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John Ryals
John A. Ryals is an American molecular biologist who established salicylic acid's role in plant systemic acquired resistance at Ciba-Geigy, then founded Paradigm Genetics and co-founded Metabolon.
John Ryder (boxer)
John Ryder (born 1988, Islington, London), nicknamed The Gorilla, is a retired English southpaw super middleweight, two-time interim world champion (WBA 2019, WBO 2022), who lost a 2023 undisputed title challenge to Canelo Alvarez.
John Ryland
John Ryland (1753–1825) was an English Particular Baptist minister at Northampton and Bristol who co-founded the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792 and baptized William Carey in 1783.
John Rzeznik
John (Johnny) Rzeznik, born 1965 in Buffalo, is lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the Goo Goo Dolls, known for "Iris" and "Name," custom guitar tunings, and 2008 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction.
John S. Brownstein
John S. Brownstein is a computational epidemiologist who is Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children's Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor, known for creating HealthMap and pioneering digital epidemiology.
John S. Chen
John S. Chen is a Hong Kong-born American technology executive who led Sybase's turnaround and served as BlackBerry's Executive Chair and CEO from 2013 to 2023.
John S. Chipman
John Somerset Chipman (1926–2022) was a Canadian-born economist at the University of Minnesota, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993, known for his survey of international trade theory.
John S. Condeelis
John S. Condeelis is a cell biologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for intravital imaging of cancer metastasis and the TMEM doorway concept.
John S. Duncan
John S. Duncan, born 1955, is a British neurologist specializing in epilepsy, a consultant at Queen Square since 1989 and Professor of Neurology at UCL since 1998.
John S. Floras
John S. Floras, also known as John Floras, is a Canadian cardiologist and University of Toronto professor known for research on the autonomic nervous system in heart failure.
John S. Fordtran
John S. Fordtran (1931–2025) was an American gastroenterologist whose studies of intestinal absorption reshaped the treatment of diarrheal disease, and co-author of the 1973 textbook Gastrointestinal Disease.
John S. Foster, Jr.
John S. Foster, Jr. was an American physicist and nuclear weapon designer who directed Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and served as the Pentagon's chief of defense research from 1965 to 1973.
John S. Langford
John S. Langford III is an American aerospace engineer who founded Aurora Flight Sciences in 1989 and Electra.aero, and led the record-setting Daedalus human-powered aircraft.
John S. Mattick
John S. Mattick is an Australian molecular biologist at UNSW Sydney who argues that most non-coding DNA, long dismissed as junk, is a regulatory architecture transacted through RNA.
John S. Mayo
John S. Mayo is an American electrical engineer and retired president of AT&T Bell Laboratories known for leading the US telephone network's conversion from analog to digital technology.
John S. McCain Jr.
John S. McCain Jr. (John Sidney McCain Jr.), 1911-1981, U.S. Navy admiral; submarine commander in World War II, Commander in Chief U.S. Pacific Command 1968-1972 during the Vietnam War, father of Senator John McCain III.
John S. McCain Sr.
John Sidney "Slew" McCain Sr. (1884–1945) was a U.S. Navy admiral, pioneer naval aviator, and commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force (TF-38) under Halsey; posthumously promoted to full admiral in 1949, distinct from his admiral son and senator grandson.
John S. McNown
John S. McNown (1916–1998) was an American hydraulic engineer, dean of engineering at the University of Kansas, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
John S. Middleton
John S. Middleton (born 1953) is an American billionaire who sold the family cigar maker John Middleton Inc. to Altria for $2.9 billion in 2007 and is managing partner and control person of the Philadelphia Phillies.
John S. Mosby
John Singleton Mosby (1833–1916), the 'Gray Ghost,' commanded the 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, Mosby's Rangers, Confederate partisan raiders in northern Virginia; later a Republican, Grant ally, and U.S. consul to Hong Kong.
John S. Najarian
John S. Najarian (1927–2020) was an American transplant surgeon who chaired surgery at the University of Minnesota from 1967 to 1993 and developed the anti-rejection drug antilymphocyte globulin.
John S. Newman
John S. Newman is an American chemical engineer and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley whose Doyle-Fuller-Newman model is the benchmark physics-based description of lithium-ion battery behavior.
John S. O’Brien
John S. O'Brien (John Smith O'Brien) was an American physician and biochemist who discovered the enzyme deficiency causing Tay-Sachs disease and identified the saposin proteins, lysosomal activator proteins.
John S. O’Neill
John S. O’Neill is a circadian biologist who leads a group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for showing that circadian clocks keep time without gene transcription.
John S. Parkinson
John S. Parkinson is an American geneticist at the University of Utah known for mapping the genes and molecular mechanism of bacterial chemotaxis in E. coli.
John S. Rodgers
John S. Rodgers is an American politician and farmer serving as the 84th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont since 2025, having switched from Democrat to Republican in 2024.
John S. Samuels III
John S. Samuels III was an American lawyer and coal industry executive who built a coal empire after buying the Leckie Smokeless Coal Company in 1973.
John S. Steinhart
John S. Steinhart was an American geophysicist who worked at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and is known for the Steinhart–Hart thermistor equation.
John S. Tsang
John S. Tsang, also known as John Tsang, is a systems immunologist and Yale professor who studies why vaccine responses vary and built a metric of immune health.
John S. Tse
John S. Tse is a Canadian computational materials scientist and Tier I Canada Research Chair at the University of Saskatchewan, known for high-pressure studies of ice and dense hydrogen.