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John Williams (offensive lineman, born 2002)
John Jeremy Williams (born 2002) is a Green Bay Packers offensive lineman, drafted No. 250 overall in 2025 from Cincinnati, where he made 24 straight left tackle starts; missed all of 2025 on PUP with a back injury.
John Williams Calkin
John Williams Calkin (1909–1964) was an American mathematician whose 1941 paper on ideals of bounded operators founded operator ideal theory and introduced the quotient algebra called the Calkin algebra.
John Williams discography
John Williams discography: recorded output of the American film composer John Williams (born 1932), covering soundtrack albums for over 100 films, Boston Pops conductor albums (1980-93), and concert-work recordings, distinct from classical guitarist John Williams (born 1941).
John Williamson (biochemist)
John Williamson was a biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania's Johnson Research Foundation known for work on metabolic control in the heart and liver and for NMR studies of intact, metabolizing cells and organs.
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), Restoration courtier, poet, and satirist under Charles II; leader of the libertine "Merry Gang," author of A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind, later converted through Gilbert Burnet; only three poems printed in his lifetime, canon fixed by Vieth's 1968 edition.
John Winchester (Supernatural)
John Eric Winchester is the father of Sam and Dean in Supernatural (2005–2020), played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan; a Marine-turned-hunter who trades his soul to Azazel, distinct from The Winchesters prequel version.
John Winthrop
John Winthrop (1588-1649), English Puritan lawyer and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, led the 1630 Arbella migration, wrote the 'city upon a hill' sermon, and banished dissenters.
John Winthrop Platner
John Winthrop Platner (1865–1921) was an American Congregational clergyman and church historian who taught at Harvard and Andover, edited The Religious History of New England (1917), and served as Andover's dean.
John Wishart (statistician)
John Wishart (1898–1956) was a Scottish agricultural statistician who derived the Wishart distribution in 1928, worked at Rothamsted and Cambridge, and wrote three books on field experimentation.
John Wistar Simpson
John Wistar Simpson (1914–2007) was an American electrical and nuclear engineer who led the Westinghouse teams behind the USS Nautilus reactor and the Shippingport nuclear power station.
John Witherspoon
John Witherspoon (1723–1794) was a Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and Calvinist theologian who became Princeton's sixth president in 1768 and, as a Continental Congress delegate, signed the Declaration of Independence.
John Witherspoon (actor)
John Witherspoon (John Weatherspoon, 1942-2019), Detroit-born American comedian and actor, Willie Jones in the Friday films, Pops on The Wayans Bros., voice of Granddad on The Boondocks.
John Wojtowicz
John Stanley Wojtowicz, also known as Littlejohn Basso, was the American bank robber whose 1972 Brooklyn Chase Manhattan holdup to fund Elizabeth Eden's surgery inspired Dog Day Afternoon; he died of cancer in 2006.
John Wolford
John Wolford (born 1995, Dallas) is an American quarterback from Wake Forest who led the AAF in touchdown passes with the Arizona Hotshots, started four NFL games for the Rams (2-2), and later served on Buccaneers, Panthers, Jaguars, and Vikings rosters.
John Woo (吴宇森)
John Woo (吳宇森, born 1946, Guangzhou) is a Hong Kong action film director, creator of heroic bloodshed via A Better Tomorrow (1986), The Killer, and Hard Boiled, later a Hollywood director of Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II.
John Wood (English actor)
John Lamin Wood (1930–2011) was an English actor known for Shakespearean roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and for winning a 1976 Tony Award for Tom Stoppard's Travesties.
John Wooden
John Wooden (1910–2010), the Wizard of Westwood, was a Purdue All-American and UCLA coach who won a record 10 NCAA basketball titles, including seven straight, with an 88-game win streak and the Pyramid of Success.
John Woodhouse (seismologist)
John H. Woodhouse is a seismologist and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford, known for mapping the Earth's interior in three dimensions, discovering inner-core anisotropy, and the Centroid Moment Tensor technique.
John Woodland Hastings
John Woodland Hastings, known as Woody Hastings, was an American biochemist at Harvard who pioneered bioluminescence research and discovered bacterial autoinduction, later called quorum sensing.
John Woodruff
John Youie "Long John" Woodruff (1915-2007), American middle-distance runner; won the 1936 Berlin Olympic 800 m gold in 1:52.9 by stopping mid-race to escape a box and restarting in lane three; later a US Army lieutenant colonel.
John Worboys
John Worboys, now John Radford, the black-cab rapist: London taxi driver convicted in 2009 of 19 sexual offences against 12 women, linked to over 105 assaults; his 2018 parole release was quashed and he received two life sentences in 2019.
John Wrathall
John James Wrathall (1913–1978), Rhodesian politician, second and last white President of Rhodesia 1976–1978; earlier its longest serving finance minister who circumvented UN sanctions. Not the South Australian author John Wrathall Bull or the NZ footballer.
John Wrench
John Wrench was an American mathematician and numerical analyst for the U.S. Navy, known for computing π to 100,265 decimal places with Daniel Shanks in 1961.
John Writer
John Henry (Jack) Writer, American sport shooter born 1944 in Chicago; Olympic gold in small-bore rifle three positions at Munich 1972 (world record 1,166) and silver at Mexico City 1968; West Virginia University's first Olympian.
John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe (Wiclif) was an English Oxford theologian and royal clerk, born about 1330, known for Church reform doctrines and posthumously condemned at Constance in 1415.
John Wyn Owen
John Wyn Owen (1942–2020) was a Welsh public health leader, first director of NHS Wales, later Director-General of NSW Health and secretary of the Nuffield Trust.
John Wyndham
John Wyndham (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris), 1903–1969, English science fiction author of The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids, and The Midwich Cuckoos; labelled master of the cosy catastrophe.
John X
John X was pope from 914 to 928, a former archbishop of Ravenna remembered for personally leading the army that destroyed the Saracen stronghold on the Garigliano.
John X Camateros
John X Camateros (Ἰωάννης Καματηρός) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1198 to 1206, spanning the Fourth Crusade's capture of the city in 1204; he died in exile at Didymoteichon.
John XI
John XI was the 125th pope, reigning from 931 to 936, made pope in his early twenties by his mother Marozia and later confined by his brother Alberic II.