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John Tunstall
John Tunstall, also known as John Henry Tunstall, was an English-born merchant and rancher in Lincoln County, New Mexico, whose 1878 killing sparked the Lincoln County War.
John Turner
John Napier Turner (1929–2020), Canadian lawyer and 17th prime minister, led Canada 79 days in 1984 after winning the Liberal leadership over Chrétien; earlier justice and finance minister, later opposition leader through the 1988 free trade election.
John Turturro
John Turturro (John Michael Turturro, born 1957, Brooklyn) is an American actor and director, a Spike Lee and Coen brothers collaborator, Cannes Best Actor for Barton Fink, Caméra d'Or winner for Mac, Emmy winner for Monk, and Irving in Severance.
John Tuzo Wilson
John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) was a Canadian geophysicist at the University of Toronto who won worldwide acclaim for contributions to the theory of plate tectonics.
John Tyler
John Tyler (1790–1862), tenth U.S. president (1841–1845), first vice president to succeed a dead president, set the full-succession precedent, was expelled by the Whigs, annexed Texas, and died a Confederate congressman-elect.
John Tyler Bonner
John Tyler Bonner (1920–2019) was an American developmental biologist at Princeton University who pioneered the study of cellular slime molds and discovered their chemical attractant, acrasin.
John U. Bacon
John U. Bacon (born 1964) is an American journalist, sports commentator, and University of Michigan teacher, author of Michigan football books like Three and Out and Overtime, plus The Great Halifax Explosion and the 2025 NYT best seller The Gales of November.
John Uelses
John Uelses (born 14 July 1937), Berlin-born American Marine pole vaulter; first man to clear 16 feet (February 1962) and world record holder at 4.89 m, Santa Barbara, 31 March 1962, using a fiberglass pole.
John Ulric Nef (organic chemist)
John Ulric Nef (1862–1915) was a Swiss-born American organic chemist, professor at the University of Chicago from 1892, and pioneer of theoretical organic chemistry in the United States.
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (1932–2009), American novelist, poet, and critic, author of the Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy and two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, chronicler of middle-class American life.
John Urschel
John Urschel, Canadian-born mathematician and former Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman (2014–2017, fifth-round pick), retired at 26 after a JAMA CTE study, earned an MIT math PhD in 2021, and joined MIT's mathematics faculty in 2023.
John V (Patriarch of Constantinople)
John V was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from November 669 to August 675, between Thomas II and Constantine I, and is commemorated as a saint on August 18.
John V (Pope)
John V was the 82nd pope, reigning from 23 July 685 until his death on 2 August 686, the first consecrated without reference to the Byzantine emperor.
John V of Brittany
John V of Brittany (Jean le Sage, Yann ar Fur), 1389–1442, Montfort duke reigning 1399–1442 between John IV and Francis I; balanced France and England, survived the 1420 Penthièvre capture, created the francs-archers in 1425, and built the Breton state.
John V Palaiologos
John V Palaiologos (Ιωάννης Ε' Παλαιολόγος; 1332–1391) was a Byzantine emperor from 1341 to 1391 who became an Ottoman vassal and was the first emperor to seek western aid in person.
John V. Badding
John V. Badding was an American chemist and materials scientist, a professor at Pennsylvania State University from 1991, known for carbon nanothreads and microstructured optical fibers as high-pressure reactors.
John V. Breakwell
John V. Breakwell (1917–1991) was an American control theorist and Stanford professor of astronautics remembered as a key founder of astrodynamics, the science of spacecraft trajectories.
John V. Fahy
John V. Fahy (J.V. Fahy) is a physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco known for research on airway mucus and mucus plugs in asthma.
John V. Frangioni
John V. Frangioni is an American physician-scientist in radiology who invented the FLARE near-infrared surgical imaging systems and left Harvard in 2014 to found Curadel.
John V. Heymach
John V. Heymach is an American physician-scientist who chairs Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he led the AEGEAN durvalumab trial and the zongertinib trials.
John V. Moran
John V. Moran is the Gilbert S. Omenn Collegiate Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan, known for developing the cultured-cell assay for LINE-1 retrotransposons.
John V. Oyler
John V. Oyler is an American entrepreneur who co-founded BeiGene in 2010 and serves as Chairman and CEO of BeOne Medicines, the global oncology company formerly named BeiGene.
John V. Wehausen
John V. Wehausen (1913–2005) was an American applied mathematician and marine hydrodynamicist, professor at UC Berkeley, known for water-wave theory, ship hydrodynamics, and the influential 1960 survey Surface Waves.
John V. Weil
John V. Weil is an American respiratory physiologist and cardiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, known for research on ventilatory response to hypoxia.
John van der Oost
John van der Oost, born 1958, is a Dutch microbiologist who led bacterial genetics research at Wageningen University and is regarded as one of the founders of the CRISPR-Cas technique.
John Van Druten
John William Van Druten (1901–1957), Anglo-American playwright and director of small-cast drawing-room comedies: Young Woodley, The Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama, Bell Book and Candle, I Am a Camera, source of Cabaret.
John van Nuys Granger
John van Nuys Granger (1918–1997) was an American antenna and telecommunications expert who founded Granger Associates in 1956, led Stanford Research Institute's Airborne Systems Laboratory, and served as IEEE president in 1970.
John Van Reenen
John Van Reenen is a British applied microeconomist at the London School of Economics, known for the World Management Survey and for advising the UK Treasury on growth from 2024.
John Vanbrugh
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) was an English dramatist and Baroque architect who wrote the Restoration comedies The Relapse and The Provoked Wife and designed Blenheim Palace.
John Vandermeer
John H. Vandermeer is an American tropical ecologist and agroecologist at the University of Michigan, known for decades of fieldwork on coffee agroecosystems in Mexico and Puerto Rico.