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John Pappenheimer
John Pappenheimer (1915–2007) was an American physiologist at Harvard whose work defined the pore theory of capillary permeability and the role of cerebrospinal fluid in controlling breathing.
John Pardon
John Pardon is an American symplectic geometer and professor at the Simons Center, Stony Brook, who won the 2026 Fields Medal for work on holomorphic curves and Fukaya categories.
John Park
John Park (존박), full name John Andrew Park (born 1988), is a Korean-American singer-songwriter in South Korea known for his deep, soulful vocals and as runner-up on Superstar K2 in 2010.
John Parke Custis
John Parke Custis, known as Jack Custis, was a Virginia planter, stepson of George Washington, and member of the Virginia House of Delegates who died at Yorktown in 1781.
John Parr
John Parr (born 1952, Worksop, England), Grammy-nominated English rock singer; best known for the 1985 US No. 1 "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" with David Foster, inspired by Rick Hansen's wheelchair tour, plus "Naughty Naughty" and Hollywood film themes.
John Parrott
John Parrott MBE (born 1964, Liverpool) is an English former snooker player, 1991 World Champion and UK Champion, winner of nine ranking titles, world number 2, later a BBC commentator and A Question of Sport captain.
John Part
John Part, "Darth Maple" (born 1966, Toronto), Canadian darts player and Sky Sports commentator; three-time world champion (1994 BDO, 2003 and 2008 PDC), first non-UK world champion, beat Phil Taylor 7-6 in the 2003 final.
John Partridge (actor)
John Partridge (born 1971, Radcliffe, Lancashire) is an English actor, dancer, and singer best known as Christian Clarke in EastEnders (2008–2016, 382 episodes), Rum Tum Tugger in Cats, and winner of Celebrity MasterChef.
John Pasi
K. John Pasi is a British hematologist who led the first successful gene therapy program for hemophilia A and is a professor at Queen Mary University of London.
John Pasta
John Pasta (1918–1981) was an American physicist who co-authored the 1955 Fermi–Pasta–Ulam report, a founding result of computational physics, and later directed computing research at the National Science Foundation.
John Patrick Amedori
John Patrick Amedori (born 1987, Baltimore) is an American actor and musician known for young Evan Treborn in The Butterfly Effect, Gabe Mitchell in Dear White People, and Jack in Three Women, with a music career in the band Ceesau.
John Patrick Jordan
John Patrick Jordan, American actor known for Larnell in the Evil Bong franchise and Stifler in American Pie Presents: The Book of Love; recent roles include The Accountant 2, Landman, Them, and an upcoming Dark Winds arc.
John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley (born 1950), Bronx-born American playwright, screenwriter, and director; Oscar winner for Moonstruck (1987) and Pulitzer and Tony winner for Doubt, a parable (2005).
John Patteson (bishop)
John Coleridge Patteson, known as Bishop Patteson, was an English Anglican missionary bishop who became the first Bishop of Melanesia in 1861 and was killed on Nukapu in 1871.
John Paul (cell biologist)
John Paul (1922–1994) was a Scottish cell biologist and cancer researcher, founding director of the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow and a pioneer of tissue and cell culture.
John Paul DeJoria
John Paul DeJoria (born 1944, Los Angeles) is an American self-made billionaire who co-founded John Paul Mitchell Systems hair care in 1980 with $700 and Patrón Tequila in 1989, sold to Bacardi for $5.1 billion in 2018, and signs his motto 'success unshared is failure' to his philanthropy.
John Paul Getty III
John Paul Getty III, also known as J. Paul Getty III, was an American heir and grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, kidnapped in Rome in 1973.
John Paul Getty Jr.
John Paul Getty Jr., later Sir Paul Getty, was an American-born oil-fortune heir and philanthropist who gave more than £120 million to British causes and became a British citizen in 1997.
John Paul Goode
John Paul Goode (1862–1932) was an American cartographer and University of Chicago professor who devised the interrupted homolosine projection in 1923 and created the atlas that became Goode's World Atlas.
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (born John Paul, 1747-1792) was a Scottish-born captain in the Continental Navy who raided British waters, defeated HMS Serapis in 1779, served as a rear admiral under Catherine the Great, and died in Paris in 1792; not the Led Zeppelin bassist.
John Paul Jones (musician)
John Paul Jones (born John Baldwin, 1946) is the English bassist, keyboardist, and arranger who founded Led Zeppelin with Jimmy Page in 1968, later working with McCartney, Eno, R.E.M., Diamanda Galás, and Them Crooked Vultures.
John Paul Nazarius
John Paul Nazarius (Giovanni Paolo Nazari) was an Italian Dominican theologian, born in Cremona in 1556, known for his six-volume commentary on Aquinas and disputations against Calvinists.
John Paul Stevens
John Paul Stevens (1920–2019), Supreme Court associate justice 1975–2010, appointed by Ford after Seventh Circuit service; wrote Chevron and Massachusetts v. EPA, 628 dissents, later urged repealing the Second Amendment.
John Paul Vann
John Paul Vann (born John Paul Tripp, 1924–1972), U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and later civilian pacification chief in South Vietnam; Ap Bac critic, III Corps pacification director, first civilian to command troops in a combat zone.
John Paul Wild
John Paul Wild (1923–2008) was an Australian radio physicist who classified the Sun's radio bursts, built the Culgoora radioheliograph, developed the Interscan landing system, and chaired CSIRO from 1978 to 1985.
John Paul Young
John Paul Young (John Inglis Young, born 1950) is a Scottish-born Australian pop singer whose disco hit "Love Is in the Air", written by Vanda and George Young, reached No. 3 in Australia, No. 5 in the UK, and No. 7 in the US in 1978.
John Paulson
John Paulson is an American investor who founded hedge fund Paulson & Co. in 1994 and made his fortune betting against subprime mortgages in 2007.
John Paxson
John Paxson (born 1960, Dayton, Ohio) is a former Notre Dame point guard, 1983 first-round pick, and three-time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls, famous for the 1993 Finals Game 6 title-winning three-pointer, later the Bulls' general manager and executive vice president.
John Payne (actor)
John Howard Payne (1912–1989), American film actor of Fox musicals and film noir; Fred Gailey in Miracle on 34th Street (1947), star-producer of The Restless Gun (1957–59).
John Pecham
John Pecham (c. 1230–1292) was an English Franciscan theologian who taught at Paris and Oxford and served as archbishop of Canterbury from 1279, holding the councils of Reading and Lambeth.