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John W. Miles
John W. Miles (1920–2008) was an American applied mathematician and fluid mechanician at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, best known for his 1957 theory of how wind generates ocean surface waves.
John W. Morris
John W. Morris is a materials scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on strong steels, lead-free solders, and gum metal titanium alloys.
John W. Neal
John W. Neal (1865–1940) was an American businessman who co-founded the Cheek-Neal Coffee Company of Nashville, Tennessee, producer of Maxwell House coffee, sold to Postum in 1928.
John W. Newport
John W. Newport was an American cell biologist at UC San Diego who showed how frog embryos time development and identified the kinase driving mitosis.
John W. Olney
John W. Olney (died 2015) was an American psychiatrist and neuropathologist at Washington University in St. Louis who originated excitotoxicity, the death of nerve cells from excess glutamate.
John W. Olsen
John W. Olsen is an American Paleolithic archaeologist and Regents' Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, specializing in Pleistocene prehistory of Mongolia, Tibet, Siberia, and Central Asia; joint Mongolian-Russian-American expedition co-director, 2023 Order of the Polar Star recipient.
John W. R. Schwabe
John W. R. Schwabe, also published as John Schwabe, is a structural biologist and professor at the University of Leicester known for structures of nuclear receptors and HDAC complexes.
John W. Raymond
John W. "Jay" Raymond, U.S. Space Force general, first Chief of Space Operations (2019–2022) and first commander of re-established U.S. Space Command; built the sixth U.S. military branch, succeeded by B. Chance Saltzman.
John W. Rowe
John W. Rowe, also known as John Wallis Rowe, is an American geriatrician and health policy professor at Columbia, known for the concept of successful aging and for leading Aetna.
John W. Saunders, Jr.
John W. Saunders, Jr. was an American developmental biologist who discovered the apical ectodermal ridge and zone of polarizing activity, which organize vertebrate limb development.
John W. Sedwick
John W. Sedwick, born 1946, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Alaska, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
John W. Sleeman
John W. Sleeman is a Canadian brewing executive who relaunched the dormant family brewing name in Guelph, Ontario, in 1988 and built Sleeman Breweries into Canada's third-largest brewer, selling it to Japan's Sapporo in 2006.
John W. Strieder
John W. Strieder (1901–1993) was an American thoracic surgeon in Boston, the first there to limit his practice to thoracic surgery and the 52nd president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
John W. Suurballe
John W. Suurballe is a computer scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories, best known for his 1974 algorithm finding minimum-total-length node-disjoint paths between two network terminals.
John W. Thompson
John W. Thompson, born in 1949, is an American business executive who led Symantec as chief executive officer from 1999 to 2009 and chaired the Microsoft board from 2014 to 2021.
John W. Townsend Jr.
John W. Townsend Jr., known as Jack Townsend, was an American physicist who helped create the first weather satellites and directed NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
John W. Troxell
John Wayne Troxell, retired U.S. Army command sergeant major from Davenport, Iowa, was the third Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2015-2019), the senior NCO of the U.S. Armed Forces, with five combat tours.
John W. Turk, Jr. Power Plant
The John W. Turk, Jr. Power Plant is a 600-megawatt coal-fired power station near Fulton, Arkansas, owned by SWEPCO and the first ultra-supercritical unit in the United States.
John W. Valley
John W. Valley is an American isotope geochemist and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose zircon oxygen isotope work showed oceans existed over 4 billion years ago.
John W. Weisel
John W. Weisel is a biophysicist and professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for his 1985 fibrinogen model and work on clot mechanics.
John W.B. Hershey
John W.B. Hershey (1934–2023) was an American molecular biologist who worked out how translation, protein synthesis from messenger RNA, is initiated, at UC Davis from 1970 to 2004.
John Wahr
John Wahr was an American geophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder who used GRACE satellite gravity data to make the first estimates of polar ice-sheet loss.
John Wahren
John Wahren, born 1937 in Uppsala, is a Swedish clinical physiologist and professor emeritus at Karolinska Institutet, known for exercise fuel metabolism research and later C-peptide replacement therapy in diabetes.
John Waite
John Waite (born 1952, Lancashire, England) is an English rock singer-songwriter, lead singer of The Babys and Bad English. Known for the 1984 solo No. 1 "Missing You" and Bad English's 1989 hit "When I See You Smile."
John Walecka
John Walecka is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Redpoint Ventures in 1999, backed companies including Fortinet and Snowflake, and made nine Forbes Midas List appearances.
John Walker
Sir John Walker (born 1952) is a New Zealand middle-distance runner, first man under 3:50 for the mile (3:49.4, Göteborg 1975) and 1976 Olympic 1500m gold medallist; later first to 100 sub-4-minute miles, knighted 2009.
John Walker Lindh
John Walker Lindh, the 'American Taliban': California-born convert to Islam who fought with the Taliban in 2001, pleaded guilty in 2002 to supplying services to the Taliban, served 17 years, and was released in May 2019.
John Wall
John Wall (born 1990) is an American former NBA point guard, first overall pick of the 2010 draft by the Washington Wizards out of Kentucky; five-time All-Star, 18.7 points and 8.9 assists per game, retired August 2025.
John Wallace
John Wallace: name of two Olympians, US sailor John Donald Wallace (1903–1990, 6-metre Mystery, Berlin 1936) and Canadian rower John William Wallace (b. 1962, Barcelona 1992 eights gold).
John Walsh (Montana politician)
John E. Walsh (born 1960, Butte, Montana), Montana National Guard brigadier general and adjutant general, lieutenant governor 2013–2014, and appointed Democratic U.S. senator February 2014–January 2015; withdrew from the 2014 Senate race after Army War College plagiarism findings.