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Jonas Edman
Jonas Edman (born 1967, Linköping), Swedish rifle shooter, Jönköpings SKG; Olympic gold in 50 m rifle prone at Sydney 2000 with 701.3, plus 1998 world team gold, later sport director and coach of Swedish shooting.
Jonas Eliasson
Jonas Eliasson is a Swedish transport researcher and Director of Transport Access at the Swedish National Transport Administration, best known for designing the Stockholm congestion tax.
Jonas Esticado
Jonas Esticado, full name Jonas Mikael Costa Xavier, is a Brazilian forró singer from Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, known for the 2019 hit "Investe em Mim".
Jonas F. Ludvigsson
Jonas F. Ludvigsson is a Swedish pediatrician and clinical epidemiologist, professor at Karolinska Institutet, known for register-based research on celiac disease and the Oslo definitions.
Jonas Frisén
Jonas Frisén is a Swedish stem cell researcher and professor at Karolinska Institutet known for dating human cells by bomb-test carbon-14 and for showing the adult brain forms new neurons.
Jonas Gahr Støre
Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian Labour Party politician, Prime Minister of Norway since 14 October 2021 and party leader since 2014; previously foreign minister 2005–2012, health minister 2012–2013, WHO chief of staff, and Norwegian Red Cross Secretary General.
Jonás Gutiérrez
Jonás Gutiérrez (El Galgo), Argentine winger born 1983; Vélez Sársfield, Mallorca, Newcastle United 2008-2015, 2010 World Cup. Overcame testicular cancer, scored to keep Newcastle up in 2015, won discrimination case, retired 2021.
Jonas H. Ellenberg
Jonas H. Ellenberg is an American biostatistician, emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who led the 1986 study Antecedents of Cerebral Palsy and presided over the American Statistical Association in 1999.
Jónas Hallgrímsson
Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807–1845) was an Icelandic poet and natural scientist who co-founded the journal Fjölnir and is regarded as the father of Icelandic Romanticism and one of Iceland's greatest poets.
Jonas Harder
Jonas Harder, born 2005 in Florence, is an Italian central midfielder who came through Fiorentina, spent 2025/26 on loan at Padova in Serie B, and joined FC Basel in July 2026 for €2 million.
Jonas Hector
Jonas Hector, German footballer (born 1990, Saarbrücken), one-club left back and defensive midfielder for 1. FC Köln (2010-2023, 444 games) and 43-cap Germany international; scored the winning penalty against Italy at EURO 2016.
Jonas Hofmann
Jonas Hofmann, German midfielder born 1992 in Heidelberg; Borussia Dortmund, Gladbach, and Bayer 04 Leverkusen player; 2024 German champion; Germany international.
Jonas Jerebko
Jonas Jerebko, Swedish power forward born 1987 in Kinna; 2009 second-round pick (39th) of Detroit. Nine NBA seasons with Pistons, Celtics, Jazz, Warriors; All-Rookie Second Team; 2019 Finals with Golden State.
Jonas Kahnwald
Jonas Kahnwald, protagonist of Netflix's German time-travel thriller Dark, played by Louis Hofmann; his older selves are The Stranger and Adam, 33 years apart.
Jonas Kaufmann
Jonas Kaufmann (born 1969, Munich) is a German tenor of the Met, Bayreuth, La Scala, and Vienna State Opera, known for a dark-toned voice across Italian, French, and German repertoire; intendant of Tiroler Festspiele Erl since 2024.
Jonas Kibelbek
Jonas Kibelbek is a number theorist who received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 2011 and coauthored "Supercongruences and Complex Multiplication," published in the Journal of Number Theory in 2016.
Jónás könyve
Jónás könyve (The Book of Jonah) is a 1938 narrative poem by Hungarian poet Babits Mihály retelling the biblical Jonah story as a plea for intellectuals to speak out.
Jonas Kubilius
Jonas Kubilius (1921–2011) was a Lithuanian mathematician who founded probabilistic number theory, created the Kubilius model, and led Vilnius University as rector for over three decades.
Jonas Lie
Jonas Lie, full name Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie (1833–1908), was a Norwegian novelist and playwright, one of the four greats of nineteenth-century Norwegian literature alongside Ibsen, Bjørnson, and Kielland.
Jonas Meckling
Jonas Meckling is a political scientist and professor of energy and environmental policy at UC Berkeley, known for the 2017 concept of policy sequencing toward decarbonization and the book Carbon Coalitions.
Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) was a Lithuanian-born American poet, filmmaker, and critic often called the godfather of American avant-garde cinema, and a pioneer of the diary film.
Jonas Nay
Jonas Nay (born 1990, Lübeck) is a German actor and musician, star of Deutschland 83/86/89 as spy Martin Rauch, award-winning for Homevideo, also composer and member of the band Pudeldame.
Jonas Reckermann
Jonas Reckermann, German beach volleyball player (born 1979, Rheine), Olympic gold medalist London 2012 and 2009 world champion with Julius Brink; retired 2012-13 with back problems; later teacher and TV commentator.
Jonas Rieke
Jonas Rieke is a business graduate who co-founded Personio, the Munich-based HR software company for small and mid-sized businesses, and has served as its Chief Operations Officer since June 2016.
Jonas Ries
Jonas Ries is a German biophysicist who works on super-resolution microscopy and clathrin-mediated endocytosis, and has been a professor at the University of Vienna since 2023.
Jonas Ruyter
Jonas Ruyter (born 1991) is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded DataSnipper, an Amsterdam-based audit automation software company, in 2017 with Maarten Alblas and Kai Bakker.
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk (1914–1995), American virologist who developed the first safe polio vaccine, a killed-virus (IPV) formulation announced safe and 90% effective on April 12, 1955 after a 1.8-million-child trial; he never patented it and founded the Salk Institute.
Jonas Sanker
Jonas Sanker, New Orleans Saints safety drafted 93rd overall in 2025 from Virginia; two-time first-team All-ACC, ESPN All-Rookie after 78 tackles and two interceptions as a rookie.
Jonas Savimbi
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (1934–2002), Angolan founder and leader of UNITA from 1966, fought Portuguese rule and then the MPLA in a Cold War-backed civil war, lost the 1992 election, returned to war, and was killed in 2002.
Jonas Valančiūnas
Jonas Valančiūnas, Lithuanian center born 1992, drafted fifth overall in 2011; 14 NBA seasons with Toronto, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, Sacramento, and Denver before joining Zalgiris Kaunas in 2026.