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John Wetton
John Kenneth Wetton (1949-2017), English progressive rock bassist, singer, and songwriter of Family, King Crimson, U.K., and Asia; frontman of Asia's quadruple-platinum 1982 debut with "Heat of the Moment", six solo albums, and the Wetton/Downes Icon duo.
John Whaite
John Whaite (born 1989) is a British baker, author and TV presenter, winner of The Great British Bake Off series 3 in 2012 and Strictly 2021 runner-up in its first all-male pairing; author of five cookbooks, memoir Dancing on Eggshells, and Ruff Puff Brownies founder.
John Whalley
John Whalley is a Canadian economist at the University of Western Ontario, best known as a founder of applied general equilibrium modeling used to evaluate tax and trade policy.
John Wheatley
John Wheatley (1927–1986) was an American experimental physicist in low-temperature physics who built the first practical dilution refrigerator and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
John White (colonist and artist)
John White was an English watercolourist and cartographer who painted the earliest surviving European images of Indigenous Americans and governed the 1587 Roanoke "Lost Colony".
John Whitgift
John Whitgift (c. 1530–1604) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583 to 1604, enforcing subscription and conformity on the Elizabethan church through the Court of High Commission.
John Whitmire
John Whitmire, born 1949, is an American Democrat serving as Mayor of Houston since 2024, after 50 years in the Texas legislature, where he chaired the Criminal Justice Committee.
John Whyte (physiatrist)
John Whyte is an American physiatrist and experimental psychologist known for research on traumatic brain injury rehabilitation and disorders of consciousness, and founding director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute.
John Wick
John Wick is an American action film franchise starring Keanu Reeves as a retired hit man seeking revenge, created by Derek Kolstad and directed by Chad Stahelski; known for its assassin underworld with Continental hotels, gold coins, and the High Table, and for influencing 2010s action cinema.
John Wick (character)
John Wick is the fictional hitman played by Keanu Reeves in the John Wick film series (2014-2023) and Ballerina; a retired assassin, born Jardani Jovonovich, drawn back into a criminal underworld of gold coins, Continental hotels, and the High Table.
John Wick (film)
John Wick (film) is a 2014 American action thriller directed by Chad Stahelski and starring Keanu Reeves. It launched a franchise that has grossed over $1 billion worldwide.
John Wick (music)
"John Wick" is a 2021 amapiano single by South African producer De Mthuda featuring Sir Trill and Da Muziqal Chef, certified Double Platinum in 2021.
John Wick: Chapter 2
John Wick: Chapter 2 is a 2017 American action-thriller directed by Chad Stahelski, written by Derek Kolstad, starring Keanu Reeves, Common, and Laurence Fishburne. Released February 10, 2017; 122 minutes; $40 million budget; $174.3 million box office; centers on the marker blood oath and Wick's excommunicado.
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, also known as John Wick 3, is a 2019 American action thriller directed by Chad Stahelski and starring Keanu Reeves.
John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 4 is a 2023 American action film directed by Chad Stahelski and starring Keanu Reeves, the fourth entry in the John Wick series.
John Wilding
John P.H. Wilding is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Liverpool, known for leading large trials of GLP-1 obesity drugs, including semaglutide STEP 1.
John Wilkes
John Wilkes (1725/1726/1727–1797), English radical journalist and politician, MP for Aylesbury and Middlesex and Lord Mayor of London; his North Briton prosecution, Wilkes v Wood, and repeated expulsions advanced press freedom and electoral rights.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth, also known as J. Wilkes Booth, was an American stage actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.
John William Burgon
John William Burgon (1813–1888) was an English Anglican clergyman, Dean of Chichester from 1876, and textual critic who defended the Traditional Text of the New Testament.
John William Colenso
John William Colenso was the first Anglican bishop of Natal, consecrated in 1853, a Zulu linguist and biblical critic deposed for heresy in 1863 and later reinstated, who championed the Zulu king Cetshwayo.
John William Draper
John William Draper was an English-born American chemist, physician, and photographer who spent his career at New York University and took the first photograph of the Moon.
John William Goodby
John William Goodby is a British chemist known for synthesizing and classifying liquid crystals, elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2011 and awarded the Royal Medal in 2016.
John William Polidori
John William Polidori (1795-1821), English physician to Lord Byron, wrote The Vampyre (1819), first published under Byron's name; it created the aristocratic vampire Lord Ruthven and founded English vampire fiction.
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
John William Strutt, known as Lord Rayleigh, was a British physicist who won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering argon and wrote The Theory of Sound.
John William Theodore Youngs
John William Theodore Youngs, known as J. W. T. Youngs, was an American mathematician who co-solved the Heawood map-coloring conjecture with Gerhard Ringel in 1968.
John William Vessey Jr.
John William Vessey Jr. (1922–2016), American Army general and tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1982–1985) under Reagan; last WWII combat veteran chairman, later US envoy to Vietnam for POW/MIA affairs.
John William Waterhouse
John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) was a British painter known for images of women from classical myth and Victorian poetry, including The Lady of Shalott (1888).
John Williams
John Towner Williams (born 1932) is the American composer of Jaws, Star Wars, E.T., Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, and Harry Potter scores, a five-Oscar winner with 50-plus nominations, Boston Pops laureate conductor, and Steven Spielberg's collaborator on about 30 films.
John Williams (actor)
John Williams (1903–1983), English character actor of Dial M for Murder and Sabrina; Broadway debut 1924 in The Fake, 1953 Tony winner, later Hollywood and TV supporting player, died La Jolla, California.
John Williams (guitarist)
John Williams (guitarist) (born 1941, Melbourne) is an Australian classical guitarist, Segovia pupil, Grammy-winning duet partner of Julian Bream, and crossover artist; distinct from the film composer John Williams (born 1932).