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John Oliver Lang DeLancey
John Oliver Lang DeLancey is an American urogynecologist at the University of Michigan known for showing that pelvic organ prolapse often stems from childbirth muscle injury.
John Oluf Evjen
John Oluf Evjen (1874–1942) was an American Lutheran clergyman, church historian, and professor of theology at Augsburg Seminary in Minneapolis, known for his 1916 study Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630–1674.
John Ørsted Hansen
John Ørsted Hansen (1938–2022), Danish rower of Roforeningen KVIK, Copenhagen; won gold in the men's coxless fours at Tokyo 1964 with Petersen, Helmudt, and Hasløv, plus 1964 European silver and 1966 Henley.
John Ortiz
John Ortiz (John Augustin Ortiz) is an American actor, co-founder of LAByrinth Theater Company with Philip Seymour Hoffman, known for Jack Goes Boating, Fast & Furious, Luck, and Broadway's Anna in the Tropics; distinct from the racehorse trainer and other namesakes.
John Osborn
John Osborn (born 1945) is a British Olympic sailor who won gold in the Tornado catamaran class at the 1976 Montreal Games as crew with his brother-in-law Reg White; both received the MBE in 1977.
John Osborne
John Osborne (1929–1994), English playwright born in Fulham, London; author of Look Back in Anger, premiered 1956 at the Royal Court Theatre, which launched the Angry Young Man label and kitchen-sink realism. Also wrote The Entertainer and the Oscar-winning Tom Jones screenplay.
John Oscar Salvesen
John Oscar Salvesen is an American Republican politician, a handyman from Stone Mountain, Georgia, and the 2026 GOP nominee for the U.S. House in Georgia's 5th District.
John Osteen
John Osteen was an American pastor, televangelist, and author who founded Lakewood Church in Houston in 1959 and built it into a leading Word of Faith congregation.
John Ostrander
John Ostrander, American comic book writer from Chicago; creator of the modern Suicide Squad and Amanda Waller at DC (1987) and co-creator of Grimjack with Timothy Truman at First Comics (1984).
John Otto (drummer)
John Otto (John Everett Otto, born 1977, Jacksonville, Florida) is the jazz-trained drummer and founding member of rap rock band Limp Bizkit, distinct from a same-named composer.
John Ousterhout
John Ousterhout is an American computer scientist and Stanford professor known for the Tcl scripting language, the Sprite operating system, log-structured file systems, and the Raft consensus algorithm.
John Overdeck
John Overdeck is an American investor who co-founded Two Sigma, a New York quantitative hedge fund managing roughly $84 billion, and chairs the Institute for Advanced Study.
John Owen (centenarian)
John Owen (April 16, 1735 – February 24, 1843), also recorded as John Owens, was a Connecticut-born American centenarian, veteran of the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War, who died in Carroll, New York, reportedly aged 107.
John Owen Dominis
John Owen Dominis (1832–1891), American-born Hawaiian royal official and Prince Consort of Queen Liliʻuokalani; governor of Oʻahu and Maui, secretary to Kamehameha IV and V, died August 27, 1891 at Washington Place.
John Owen Lowe
John Owen Lowe (born 1995) is an American actor, writer, and producer, son of Rob Lowe and Sheryl Berkoff; co-creator and star of Netflix's Unstable, writer on 9-1-1: Lone Star, and lead of Grace Point.
John P. Adelman
John P. Adelman is a neuroscientist at the Vollum Institute in Portland, Oregon, who cloned the SK potassium channel family and showed calmodulin gates them.
John P. Atkinson
John P. Atkinson is an American rheumatologist and immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known internationally for research on the complement system.
John P. Bailey
John Preston Bailey, born 1951 in Wheeling, West Virginia, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, appointed by George W. Bush in 2007.
John P. Bilezikian
John P. Bilezikian is an American endocrinologist at Columbia University specializing in metabolic bone disease, known for long-term hyperparathyroidism research and international guidelines on osteoporosis and parathyroid disorders.
John P. Blass
John P. Blass (1937–2023) was an Austrian-born American physician and neurological researcher at the Burke Neurological Institute and Weill Cornell Medicine, known for linking thiamine-dependent enzyme deficits to Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.
John P. Burrows
John P. Burrows is a British atmospheric physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society, and professor at the University of Bremen who led the GOME and SCIAMACHY satellite instruments.
John P. Chute
John P. Chute (John Chute) is an American hematologist and stem cell biologist who directs the Division of Hematology and Cellular Therapy at Cedars-Sinai Cancer since 2020.
John P. Connolly
John P. Connolly is an American environmental engineer and National Academy of Engineering member whose contaminant bioaccumulation models guided remediation of the Hudson River and other Superfund sites.
John P. Cooke
John P. Cooke is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine and vascular biology, a Stanford professor emeritus who led cardiovascular research at Houston Methodist from 2013.
John P. Cronan
John P. Cronan, also known as John Peter Cronan, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York since 2020.
John P. Daane
John P. Daane is an American semiconductor executive who led Altera as president, CEO, and chairman from 2000 until Intel bought the company for about $16.7 billion in 2015.
John P. DeVincenzo
John P. DeVincenzo, also known as John DeVincenzo, is an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician-scientist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis known for RSV antiviral research.
John P. Donoghue
John P. Donoghue is an American neuroscientist and neuroengineer, the H.M. Wriston Professor at Brown University, who pioneered brain–computer interfaces and won the 2026 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
John P. Giesy
John P. Giesy is a Canadian-based ecotoxicologist who first reported perfluorinated compounds in the environment and led the 2001 global survey of PFOS in wildlife.
John P. Gilbert
John P. Gilbert, also known as John Phil Gilbert, is an American jurist and senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois since 2014.