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John Zegrus
John Allen Kuchar Zegrus, 36, a passport fraudster arrested in Tokyo in 1960, is the real man behind the 'Man from Taured' urban legend; the mystery vanishing was a prison sentence.
John Zeleny
John Zeleny (1872–1951) was an American physicist at Minnesota and then Yale, president of the American Physical Society in 1940, known for ion mobilities in gases and pioneering electrospray experiments.
John Zhao
John Zhao, also known as Zhao Linghuan, is a Chinese private-equity investor who founded Beijing-based Hony Capital in 2003, backed by Legend Holdings, focusing on state-owned enterprise restructuring.
John Zhong
Zhong Peifeng (钟培峰), also known as John Zhong, is a Chinese-American semiconductor executive, born in 1963, who founded the Shanghai chip designer Amlogic in 2003 and serves as its chairman.
John Zonaras
John Zonaras (Ἰωάννης Ζωναρᾶς) was a Byzantine canonist, chronicler, and monk of the twelfth century who wrote the Epitome of Histories, a universal chronicle from the Creation to 1118.
John Zorn
John Zorn (born 1953, New York City) is an American avant-garde composer and alto saxophonist of the downtown scene; creator of Naked City, Masada, Cobra, the Tzadik label, and The Stone, and a 2006 MacArthur Fellow.
John-Arne Røttingen
John-Arne Røttingen is a Norwegian physician, epidemiologist, and health diplomat who has served as chief executive of Wellcome since January 2024. He led the WHO Solidarity Trial for Covid-19 and helped found CEPI.
John-Paul Clarke
John-Paul Clarke is an aerospace engineer and professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for the continuous descent arrival procedure, used at 50 major airports.
John-Paul Lavoisier
John-Paul Lavoisier (John Paul Seponski, born 1980) is an American soap opera actor known as Rex Balsom on One Life to Live (2002–2012) and Philip Kiriakis on Days of Our Lives (2015–2026).
John, Duke of Berry
John, Duke of Berry (Jean de France, duc de Berry, 1340–1416), Valois prince, son of John II and brother of Charles V, regent of France and one of the greatest medieval art patrons, commissioner of the Très Riches Heures.
John, King of England
John Lackland, King of England 1199-1216, last Angevin king; lost Normandy in 1204, defeated at Bouvines 1214, sealed Magna Carta at Runnymede 15 June 1215, died October 1216.
Johnatan Aljadeff
Johnatan (Yonatan) Aljadeff is a computational neuroscientist who has been on the UC San Diego neurobiology faculty since 2020, applying dynamical systems and information theory to synaptic plasticity and learning.
Johnathan Abram
Johnathan Abram is an American professional football safety who was drafted 27th overall by the Oakland Raiders in 2019 after playing at Mississippi State, later playing for the Packers, Seahawks, and Saints.
Johnathan Newman
Johnathan Newman is an American Republican politician representing Ohio's 80th House district, covering Miami and southern Darke counties, and the founder of Koinos Church in Troy.
Johnathan R. Whetstine
Johnathan R. Whetstine is a cancer epigenetics researcher who directs the Cancer Epigenetics Institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center and helped discover JmjC histone demethylases.
Johnathan Thurston
Johnathan Thurston (JT, born 1983, Brisbane) is an Australian rugby league halfback, NRL Hall of Fame 2024 inductee, record four-time Dally M Medallist, and 2015 Cowboys premiership golden-point hero.
Johnathon Schaech
Johnathon Schaech (born 1969, Edgewood, Maryland) is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for That Thing You Do!, How to Make an American Quilt, Prom Night, Jonah Hex, and starring in Blue Ridge as Sheriff Justin Wise.
Johnette Napolitano
Johnette Napolitano (born 1957, Hollywood) is the American singer, bassist, and songwriter who led Concrete Blonde, known for the gold album Bloodletting and the hit "Joey," plus solo albums and film soundtrack work.
JohnF. Wilkinson
John Frederick Wilkinson (1897–1998) was a British physician and haematologist who built the clinical hematology service at Manchester Royal Infirmary and helped found hematology in Britain.
Johnlock
Johnlock is the fandom ship name (John + Sherlock) for a romantic pairing of John Watson and Sherlock Holmes in BBC's Sherlock; the fandom's most popular ship, center of the TJLC theory and queerbaiting debate.
Johnnie (robot)
Johnnie was an autonomous biped walking robot developed between 1998 and 2003 at the Technical University of Munich, achieving a human-like gait and walking speeds up to 2.4 km/h.
Johnnie B. Rawlinson
Johnnie B. Rawlinson, born 1952, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2000, appointed by President Bill Clinton.
Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. (1937-2005), Los Angeles trial lawyer and civil-rights advocate, lead defense attorney in O.J. Simpson's 1995 murder trial, famous for "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."
Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer, born 1915)
Johnnie Johnson (James Edgar Johnson, 1915–2001), Britain's top-scoring Second World War fighter ace, flew Spitfires in over 1,000 missions, later rose to Air Vice-Marshal and wrote Wing Leader.
Johnnie Ray
Johnnie Ray (John Alvin Ray, 1927–1990), Oregon-born American singer and pianist, early-1950s pop superstar behind "Cry" and "The Little White Cloud That Cried"; emotionally explosive performances and partial deafness made him a precursor of rock and roll who influenced Elvis Presley.
Johnnie Taylor
Johnnie Harrison Taylor (1934-2000), the "Philosopher of Soul," was an American gospel-to-soul-to-blues singer who replaced Sam Cooke in the Soul Stirrers, starred at Stax with "Who's Making Love" (1968), and recorded "Disco Lady" (1976), the first RIAA platinum-certified single.
Johnnie To (杜琪峰)
Johnnie To (杜琪峯, born 1955) is a Hong Kong film director and producer, co-founder of Milkyway Image with Wai Ka-fai, known for The Mission, PTU, Election, Exiled, and Drug War, with three Hong Kong Film Awards and three Golden Horse Best Director awards.
Johnnie Walker
Johnnie Walker is a brand of blended Scotch whisky owned by Diageo, founded as a Kilmarnock grocery in 1820 by John Walker and sold in more than 180 countries.
Johnnie Walker (DJ)
Johnnie Walker (Peter Waters Dingley, 1945-2024), British radio DJ who began on pirate stations Swinging Radio England and Radio Caroline in 1966, joined BBC Radio 1 in 1969, and hosted Radio 2's Sounds of the 70s and Rock Show.
Johnno
Johnno is the first novel by the Australian writer David Malouf, published in 1975. It follows the friendship between Dante and the reckless Johnno from schooldays in wartime Brisbane to adult years abroad.