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John Lemondes
John Lemondes is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the New York State Assembly from the 126th district, first elected in 2020.
John Lennard-Jones
John Edward Lennard-Jones (1894–1954) was a British theoretical chemist who created the Lennard-Jones potential, brought quantum chemistry to Britain, and held the world's first chair of theoretical chemistry at Cambridge from 1932.
John Lennon
John Lennon (1940–1980), English singer-songwriter, Beatles member 1960–1969, Plastic Ono Band founder with Yoko Ono; 25 US number-one singles, Imagine, Double Fantasy, killed in New York 1980.
John Lennon discography
John Lennon discography: the post-Beatles catalog of John Lennon, from 1968's experimental Unfinished Music with Yoko Ono through Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, Double Fantasy, and posthumous Milk and Honey, plus singles and reissues.
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is John Lennon's debut solo studio album, released in 1970, and is widely regarded as one of the most confessional albums in rock.
John Lennox
John Carson Lennox, born in Armagh, Northern Ireland in 1943, is an Oxford mathematician and evangelical apologist known for public debates with Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
John Leonard Orr
John Leonard Orr, known as the Pillow Pyro, is an American serial arsonist and former Glendale fire captain who set nearly 2,000 fires in the 1980s and early 1990s.
John Leslie (director)
John Leslie (John Leslie Nuzzo, 1945–2010) was an American adult film actor-director of porn's Golden Age, star of Talk Dirty to Me (1980), one of the first performers to direct, with 21 AVN/XRCO awards and three hall-of-fame inductions; distinct from the Scottish TV presenter of the same name.
John Leslie (TV presenter)
John Leslie (John Leslie Stott, born 1965, Edinburgh) is a Scottish TV and radio presenter, first Scottish Blue Peter host (1989-1994), later Wheel of Fortune and This Morning; career ended by 2002 allegations, with charges dropped, not proven, or acquitted.
John Lewis
John Robert Lewis (1940–2020), American civil rights leader and Georgia congressman: SNCC chairman, original Freedom Rider, Bloody Sunday marcher, 33-year House member known as the conscience of Congress.
John Lewis & Partners
John Lewis & Partners: British department store chain founded 1864 on Oxford Street, employee-owned via the John Lewis Partnership since the 1929 and 1950 Trust Settlements; sibling of Waitrose; governed by Partnership Board, Chairman and Partnership Council.
John Lewis Partnership
John Lewis Partnership: British employee-owned retail group running John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets (founded 1864; trust settlement 1950); FY2023 sales £12.25bn, loss before tax £234m.
John Lewis Voting Rights Act
The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (JLVRAA) is proposed U.S. legislation restoring the Voting Rights Act of 1965 after Shelby County v. Holder and Brnovich v. DNC, with a new preclearance formula; passed the House 219-212 in 2021 but filibustered in the Senate.
John Leyton
John Leyton (John Dudley Leyton), English actor and singer; 1961 UK No. 1 "Johnny Remember Me" (Goddard/Meek, BBC-banned), hits Wild Wind and Lonely City, films The Great Escape and Guns at Batasi. Note: birth year reported as both 1936 and 1939.
John Liew (investor)
John Liew is an investor who co-founded AQR Capital Management, a quantitative investment firm, in 1998, and serves as a Founding Principal overseeing research and portfolio management.
John Light (actor)
John Light (born 1972, Birmingham) is an English LAMDA-trained actor known for Hercule Flambeau in Father Brown, Henry Lennox in North & South, Band of Brothers, and an Olivier-nominated stage career; formerly married to Neve Campbell.
John Lillie
John Lillie (1812–1867) was a Scottish-born American clergyman and biblical translator for the American Bible Union, rejected by the Presbytery of New York in 1842 for premillennial views.
John Lindenbaum
John Lindenbaum, a Columbia University physician-investigator based at Harlem Hospital Center, did vitamin B-12 research that changed sickle cell anemia therapy and won a 1996 Franklin Institute award.
John Lindfors
John Lindfors is a Finnish venture capitalist who cofounded DST Global, Yuri Milner's technology investment firm, and is known for leading its investments in Spotify, JD.com, and Didi.
John Lindsay
John Vliet Lindsay (1921–2000), liberal Republican congressman from Manhattan's Silk Stocking district and mayor of New York City 1966–1973; first non-Democrat mayor since La Guardia, Kerner Commission vice chairman, later a Democrat.
John Lineker
John Lineker, nicknamed "Hands of Stone" for his knockout punching power, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist from Paranaguá and a former ONE Bantamweight World Champion.
John Lingard
John Lingard (1771–1851) was an English Roman Catholic priest and historian whose eight-volume History of England, published 1819–1830, was the first comprehensive history written by a Catholic.
John Linsley
John David Linsley (1925–2002) was an American physicist who pioneered ultra-high-energy cosmic ray research; at Volcano Ranch near Albuquerque in 1962 he recorded the highest-energy cosmic ray then observed.
John Lisman
John E. Lisman (1944–2017) was an American neuroscientist at Brandeis University known for proposing that CaMKII acts as a bistable molecular switch storing long-term memories.
John List
John A. List is an economist at the University of Chicago who pioneered field experiments in real markets, firms, and schools, and has served as chief economist of Uber, Lyft, and Walmart.
John List (murderer)
John Emil List was an American mass murderer who shot his wife, mother, and children in Westfield, New Jersey, in 2001. He evaded authorities for 18 years.
John Lithgow
John Lithgow (born 1945) is an American actor of stage, film, and TV, known for 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dexter, The Crown, and Giant. Three Tonys, six Emmys as of 2019, two Oscar nominations; cast as Dumbledore in HBO's Harry Potter.
John Little (operations researcher)
John Dutton Conant Little (1928–2024) was an American operations researcher and MIT Institute Professor who proved Little's Law, coined "branch and bound," and co-founded the journal Marketing Science.
John Littlefield
John Walley Littlefield (1925–2017) was an American human geneticist and physician-scientist who developed amniocentesis for prenatal diagnosis, pioneered human gene mapping methods, and led pediatrics at Johns Hopkins.
John Liu
John Liu is an American Democratic politician representing Queens in the New York State Senate, and previously Comptroller of New York City from 2010 to 2013.