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John Swinney
John Swinney, born 1964 in Edinburgh, is Scotland's seventh First Minister and SNP leader since 2024, formerly the longest serving Deputy First Minister under Sturgeon, and led the SNP to a fifth straight Holyrood win in 2026.
John Swinton of Kimmerghame
Major-General Sir John Swinton of Kimmerghame was a British Army officer who commanded the Household Division and London District from 1976 to 1979, and the father of actress Tilda Swinton.
John Sykes
John Sykes (1959–2024/25), English hard rock guitarist from Reading, played with Tygers of Pan Tang, Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, and Blue Murder; co-wrote Whitesnake's 1987 album including Is This Love and Still of the Night.
John Symes
John Symes (1879-1944), English cricketer with Devon & Somerset Wanderers and Crediton CC; won gold in the 1900 Paris Olympic cricket match, opening both innings for 16 runs, and preserved the match's only detailed scorecard.
John T. Andrews
John T. Andrews, born in 1937 in England, is a glacial geologist and paleoclimatologist at the University of Colorado Boulder who received the 2016 Penrose Medal.
John T. Cacioppo
John T. Cacioppo (1951–2018) was an American psychologist at the University of Chicago who founded social neuroscience and transformed the scientific study of loneliness, also developing the elaboration likelihood model.
John T. Christian
John T. Christian (1936–2022) was an American geotechnical engineer who brought computer methods and probabilistic reliability analysis into soil mechanics and earthquake engineering, co-writing the first general-purpose slope stability program.
John T. Curnutte
John T. Curnutte is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who showed that chronic granulomatous disease stems from defects in NADPH oxidase, the superoxide-producing enzyme of white blood cells.
John T. Fallon
John T. Fallon is an American cardiovascular pathologist, trained at Albany Medical College and Harvard, known for the 1987 myocarditis classification behind the Dallas criteria and for endomyocardial biopsy consensus standards.
John T. Fowlkes, Jr.
John T. Fowlkes, Jr., born in 1951, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the Western District of Tennessee until his retirement in January 2026.
John T. Groves
John T. Groves is a bioorganic and bioinorganic chemist who has held the Hugh Stott Taylor Chair at Princeton since 1985, known for the oxygen rebound mechanism and C-H fluorination.
John T. Harty
John T. Harty is an American immunologist holding the Pathology Endowed Chair at the University of Iowa, known for research on CD8+ T cell memory and malaria immunity.
John T. Lis
John T. Lis is an American molecular biologist at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015, known for discovering that RNA polymerase II pauses near gene promoters.
John T. Morgan
John Tyler Morgan (1824–1907), Alabama Democratic senator 1877–1907, Confederate brigadier general, advocate of the Nicaraguan canal and of Black deportation; distinct from President John Tyler.
John T. O’Brien
John T. O'Brien is a British psychiatrist and dementia researcher, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, known for work on Lewy body dementia.
John T. Potts
John T. Potts Jr., born 1932, is an American endocrinologist who established the modern understanding of parathyroid hormone and calcium metabolism at NIH and Massachusetts General Hospital.
John T. Schiller
John T. Schiller is an American virologist at the National Cancer Institute who, with Douglas Lowy, developed the virus-like particle technology behind the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix.
John T. Scopes
John T. Scopes (1900–1970), American teacher and petroleum geologist, defendant in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee; convicted under the Butler Act, fined $100, conviction overturned, then a Gulf Oil and United Gas geologist.
John T. Shepherd
John T. Shepherd (1919–2011) was a Northern Ireland-born cardiovascular physiologist at the Mayo Clinic and president of the American Heart Association from 1975 to 1976.
John T. Shepherd (judge)
John T. Shepherd, born in 1987 in El Dorado, Arkansas, is a United States district judge for the Western District of Arkansas, confirmed by the Senate in April 2026.
John T. Walton
John T. Walton, also known as John Thomas Walton, was the second son of Walmart founder Sam Walton, a Silver Star–decorated Special Forces medic, and a leading school-choice philanthropist.
John T. Wei
John T. Wei is an American urologist and outcomes researcher at the University of Michigan, known for the EPIC quality-of-life instrument and the OPUS midurethral sling trial.
John T. Yates
John T. Yates (1935–2015) was an American surface chemist who developed ESDIAD, a technique for imaging chemical bond directions on crystal surfaces, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.
John Talabot
John Talabot is the alias of Oriol Riverola, a Spanish DJ and producer based in Barcelona, best known for his 2012 debut album ƒIN and the Hivern Discs label.
John Tamberlane
John Tamberlane is an American banker who co-founded Signature Bank of New York in 2001 after two decades at Republic National Bank, serving as vice chairman until 2022.
John Tamihere
John Tamihere is a New Zealand politician and lawyer who was a Labour MP and minister from 1999 and has been president of Te Pāti Māori since 2022.
John Tate (mathematician)
John Tate (1925–2019) was an American number theorist who taught at Harvard and the University of Texas, created the Tate curve and Tate conjecture, and won the 2010 Abel Prize.
John Tauler
John Tauler (Johannes Tauler, c. 1300–1361) was a German Dominican mystic of Strasbourg, one of the great preachers of the Middle Ages, remembered for about eighty German sermons.
John Tavares
John Tavares, born 1990 in Mississauga, Ontario, is a Canadian NHL center drafted first overall in 2009 by the Islanders, former captain of both the Islanders and Toronto Maple Leafs, with 1,165 career points and 2014 Olympic gold.
John Taylor (bass guitarist)
Nigel John Taylor (born 1960, Birmingham) is the English bass guitarist and co-founder of new-wave band Duran Duran, also of The Power Station; known for funky basslines on "Rio", Peavey Cirrus and Dingwall signature basses, and a 1997–2001 solo and acting interlude.