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John Podesta
John Podesta (born 1949), American Democratic operative and lawyer; Clinton staff secretary, deputy chief of staff, and fourth chief of staff (1998-2001); Obama transition co-chair and counselor; Center for American Progress CEO; Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign chairman; Biden climate adviser succeeding John Kerry.
John Podhoretz
John Podhoretz, also called JPod, is an American conservative commentator, editor of Commentary magazine since January 2009, son of Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter, Weekly Standard cofounder, former New York Post editorial-page editor, and Reagan speechwriter.
John Popper
John Popper (born 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, and harmonica player, best known as frontman of the jam band Blues Traveler, which he co-founded in the late 1980s.
John Pordage
John Pordage (1607–1681) was an English Anglican clergyman and Christian theosophist, ejected from his Berkshire rectory in 1654 for heresy and visions, and later reinstated.
John Porter (musician, born 1947)
John Porter (born 1947, Leeds, England) is an English producer, engineer, remixer, and guitarist, not the Polish-based John Porter born 1950. Known for producing The Smiths and Billy Bragg, playing bass on Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure, and producing Bryan Ferry's These Foolish Things.
John Postans
John Musgrove Postans (1869–1958), British farmer and trap shooter; won 1908 Olympic gold in men's team trap with Great Britain 1, withdrew from the individual trap after a Canadian re-shoot objection.
John Potter
John Potter (c. 1674–1747) was an English churchman who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1737 to 1747, after twenty-two years as Bishop of Oxford.
John Poulakidas
John Poulakidas (born 2003) is an American shooting guard for the Dallas Mavericks on a two-way contract with the Texas Legends; undrafted 2025 Yale graduate, Ivy scoring leader, and 40%+ three-point shooter.
John Powell
John Powell (John Gates Powell, 1947-2022), American discus thrower, Olympic bronze medalist 1976 and 1984, 1975 world record holder at 69.08 m, personal best 71.26 m, 1987 World silver at age 40, USATF Hall of Fame 2019.
John Powell (film composer)
John Powell (born 1963) is an English film composer behind the Bourne scores, How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Wicked, blending orchestra with electronics; also a concert and choral composer.
John Powers Middleton
John Powers Middleton (born 1984, Philadelphia) is an American film and TV producer, son of Phillies owner John S. Middleton; known for Bates Motel, The Lego Movie, The Disaster Artist, Good Boys, Nimona, and The Affleck/Middleton Project with Casey Affleck.
John Preer Jr.
John Preer Jr., also known as John Randolph Preer Jr., was an American geneticist at Indiana University who studied Paramecium for seven decades and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
John Prescott
John Prescott, Baron Prescott (1938-2024), British Labour politician, MP for Hull East 1970-2010 and the UK's longest-serving deputy prime minister under Tony Blair, 1997-2007, known for Kyoto, Two Jags, and the 2001 egg punch.
John Preskill
John Preskill, born 1953, is an American theoretical physicist at Caltech who has worked on quantum computing since the mid-1990s and coined the terms quantum supremacy and NISQ.
John Prine
John Prine (1946-2020) was an American country-folk singer-songwriter from Maywood, Illinois, known for "Angel from Montgomery" and "Paradise," Oh Boy Records, and four Grammy Awards including posthumous 2021 wins.
John Procter
John Procter (1849–1911) was an English Dominican priest who served as provincial of the English Dominican Province from 1894 to 1902 and wrote The Rosary Guide for Priests and People.
John Proctor (Salem witch trials)
John Proctor (Salem witch trials): Salem-area farmer and tavern keeper, husband of Elizabeth Proctor, hanged for witchcraft August 19, 1692; subject of an Ipswich petition and Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
John Proctor Is the Villain
John Proctor Is the Villain is a play by Kimberly Belflower in which Georgia high school girls studying The Crucible question its hero during #MeToo; Broadway 2025, seven Tony nominations, Sadie Sink starring.
John Profumo
John Profumo, known as Jack, was a British Conservative politician and 5th Baron Profumo, Secretary of State for War from 1960 until his 1963 resignation over the Christine Keeler affair.
John Puckett
John Puckett is an American businessman who co-founded Caribou Coffee in Minnesota in 1992 with his wife Kim, building it into the country's second-largest company-owned coffeehouse chain.
John Pule
John Pule (John Puhiatau Pule), born 1962 in Liku, Niue, is a Niuean New Zealand painter, poet, and novelist who adapts the nineteenth-century Niuean art of hiapo barkcloth into contemporary painting.
John Pulman
John Pulman (Herbert John Pulman, 1923-1998), English snooker player, eight-time World Snooker Champion who held the title continuously 1957-1968 in the challenge-match era; 1946 English Amateur Champion, later ITV commentator.
John Punch (slave)
John Punch (also Bunch), African servant in Virginia sentenced by the General Court in 1640 to lifelong servitude after running away with two white indentured servants; first documented slave-for-life in the English colonies.
John Purchas
John Purchas (1823–1872) was a Church of England clergyman of St James's Chapel, Brighton, prosecuted for ritualist vestments in Hebbert v. Purchas, decided against him in 1871.
John Puskas
John D. Puskas is an American cardiothoracic surgeon known for off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery on the beating heart, and for major trials comparing it with conventional bypass.
John Putch
John Putch (born 1961, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania), son of Jean Stapleton, is an American actor turned director known for One Day at a Time, the Route 30 indie trilogy, and Hallmark's Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story.
John Pyper-Ferguson
John Pyper-Ferguson (born 1964, Mordialloc, Australia) is an Australian-Canadian actor known as Tex on The Last Ship, Jack Soloff on Suits, Bill Cadogan on The 100, and Charley Hecker in Unforgiven.
John Q.
John Q. is a 2002 American drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes, in which Denzel Washington plays a father who takes a hospital emergency room hostage over his son's transplant.
John Q. Trojanowski
John Q. Trojanowski (John Trojanowski, 1946–2022) was an American neuropathologist at the University of Pennsylvania who identified tau in Alzheimer's tangles, alpha-synuclein in Lewy bodies, and TDP-43 in ALS.
John Quackenbush
John Quackenbush is an American computational biologist, chair of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.