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John Taylor (manufacturer)
John Taylor (c.1711–1775) was a Birmingham manufacturer of buttons and japanned ware who co-founded Taylors & Lloyds in 1765, the bank from which Lloyds Banking Group descends.
John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018), American schoolteacher and author, New York State Teacher of the Year 1991, resigned via Wall Street Journal op-ed; wrote Dumbing Us Down and The Underground History of American Education criticizing compulsory schooling and promoting homeschooling and unschooling.
John Taylor junior
John Taylor junior (died 1814) was an English banker who co-founded Taylors & Lloyds in Birmingham in 1765, the partnership from which Lloyds Bank descends.
John Tejada
John Tejada is a Vienna-born, Los Angeles-based electronic music producer, DJ, and CalArts professor who founded Palette Recordings and has released five albums on Kompakt.
John Tempesta
John Joseph Tempesta (born 1964, New York) is an American heavy metal drummer who has played with Exodus, Testament, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, Helmet, Motor Sister, and The Cult since 2006, and has a signature TAMA JT147 snare drum.
John Templeton Bowen
John Templeton Bowen (1857–1940) was an American dermatologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the first Edward Wigglesworth Professor of Dermatology, who described Bowen's disease in 1912.
John Templeton Foundation
John Templeton Foundation: Pennsylvania private foundation founded 1987 by Sir John Templeton, ~$3.5B endowment, funding interdisciplinary science, philosophy, and religion research, plus the Templeton Prize.
John Tengo Jabavu
John Tengo Jabavu (1859–1921) was a Xhosa educationist, newspaper editor, and politician in the Cape Colony who founded Imvo Zabantsundu, the first significant African newspaper there, in 1884.
John Tenniel
Sir John Tenniel (1820–1914), Victorian illustrator and chief Punch political cartoonist, illustrated Lewis Carroll's Alice books (42 illustrations, 1865/1871) and was the first cartoonist knighted, in 1893.
John Tenta
John Tenta, also known as John Anthony Tenta Jr. and Kototenzan, was a Canadian sumo wrestler turned professional wrestler, best known in the WWF as Earthquake.
John Terborgh
John Terborgh, born 1936, is an American tropical ecologist and conservation biologist, James B. Duke Professor at Duke University, known for decades of research in Peru's Manu National Park and work on trophic cascades.
John Terry
John Terry (born 1980, London), English centre-back and Chelsea captain 2004-2017; 717 Chelsea appearances, 15 major trophies including five Premier League titles, record 41 PL defender goals and 214 clean sheets; England captain 34 times; later Aston Villa assistant coach.
John Terry (actor)
John Terry, American actor born 1950 in Vero Beach, Florida; known as Lt. Lockhart in Full Metal Jacket, Felix Leiter in The Living Daylights, and Christian Shephard on Lost, distinct from the Chelsea footballer of the same name.
John Tesh
John Tesh (born 1952, Garden City, NY) is an American pianist, composer, and broadcaster, Entertainment Tonight co-host 1986–1996, composer of NBC's NBA theme Roundball Rock, with six Emmys and 8 million records sold.
John Teufel
John D. Teufel is an American experimental physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, known for cooling a micromechanical membrane to its quantum ground state and demonstrating macroscopic entanglement.
John Textor
John Textor is an American businessman who built Eagle Football Holdings, holding Lyon, Botafogo, and Crystal Palace stakes, before its creditor placed the group into administration in March 2026.
John the Apostle
John the Apostle, also known as John the Beloved, was one of the Twelve, son of Zebedee and brother of James, traditionally identified as author of the Fourth Gospel and Revelation.
John the Baptist
John the Baptist, also known as John the Forerunner, was a first-century Jewish preacher executed by Herod Antipas at Machaerus, venerated in Christianity, Islam, and Mandaeism.
John the Baptist in Islam
John the Baptist in Islam describes Yahya (يحيى), the Quranic name for John the Baptist, son of Zakariyya, a chaste prophet whose shrine in the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus holds his head.
John the Evangelist
John the Evangelist is the traditional name for the author of the Gospel of John and the Johannine epistles, traditionally dying at Ephesus about A.D. 100.
John the Exarch
John the Exarch (Йоан Екзарх) was a medieval Bulgarian writer, translator, and senior hierarch of the Bulgarian Church at the court of Symeon I, author of the Hexaemeron.
John the Fearless
John the Fearless (Jean sans Peur, Jan zonder Vrees, 1371–1419), second Valois Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders; assassinated Louis of Orléans in 1407, allied with Henry V, and was murdered at Montereau in 1419.
John the Ripper
John the Ripper is a free, open-source password cracker created by Solar Designer in 1996 to detect weak Unix passwords by recovering them from password hashes.
John Theodor Lund
John Theodor Lund (1842–1913) was a Norwegian businessman and Liberal politician, mayor of Bergen 1888–1890, a Storting member, and a pioneer of Norwegian peace politics on the Nobel Committee.
John Thomas
John Curtis Thomas (1941-2013), American high jumper, first man to clear seven feet indoors, four 1960 outdoor world records ending at 2.229 m, Olympic bronze 1960 and silver 1964 behind Valeriy Brumel.
John Thomas Duckworth
Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 1st Baronet (1748–1817), was a British Royal Navy admiral known for the Battle of San Domingo in 1806 and the 1807 Dardanelles expedition.
John Thomas Patterson (geneticist)
John Thomas Patterson (1878–1960) was an American geneticist and embryologist who taught at the University of Texas from 1908 to 1955 and wrote Evolution in the Genus Drosophila (1952).
John Thomas sign
John Thomas sign, also called Throckmorton sign, is a humorous radiology term for a penile shadow on an AP pelvic X-ray pointing toward a hip or pelvic fracture; systematic review found it no better than chance.
John Thompson (basketball)
John Thompson Jr. (1941-2020), Georgetown Hoyas head coach 1972-1999, first Black head coach to win the 1984 NCAA basketball championship; 596-239 record, Hall of Fame 1999.
John Thompson III
John Thompson III is an American basketball coach, son of Hall of Fame Georgetown coach John Thompson Jr., who won 346 games at Princeton and Georgetown and reached the 2007 Final Four.