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John Nelson
John Nelson (John Maurer Nelson, born 1948, Chicago) is an American freestyle swimmer, Yale class of 1970, with three Olympic medals: 1964 silver 1500 m freestyle, 1968 bronze 200 m freestyle, and 1968 gold 4x200 m relay; he held the 400 m freestyle world record (4:11.8) for one day in 1966.
John Nelson Darby
John Nelson Darby (1800–1882) was a Church of Ireland clergyman who became a principal leader of the Plymouth Brethren, whose dispensational theology, including the pre-tribulation rapture, spread widely among evangelicals.
John Nettles
John Nettles, full name John Vivian Drummond Nettles, is an English actor and author known for playing Jim Bergerac in Bergerac and DCI Tom Barnaby in Midsomer Murders.
John Neumann
John Neumann, born John Nepomucene Neumann, was a Bohemian-born Redemptorist missionary and fourth Bishop of Philadelphia from 1852, canonized in 1977 as the first male US saint.
John Neville (actor)
John Reginald Neville (1925-2011), British-born Canadian actor and stage director; Old Vic Shakespearean lead, artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse, Citadel, Neptune, and Stratford Festival, and the Well-Manicured Man in The X-Files.
John Newcombe
John Newcombe, 'Newk,' is an Australian former tennis player who captured 26 Grand Slam titles across singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. He was the last Wimbledon champion of the amateur era.
John Newman (singer)
John Newman (born 1990) is an English soul-pop singer from Settle, Yorkshire, known for Love Me Again, Rudimental's Feel the Love, and Calvin Harris's Blame; albums Tribute and Revolve, later a dance-music and DJ career.
John Newport Langley
John Newport Langley (1852–1925) was a British physiologist at Cambridge who mapped the autonomic nervous system, coined "autonomic" and "parasympathetic", and proposed the receptive substance concept.
John Newsom–Davis
John Newsom-Davis was a British neurologist and clinical scientist who established the autoimmune basis of myasthenia gravis, traced its antibodies to the thymus, and died in 2007.
John Newton
John Newton (1725–1807) was an English sailor, slave-ship captain, and Anglican clergyman who wrote "Amazing Grace" at Olney and mentored William Wilberforce in abolishing the slave trade.
John Newton (scientist)
John Newton (1822–1895) was an American civil engineer and Union Army general who blasted the Hell Gate reefs from New York Harbor and served as Chief of Engineers from 1884 to 1886.
John Ngai
John Ngai is an American neuroscientist who studies the olfactory system and has directed the NIH BRAIN Initiative since 2020, after 27 years on the UC Berkeley faculty.
John Ngugi
John Ngugi (John Ngugi Kamau), Kenyan distance runner born 1962; five-time World Cross Country champion (1986-89, 1992) and 1988 Seoul Olympic 5000m gold medallist; banned 1993, reinstated 1995.
John Nicholson
John Nicholson (जॉन निकोल्सन) was an East India Company soldier and Punjab administrator who led the recapture of Delhi in 1857, dying of wounds nine days later.
John Niederhauser
John Niederhauser was an American plant pathologist known as "Mr. Potato" who bred late blight resistance into potato varieties and won the 1990 World Food Prize.
John Noakes
John Noakes (1934-2017), English TV presenter and actor, longest-serving Blue Peter host (1965-1978), famous for daredevil stunts, Shep the collie, and the catchphrase "Get down, Shep!" Distinct from Prof Tim Noakes, the nutritionist.
John Noble
John Noble, born 1948 in Port Pirie, Australia, is an actor and theatre director known as Denethor in The Lord of the Rings and Walter Bishop in Fringe; not the Noble Corporation oil driller or the Scottish electrical engineer of the same name.
John Noel
John Noel: two 1924 Olympic gold medalists, John Hopkins Noel (1888-1939), Nashville trapshooter, US team gold, Paris; and John Baptist Lucius Noel (1890-1989), British Everest photographer, alpinism gold, Chamonix.
John Nord
John Nord (born 1959), also known as Nord the Barbarian, The Viking, and The Berzerker, is a retired American professional wrestler from Robbinsdale, Minnesota, active 1984-1998 in the AWA, WWF, and WCW, known for the "Huss" Viking gimmick and later a 2016 WWE brain-injury lawsuit.
John Norrie
John Norrie is a British medical statistician and clinical trialist, Chair of Medical Statistics at the University of Edinburgh and former Director of its Clinical Trials Unit.
John Norton
John Norton refers to several unrelated figures: American Olympic medalists John Kelley Norton (1920 400m hurdles silver) and John Dominic Norton (1924 water polo bronze), plus an Australian newspaper proprietor, a Mohawk chief, and a Puritan minister.
John Nott
Sir John Nott (1932–2024) was Britain's Conservative defence secretary 1981–1983, MP for St Ives. His 1981 defence review cut the Royal Navy surface fleet by about a third; the Falklands War largely reversed it and ended his career.
John O. Almquist
John O. Almquist (1921–2015) was an American dairy physiologist at Penn State who pioneered milk extenders and frozen bull semen, making cattle artificial insemination practical, and shared the 1981 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
John O. Hallquist
John O. Hallquist is an American computational mechanics engineer who created the DYNA3D finite element code at Lawrence Livermore and founded LSTC to commercialize it as LS-DYNA.
John O. Hunter
John O. Hunter is a gastroenterologist and emeritus professor at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, known for dietary treatments for Crohn's disease and research on food intolerance, colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome.
John O. Marsden
John O. Marsden is a metallurgical engineer specializing in copper and gold extraction who served as president of Freeport-McMoRan Mining Company and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010.
John O. Parker
John O. Parker, known as Jack Parker, was a Canadian cardiologist at Queen's University who pioneered coronary angiography in Canada and whose nitrate tolerance studies reshaped angina treatment.
John o' Groats
John o' Groats is a Caithness village of about 300 on the Scottish mainland's north coast, named for Dutch ferryman Jan de Groot, famed as the northern end of Britain's Land's End to John o' Groats end-to-end journeys and as a ferry gateway to Orkney.
John O'Callaghan
John O'Callaghan, often known as JOC, is an Irish trance DJ and producer, founder of the Subculture label and best known for his 2007 track "Big Sky".
John O'Farrell (author)
John O'Farrell, British satirist and author of Things Can Only Get Better; wrote for Spitting Image and Have I Got News For You, Chicken Run screenplays, Guardian and Independent columns, and novels including Family Politics (2024).