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John Peel
John Peel (John Robert Parker Ravenscroft) was a British disc jockey who championed new music on BBC Radio 1 for nearly four decades until his death in 2004.
John Peers
John Peers (John William Peers, born 1988), Australian doubles tennis specialist; 30 ATP doubles titles, 2017 Australian Open men's doubles with Kontinen, world No. 2, and Paris 2024 Olympic men's doubles gold with Ebden.
John Pender
Sir John Pender (1816–1896) was a Scottish textile merchant who became Britain's leading promoter of submarine telegraph cables, founding Telcon in 1864 and the Eastern Telegraph Company in 1872.
John Pendry
John Pendry is a British theoretical physicist at Imperial College London, regarded as the founder of metamaterials and known for the perfect lens and invisibility cloak.
John Pennel
John Pennel (1940–1993), American pole vaulter, first man to clear 17 feet (5.20 m, 1963); fiberglass-pole pioneer, four ratified world records, best 5.44 m (1969), Olympian 1964 and 1968, Sullivan Award winner.
John Pentland Mahaffy
John Pentland Mahaffy (1839–1919) was an Irish classical scholar and clergyman, provost of Trinity College Dublin, known for his histories of Greek life and the Ptolemaic dynasty.
John Perkins (author)
John Perkins is an American author and critic who served as a chief economist from 1971 to 1981. His 2004 book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, details his work.
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow (1947-2018), Wyoming rancher, Grateful Dead lyricist, and EFF co-founder, wrote the 1996 Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, the defining cyberlibertarian manifesto against government control of the internet.
John Perryman
John Perryman is a U.S. Navy submariner and the 17th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, sworn in September 8, 2025; former Fleet Master Chief of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, distinct from Australian naval historian John Perryman.
John Peter Lesley
John Peter Lesley (1819–1903) was an American geologist, a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences, and director of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania.
John Peter Zenger
John Peter Zenger (1697–1746), German-born New York printer of the New-York Weekly Journal, acquitted of seditious libel in 1735 after Andrew Hamilton's truth-as-defense argument; a jury-nullification landmark for American press freedom.
John Peterman
John Peterman is an American retail entrepreneur who founded the J. Peterman Company in 1987, lost it in a 1999 bankruptcy, and bought it back.
John Peters (epidemiologist)
John M. Peters (1935–2010) was an American epidemiologist at the University of Southern California who created the Children's Health Study and showed that air pollution slows children's lung growth.
John Peterson (South Carolina politician)
John Peterson is an American Republican politician and the 2026 nominee for the U.S. House in South Carolina's 6th District, who also leads a Charleston County GOP precinct.
John Pethica
Sir John Bernard Pethica is a physicist best known for inventing nanoindentation and for work that paved the way for atomic force microscopy; he was elected FRS in 1999 and knighted in 2014.
John Petrucci
John Petrucci (born 1967), also known as John Peter Petrucci, is an American guitarist, producer, and lyricist and founding member of Dream Theater and Liquid Tension Experiment. Known for Berklee origins, the Music Man Majesty and Mesa/Boogie JP-2C signature gear, and solo albums Suspended Animation and Terminal Velocity.
John Philip Simons
John Philip Simons is a British chemist known for pioneering laser-based techniques in photochemistry and molecular reaction dynamics, and winner of the Royal Society's Davy Medal.
John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), "The March King," American composer and conductor; 17th Director of the U.S. Marine Band 1880-1892, then led the civilian Sousa Band on 15,000+ concerts; wrote "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and roughly 100-137 marches.
John Phillip Law
John Phillip Law (1937-2008), American actor, played Pygar in Barbarella, the title role in Danger: Diabolik, and a Soviet submariner in The Russians Are Coming; also Death Rides a Horse and The Love Machine.
John Phillips (musician)
John Phillips, known as Papa John Phillips, was an American musician who founded the Mamas and the Papas and wrote "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday".
John Pickering (judge)
John Pickering, New Hampshire federal district judge, first federal official impeached and removed (1803-1804) on charges of intoxication, profanity, and mishandling a trial, in largely party-line votes.
John Pierre Burr
John Pierre Burr (1792-1864) was an African-American Philadelphia barber, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad conductor, son of Vice President Aaron Burr and Mary Emmons of Calcutta; recognized by the Burr family in 2018-2019.
John Pike
John Franklin Pike (1861–1919) was a British trap shooter who won gold in team trap at the 1908 London Olympics, scored 77 there, and finished =12th in the individual trap event.
John Pilger
John Pilger (1939-2023), Australian-born investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Britain from 1962; Daily Mirror chief foreign correspondent, maker of over 60 documentaries including Year Zero (1979) on Cambodia, twice British Journalist of the Year.
John Pilkington (shipbroker)
John Pilkington (1820–1890) was a Liverpool shipbroker who, with Henry Threlfall Wilson, founded in 1845 the firm from which the original White Star Line grew, leaving in 1856.
John Piña Craven
John Piña Craven (1924–2015) was an American ocean engineer who, as chief scientist of the Navy's Special Projects Office, led Cold War deep-ocean programs and developed Bayesian search theory.
John Pinette
John Pinette, American stand-up comedian and actor (1962 or 1964 to 2014), known for food-centered clean comedy, the 'Nay-nay' bit, Frank Sinatra and Hairspray, and the Seinfeld finale.
John Piper (theologian)
John Piper, born in 1946, is an American Reformed evangelical pastor who led Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis for 33 years and founded Desiring God.
John Pius Boland
John Pius Boland (1870–1958), Irish lawyer and nationalist MP for South Kerry, won men's singles and doubles tennis gold at Athens 1896, the first Olympic tennis champion, competing for Great Britain.
John Player & Sons
John Player & Sons, known as Player's, was a Nottingham tobacco manufacturer founded by John Player, best known for Navy Cut cigarettes and its sailor's head trademark.