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Jonathan Alwyn
Jonathan Alwyn (1930-2021) was a British television director and producer, son of composer William Alwyn, known for devising Mystery and Imagination (1966-70) and directing episodes of The Avengers, Doomwatch, and Enemy at the Door.
Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames (born 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and TV writer, author of The Extra Man, Wake Up, Sir!, and You Were Never Really Here, and creator of HBO's Bored to Death and Starz's Blunt Talk.
Jonathan and Charlotte
Jonathan and Charlotte: English classical crossover duo of Jonathan Antoine and Charlotte Jaconelli, 2012 Britain's Got Talent runners-up singing 'The Prayer', with UK top-five albums Together and Perhaps Love before their amicable 2014 split into solo careers.
Jonathan and Martha Kent
Jonathan and Martha Kent, Ma and Pa Kent, are Superman's adoptive farmer parents of Smallville, Kansas, who found and named the infant Kal-El; created in 1938–1939 Superman comics, killed off and revived across continuity eras, and portrayed on screen from Phyllis Thaxter to Neva Howell.
Jonathan Anderson (fashion designer)
Jonathan Anderson (born 1984, Magherafelt, Northern Ireland) is the fashion designer behind JW Anderson, Loewe's creative director 2013–2025, and Dior's first creative director overseeing both women's and men's collections, plus an ongoing Uniqlo collaboration.
Jonathan Andic
Jonathan Andic, full name Jonathan Andic Raig, is a Spanish businessman, eldest son of Mango founder Isak Andic, who led Mango Man and became vice-chairman in 2025.
Jonathan Antoine
Jonathan Antoine, English classical crossover tenor born 1995 in Essex; rose to fame as runner-up on Britain's Got Talent 2012 with duo Jonathan & Charlotte, then built a solo career of chart-topping classical albums including Tenore and Speaking to You.
Jonathan Ashmore
Jonathan Ashmore, born in 1948, is a neuroscientist and the Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics at University College London, known for his work on cochlear outer hair cells and the cochlear amplifier.
Jonathan Asp Jensen
Jonathan Asp Jensen (born 2006, Gauerslund, Denmark) is a Danish attacking midfielder. Midtjylland academy product, Bayern Munich youth player with one Bundesliga appearance, loaned to Grasshopper Zürich, signed by Deportivo La Coruña in July 2026 for about €6 million.
Jonathan B. Chaires
Jonathan B. Chaires, also published as Jonathan Chaires, is an American biophysical chemist at the University of Louisville known for research on nucleic acids, G-quadruplexes, and drug-DNA interactions.
Jonathan B. Losos
Jonathan B. Losos is an American evolutionary biologist and herpetologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his studies of adaptive radiation and convergent evolution in Caribbean Anolis lizards.
Jonathan B. Rothbard
Jonathan B. Rothbard is an American organic chemist and immunologist at Stanford University, known for a 1988 model of T-cell antigen recognition and peptide drug delivery.
Jonathan Bailey
Jonathan Bailey (born 1988, Oxfordshire) is an English actor, also called Jonny Bailey, known for Anthony in Bridgerton, the Olivier-winning Jamie in Company, Tim Laughlin in Fellow Travelers, and Fiyero in Wicked.
Jonathan Bamber
Jonathan L. Bamber is an Earth observation scientist and professor at the University of Bristol who uses satellite data to study the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets and sea-level rise.
Jonathan Banks
Jonathan Ray Banks (born 1947, Washington, D.C.) is an American character actor known as Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and Frank McPike in Wiseguy; six-time Emmy nominee.
Jonathan Barasch
Jonathan M. Barasch is a physician-scientist and nephrologist at Columbia University, known for identifying leukemia inhibitory factor in kidney development and establishing NGAL as an early marker of acute kidney injury.
Jonathan Barratt
Jonathan Barratt is a British physician-scientist and the Mayer Professor of Renal Medicine at the University of Leicester, known for research and international trials on IgA nephropathy.
Jonathan Barrett
Jonathan Barrett (born 1976) is a British quantum information scientist at the University of Oxford, known for the PBR theorem on the reality of the quantum state.
Jonathan Baumbach
Jonathan Baumbach (1933–2019), American experimental novelist, film critic, and Brooklyn College professor; co-founded the Fiction Collective/FC2 with Peter Spielberg; author of Reruns, B, and Dreams of Molly; father of filmmaker Noah Baumbach.
Jonathan Belof
Jonathan Lewis Belof is a physicist and physical chemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who studies phase transitions and equations of state at extreme pressures.
Jonathan Bennett (actor)
Jonathan Bennett (born 1981) is an American actor known as Aaron Samuels in Mean Girls (2004), a Hallmark holiday-movie leading man behind the network's first LGBTQ-led films, host of Halloween Wars, and a General Hospital cast member.
Jonathan Biabiany
Jonathan Ludovic Biabiany (born 1988, Paris) is a French right winger from a Guadeloupean family; Inter Milan youth product, 2010 FIFA Club World Cup final scorer, later Parma, San Fernando CD, Antequera CF, and UD San Pedro.
Jonathan Blow
Jonathan Blow, American indie game designer behind Braid (2008) and The Witness (2016), studio Thekla; known for time-manipulation and line-drawing puzzle games, anti-conventional design philosophy, and the Jai programming language.
Jonathan Borwein
Jonathan Michael Borwein (1951–2016) was a mathematician known as "Dr Pi" who, with his brother Peter, devised fast algorithms used in record computations of π.
Jonathan Brandis
Jonathan Brandis (1976-2003), American actor and teen idol, played Lucas Wolenczak on NBC's seaQuest DSV and starred in The NeverEnding Story II, Ladybugs, and Sidekicks; died by suicide at 27.
Jonathan Brash
Jonathan Brash is the British Labour MP for Hartlepool, elected on 4 July 2024 with 16,414 votes (46.2%) and a 7,698 majority, regaining the seat from Conservative Jill Mortimer; formerly a Hartlepool borough councillor.
Jonathan Brian Perlin
Jonathan Brian Perlin is an American physician and the seventh President and CEO of the Joint Commission enterprise since 2022, previously Under Secretary for Health at the VA.
Jonathan Brownlee
Jonathan (Jonny) Brownlee, born 1990 in Leeds, British triathlete; three Olympic medals (bronze London 2012, silver Rio 2016, mixed relay gold Tokyo 2020), 2012 World Triathlon Champion; retired September 2026.
Jonathan Bullard
Jonathan Bullard, born 1993 in Shelby, NC, is an NFL defensive end (6-3, 290 lb) drafted 72nd overall by Chicago in 2016 out of Florida; seven teams including Vikings, Saints, and Cowboys, 134 games, 250 tackles, 7.0 sacks.
Jonathan Bush
Jonathan Bush is an American healthcare-technology entrepreneur who co-founded athenahealth in 1997, was ousted as CEO in 2018, founded Zus Health, and entered Maine's 2025 governor's race.