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John Mulaney
John Mulaney, Chicago-born American stand-up comedian, Emmy-winning SNL writer (Stefon), creator of New in Town, Kid Gorgeous, Baby J, and Netflix's Everybody's Live talk show.
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA, also called Everybody's in L.A., is a six-night live Netflix talk series hosted by John Mulaney during the 2024 Netflix Is a Joke Fest, May 3-10, with Richard Kind as announcer and themed episodes on Los Angeles topics.
John Mulcahy
John Mulcahy (John Joseph Francis Mulcahy, 1876-1942), American Olympic rower; with Bill Varley won 1904 St. Louis gold in double sculls and silver in coxless pairs; founder of Fordham rowing.
John Muldoon (battery chemist)
John Muldoon is a battery chemist and Senior Principal Scientist at the Toyota Research Institute of North America in Ann Arbor, Michigan, known for magnesium and solid-state battery research.
John Munch
John Munch is a fictional detective played by Richard Belzer, debuting on Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and later Law & Order: SVU, based on Baltimore detective Jay Landsman and played across 10 TV series until 2016.
John Munro
John Munro, 9th of Teaninich, was a Scottish East India Company officer who served as British Resident in Travancore and Cochin and as Diwan of Travancore from 1811.
John Murphy (composer)
John Murphy (born 1965, Liverpool) is a British film composer, legal name John Paul Murphy, known for 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Kick-Ass, The Suicide Squad, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and Superman (2025), and for the widely licensed cues In the House – In a Heartbeat and Adagio in D Minor.
John Murphy Farley
John Murphy Farley (1842–1918) was an Irish-born American prelate, Archbishop of New York from 1902 to 1918, made a cardinal by Pope Pius X in 1911.
John Murray (oceanographer)
Sir John Murray (1841–1914) was a Scottish Canadian oceanographer and marine geologist, a founder of modern oceanography who served on the Challenger Expedition and edited its 50-volume report.
John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl (1929-2012), South African-born hereditary peer, clan chief of Clan Murray, and Colonel-in-Chief of the Atholl Highlanders, succeeded in 1996 as a retired land surveyor.
John Murtha
John Murtha (Jack Murtha, 1932–2010), Pennsylvania's 12th District Democrat in the US House 1974–2010, Marine colonel, Defense Appropriations chair, 2005 Iraq withdrawal critic, Abscam figure, 'King of Pork.'
John Musker
John Edward Musker is an American Disney animator and director who, with Ron Clements, co-directed The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog, and Moana.
John Myburgh
John Myburgh is an Australian intensive care physician and trialist at UNSW Sydney and The George Institute, known for the SAFE, CHEST, and ADRENAL trials.
John Myhill
John Myhill (1923–1987) was an English logician and mathematician, Harvard PhD in 1949 and professor at the University at Buffalo, known for the Myhill–Nerode theorem, the Myhill isomorphism theorem, and constructive set theory.
John Myung
John Myung (born 1967, Chicago) is the American bassist and founding member of Dream Theater, also of Platypus and the Jelly Jam; Berklee-trained, known for six-string Music Man signature basses, three-finger technique, and the 2010 MusicRadar Greatest Bassist poll win.
John N. Bahcall
John N. Bahcall (1934–2005) was an American astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study who built the Standard Solar Model and championed the Hubble Space Telescope.
John N. DuPont
John N. DuPont (born 1964) is an American welding and solidification metallurgist at Lehigh University who won the 2000 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
John N. Mitchell
John N. Mitchell (1913–1988), Nixon's 1968 campaign manager and 67th U.S. Attorney General (1969–1972), later CRP head; convicted in the Watergate cover-up in 1975 and served 19 months, the highest-ranking U.S. official imprisoned.
John N. Nkengasong
John N. Nkengasong is a Cameroonian-born virologist who served as the first Director of the Africa CDC from 2017 to 2022, then led PEPFAR as US Global AIDS Coordinator.
John N. Tsitsiklis
John N. Tsitsiklis (Greek: Γιάννης Ν. Τσιτσικλής), born 1958 in Thessaloniki, is a Greek MIT professor known for work on optimization and reinforcement learning theory.
John N. Vournakis
John N. Vournakis (1939–2018) was an American physical biochemist who studied messenger RNA at MIT, Harvard, and Syracuse, helped clone the first mammalian gene, and co-founded biotech companies.
John N. Weinstein
John N. Weinstein is a physician-scientist in cancer systems biology who spent over 30 years at the National Cancer Institute before joining MD Anderson in 2008.
John N. Whitaker
John N. Whitaker was an American neurologist and immunologist who chaired neurology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 1985 until his death in 2001.
John Naber
John Phillips Naber, American backstroke swimmer, won four golds in world-record time plus a silver at Montreal 1976, set six world records, won 10 NCAA titles for USC, and took the 1977 Sullivan Award.
John Nagel
John Nagel is an American politician and retired Minnesota State Patrol lieutenant who is the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Minnesota's 5th District, facing Ilhan Omar.
John Nance Garner
John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner (1868–1967), Texas Democrat, 32nd U.S. vice president 1933–41 under FDR, former House Speaker, New Deal liaison who later opposed Roosevelt and ran against him in 1940.
John Napier
John Napier of Merchiston (1550–1617) was a Scottish mathematician and theologian who invented logarithms, published the first table of them in 1614, and devised the calculating rods known as Napier's bones.
John Nathaniel Couch
John Nathaniel Couch (1896–1986) was an American mycologist and professor of botany at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for his monograph on Septobasidium and his discovery of Actinoplanes.
John Neff (investor)
John Neff (1931–2019) was an American value investor who managed Vanguard's Windsor Fund from 1964 to 1995, beating the S&P 500 in 23 of 31 years.
John Negroponte
John Negroponte (born 1939, London) is an American diplomat, five-time ambassador (Honduras, Mexico, Philippines, UN, Iraq), first Director of National Intelligence 2005–2007, and Deputy Secretary of State 2007–2009.