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John Walsh (television host)
John Walsh (born 1945, Auburn, New York), American TV host and victims' advocate, creator and longtime host of America's Most Wanted; father of murdered child Adam Walsh, co-founder of NCMEC, and driving force behind U.S. missing-children legislation.
John Wang (materials scientist)
John Wang is a materials scientist and professor at the National University of Singapore, where he leads the Advanced Ceramics Laboratory and studies functional and energy materials.
John Warner
John W. Warner III (1927-2021), secretary of the navy 1972-1974 and five-term Republican U.S. senator from Virginia 1979-2009, not to be confused with Senator Mark Warner, his successor and no relation.
John Warner (scientist)
John Christian Warner was an American chemist who coordinated Manhattan Project plutonium research and served as president of Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1950 to 1965.
John Warnock
John Warnock (1940–2023) was an American computer scientist who invented the Warnock algorithm for hidden-surface graphics, co-founded Adobe Systems, and led the creation of PostScript and PDF.
John Washington
John Washington (1632–1677) was an English-born Virginia planter, trader, and officeholder who settled in Westmoreland County in the 1650s and was the great-grandfather of George Washington.
John Waterlow
John Waterlow (1916–2010) was a British physiologist and nutrition scientist who classified childhood malnutrition, founded Jamaica's Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982.
John Waters
John Waters (born 1946, Baltimore) is the American filmmaker, writer, and artist nicknamed the Pope of Trash, creator of Pink Flamingos (1972), the Trash Trilogy, and Hairspray (1988), and leader of the Dreamlanders ensemble.
John Waters (actor)
John Waters (born 1948, London) is an English-born Australian actor, singer and musician, not the Baltimore filmmaker of the same name. Known for Rush, Play School (1972–1991), Offspring, All Saints, the 1988 AFI Award for Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and Lennon: Through a Glass Onion.
John Waters (columnist)
John Waters (born 1955, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon) is an Irish columnist and author, formerly of Hot Press, Magill and The Irish Times (column 1990-2014), later a First Things and Substack writer and anti-establishment election candidate.
John Wayne
John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison, 1907-1979), American film star nicknamed the Duke, defined the movie Western from Stagecoach to True Grit, won the 1969 Best Actor Oscar, and remains polarizing for his 1971 Playboy remarks.
John Wayne Airport
John Wayne Airport, also known as Orange County Airport, is the only commercial airport in Orange County, California, serving about 11 million passengers a year.
John Wayne filmography
The John Wayne filmography records the screen appearances of American actor John Wayne, from late-1920s silent films to The Shootist (1976), including about 180 roles, 83 of them Westerns.
John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy (1942–1994), the Killer Clown, murdered at least 33 young men and boys near Chicago, 1972–1978, was convicted in 1980, executed in 1994; five victims remain unidentified.
John Wayne Parr
John Wayne Parr (born 1976), "The Gunslinger", is a retired Australian Muay Thai fighter, kickboxer, and boxer from Queensland; 10-time world champion, first Australian at Lumpinee Stadium, Boonchu Gym founder, retired March 2022 at ONE X.
John Webster
John Webster (c.1580–c.1634) was a Jacobean English dramatist, son of a London coach maker, author of The White Devil (1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (c.1614), often ranked second only to Shakespeare among Jacobean tragedians.
John Wells (filmmaker)
John Marcum Wells (born 1956, Alexandria, Virginia) is an American TV and film producer, writer, and director, showrunner of ER, The West Wing, Third Watch, Southland, and Shameless, founder of John Wells Productions at Warner Bros., and executive producer of the Emmy-winning The Pitt.
John Wells (satirist)
John Campbell Wells (1936–1998), English satirist, actor and writer; original Private Eye contributor behind Mrs Wilson's Diary and Dear Bill, performer of Denis Thatcher, and co-author of A Melon For Ecstasy and Bernstein's Candide narration. Distinct from the American TV producer John Wells.
John Wentworth Clawson
John Wentworth Clawson (1881–1964) was a Canadian-born geometer who taught at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania from 1907 to 1952 and is known for the Clawson point in triangle geometry.
John Wesley
John Wesley (1703–1791) was an Anglican priest who led the evangelical revival that became Methodism, organizing societies, class meetings, and itinerant preaching after his 1738 Aldersgate conversion experience.
John Wesley Etheridge
John Wesley Etheridge (1804–1866) was an English Wesleyan Methodist minister and self-educated orientalist scholar who translated the Peshitta Syriac Gospels and the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel into English.
John Wesley Hardin
John Wesley Hardin was an American outlaw and gunfighter of Reconstruction-era Texas who claimed 42 kills and was shot dead in an El Paso saloon in 1895.
John Wesley Harding
John Wesley Harding: Bob Dylan's eighth studio album, released December 27, 1967 on Columbia, recorded in Nashville; also the stage name of British singer-songwriter Wesley Stace (born 1965).
John Wesley Judd
John Wesley Judd (1840–1916) was a British geologist and petrographer who established the volcanic origin of the Hebridean lava plateaus and taught at the Royal School of Mines.
John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell was an American geologist and explorer who led the 1869 Colorado River expedition through the Grand Canyon and directed the U.S. Geological Survey.
John Wesley Shipp
John Wesley Shipp (born 1955, Norfolk, Virginia) is an American actor known as Barry Allen in The Flash (1990), Mitch Leery on Dawson's Creek, two-time Daytime Emmy winner, and Henry Allen/Jay Garrick on The Flash (2014–2023).
John Wesley Young
John Wesley Young (1879–1932) was an American mathematician who, with Oswald Veblen, wrote the first independent axioms and treatise on projective geometry and led American secondary-school mathematics reform.
John West Wells
John West Wells (1907–1994) was an American paleontologist and authority on fossil and modern corals, a Cornell professor known for using coral growth lines to show Earth's rotation is slowing.
John Westlake (law scholar)
John Westlake (1828–1913) was an English jurist who held the Whewell chair of international law at Cambridge from 1888 to 1908 and co-founded the Institut de Droit International.
John Westlake and the colonial critique of international law
John Westlake (1828–1913), Cambridge Whewell Professor and Hague arbitrator, whose racialized, civilizational account of international law is now a central target of TWAIL and postcolonial critique.