State Senate district since 2020, after serving as Natural Resources Secretary under Governor Jerry Brown from 2011 to 2019.